of the latest “Plein Air Paint/sketch out in Windsor, Ontario“. I’ve been trying to join this group of folks all summer and I finally made it but it’s no longer summer and there was no one there by the time I arrived.
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Back in April DD2 played in a concert at The Armouries. The acoustics of that stalwart building were surprisingly grand – at least it was surprising to me.The Walkerville Centre for Creative Arts (WCCA), along an ensemble from Holy Names High School were joined by a string section of the Windsor Symphony Orchestra and completed by choral teams from the schools. It was an excellent concert fittingly held on April 9th, the 93rd anniversary of the launch of The Battle of Vimy Ridge, a battle in which many Canadians from Windsor and Essex county took part.
On a Spring day when one could happily bike and sketch outside (unlike today’s blistering “feels like 102F”) I sat in a little driveway that is now the entry to the new weekend Downtown Farmer’s Market to draw The Armouries. I did a rough sketch and then settled into this one which took the better part of two hours. By the end the light had changed significantly and my bum was über sore.
I used my Pentel Brush Pen along with Koi watercolour paints on a Moleskine Sketchbook in landscape format. {thrive!}
A parade, biking, sketching, coffee, family that was my Canada Day.Oddly, it’s only the second time in a decade that I’ve made the parade in Windsor. Last time the kids were, well, kids and not young adults. DW and I biked to Glenngary and Wyandotte, the western edge and end location of the parade. While waiting for the show to begin I did a little quick sketching, people staking their turf for a good view and or generally free ranging everywhere. We bailed out ahead of the Mayor arriving, who by crowd appreciation came a decided also-ran to the Stanley Cup.
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