While I was out at Nordegg in late March and early April, I started work on another watercolor painting. I've decided that referring to these works as watercolors, is not really accurate. They are actually colorized sketches, and I will be referring to them in that way in the future. I start by sketching a rough outline of the image, working off one of my photographs. Then I use watercolor paints to colorize the different components within the image. Once I have done that, I move on to a combination of pencil and ink to detail the image. The watercolor part looks pretty vague and abstract but once I add all the detail by sketching, then the image comes to life.
So this one is a third in my series on old hotels from the Beer Parlour Project. This is the Fife Lake Hotel in Fife Lake Saskatchewan. My colleague Chris and I visited there in June of 2024. These snapshots below show the progression of first laying out the image and then adding the various areas of color with watercolor paints. In a future blog post I will outline the process of detailing everything in with pencil and ink.
Chris is encouraging me to include these works on our Beer Parlour Project website, and I think I will eventually do that. I just want to wait until I have at least four or five of them completed, and then I will scan and include them. Going forward from there I can add them one by one as I complete more.
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