Look up
Posted: February 25, 2013 Filed under: Uncategorized 16 CommentsFor some reason I was thinking about scale today when I went out. There is a huge maple I have been wanting to draw. It towers over everything in the neighbourhood but it’s situated on a main thoroughfare with no parking nearby. In lieu of that I found this tall spruce. I have probably passed it many times but never really looked up to take in its height and shape. I have even sat on the terrace of the restaurant housed in that yellow building, under that wooden pergola, without noticing it.
Shari Blaukopf's Sketchbook 
Shari
It is fabulous!
Chris
p.s. Family things keep popping up at last minute – one day, I will get out to sketch with all of you/CR
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Thanks Chris!! I didn’t even make it yesterday. Too busy myself.
Hopefully you will make it when it gets warmer.
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I absolutely love it! Look at that proportions!
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Thanks Julia. I missed you yesterday. Hope you did some great metro sketches.
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Ouch. I missed the outing too
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Very nice. Sometimes we have to get far away in order to see what is up close. I love this tree and if I lived in Montreal, I would say hello to it every day and try to make friends.
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So true Lee. But if you lived in Montreal you would never sit in your car in winter, right?
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Ha! You are right. You would find me hunched over a wood-burning stove in a state of near hibernation.
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Looking at your paintings I have learned much about the construction of watercolors.
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Thanks so much John. I am glad to share and really happy to hear this kind of feedback. I can’t make the posts educational every day but I try at least once a week to share something about technique.
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Hi Shari, i think i recognize that very tall, stately coniferous beside the restaurant on the
corner of Cartier and the Lakeshore Rd. Hard to believe i have two other paintings of that
same tree in much smaller versions painted many years ago by another Pointe Claire watercolour artist ! It’s wonderful that you keep finding these treasures in nature which
most people never take the time to notice or appreciate.
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Really like this one, Shari.
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I think you probably know this corner Helmut. You can practically see it from your window.
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Thanks Helmut!!
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Beautiful. What is the size of ‘Looking Up’?
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Do you ever make prints of your work? My mother and sister were watercolor artists and I would love to have an original–some day. I’m interested in the work above, “Look Up”.
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