Good bye Newfoundland!

In a few hours I will catch my flight to London (there is a direct flight just 6 hours!) and then Frankfurt. So I had to said good by to Newfoundland. These two watercolors I did in Bay Roberts, one of the many beautiful small towns in Newfoundland (pronounced as in understand). The artist Peter Jackson, has a small studio there, and I spent really nice moments helping him to renovate his house (the blue house) and painting outdoors, specially now that the weather is so good! The best thing about his studio is that you don't have to move far in order to finds things to paint. Both houses I painted seating in his studio. His house on the right and the neighbours house in front.

Peter's house is bright blue. The roster is very important to check the weather. If the wind comes from the see it means bad weather.

For this one I got inspired by one painting from Fred Lynch. He wrote how interesting is the space in between houses.

Delight: Bay Robert's View

I paint urban landscapes, I don't paint nature. However last time that I was in Bay Roberts standing on a hill facing the see, surrounded by the amazing colors of lichen growing between the rock I have the urge painted it, at least I gave it a try, I felt challanged to reproduced this imposible colors...
First I did a sketch in my moleskine, that I alredy posted in my blog. But the next day I have to come back again to do a bigger watercolor. Gosh! I love painting outdooors!

Bay Roberts

Around the coast in Bay Roberts you would find many of this small sheds. I did the watercolor on site. I always start with the shadows in case the weather changes or the sun moves.

Bay Roberts

I went with a friend to Bay Roberts, NL. Newfoundland keeps surprising me with its landscape. I am urbansketcher! I don't do landscape! but the colors, the colors are fantastics; rock and water everywhere and the vegetation that seems to run free everywhere.

We stop to eat at a restaurant called Mad Rocks, it is on the way to the so called mad rocks. As always in Newfoundland the people in the restaurant were very nice.