Day 03: #30x30DirectWatercolor: A day off to go painting!

I didn’t manage to get a video made today, so just quickly, here’s a little sketch. (7.5×7″)

This heritage building is at 357 Rue Commune, just across from King Edward Quay < which I always pronounce as ‘KWay‘- and only recently realized is ‘Keey‘, but I can’t help myself ]

This used to be the Harbor Commission – whatever that is? I imagine many busy-busy clerks in brown suits.

The building was recently restored into a private club, with no expenses spared on a lavish interior; including a rooftop garden, and basement spa.

Le Club 357 made the news during the Charbonneau inquiry, which presented recordings of bribery and backroom dealing between city officials and construction contractors. Imagine that! I mean; what else would go on in such a place?

I wonder what will become of this little slice of heaven now. Who will own it? What kind of business will they put there? Surely not condos! Haha!

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Let me leave you with some closeups of the brushwork.

I’m trying to be more conscious of the little whites / gaps left behind when you build a shape. In the last few years I’ve been calling shapes ‘Broken Silhouettes’, to emphasize how they shouldn’t be too perfect.

Many small brushstrokes coming together to make the shape.