Me with my "Promenade en Camargue, Provence", 2021

Here I am again, posing beside my watercolour at the Vernissage or Opening night of a city-wide Art Contest at the Montréal Library in December 2021. I painted this scene - of flamingos taking a stroll at dawn in the Camargue nature preserve in Provence - from a photo I'd taken more than twenty years earlier.
This 11 x 15" painting was created during the pandemic lockdown, with a goal of eliciting feelings of calm, serenity, and warmth. The sky alone took seven successive washes of transparent pigment, to provide the sense of depth that I wanted.

My photo 20211214 20220115, Montreal Library, Pfds, Sandra