At the top
Posted: September 27, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized 17 CommentsI was on a school field trip to Mont Tremblant with some French exchange students today. We took the gondola to the top of the mountain to have lunch and three things happened.
1. I met Japanese tourists — many of them — who come to Canada to see the autumn colours (and they were quite outstanding today!).
2. I saw some folks with easels and paints getting off the gondola, one of whom looked surprisingly similar to my painting friend Helmut Langeder. When I went looking for them after lunch it turned out it was Helmut. How often does that happen? You meet someone you know at the top of a mountain.
3. I realized I don’t know how to draw panoramas and I should have taken the panorama workshop with Simo Capecchi in Santo Domingo!
Shari Blaukopf's Sketchbook 
I imagine learning to draw panoramas has something to do with the curve of the horizon line.
I would love to learn more about that too. I love panoramic views.
What a great day you had!
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It was a great day Valerie. In fact you could not get more spectacular than today.
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Hah Shari,
You are so cute 😉 I should have written your last sentence on markets — as I feel the same —
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I can give you the workshop on markets now but I will still have to take the panorama workshop…
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You know me… I would loooove a market workshop ;-)))
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Well I think your panorama view is fabulous… so eye catching. If you’re doing a market workshop I sure hope it is an online class because I’d love to attend too.
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Where do you live?
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Charleston SC… a long, long way from Canada
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Too far to come for a market sketch!
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I know this exact view and find you have captured it beautifully!
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Thanks Alison!
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Hi Shari,
I thought your view from the top of Tremblant was great and it tugged at my heart strings.
We spent many years in our waterfront home on Lac Tremblant. It was there that my artist
friends (many from our local college in Ste. Anne de Bellevue) gathered for a few days
each summer to paint, eat, sip wine, swm and generally have a great time together.
Over the years we improved our technique while gently offering a critique or two at the
end of each day. This event became such a yearly ritual and one that we all cherished.
Because I know the area so well, II wanted to share my own experience and artistic
endeavors at Mont Tremblant……….such a special place!
Ruth
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Such a nice memory Ruth. Were your artists friends from John Abbott?
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Yes Shari, my artist friends were staff at John Abbott. I met many wonderful
people there as I become very involved in art and art history. It was my
launching pad before obtaining my BFA.
Ruth
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Maybe so – but I recognize Mont Tremblant. I have been trying very light washes mixed with areas of heavy opacity. I am not sure if that breaks the rules. I am painting the trees and the woodshed outside my kitchen window
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There are no rules. You do what you think works Mary.
Hope your painting works out well.
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So glad to hear there are no rules Shari…that’s really liberating for creativity 🙂
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