#30×30, 2025, Day 20: Look! Another Cheat Day!

One more delaying tactic to buy time for more serious painting :)

I’ve drawn everything in the cute little Redpath museum multiple times – but I keep going back because I love the quaint Victorian atmosphere. This recent visit, it was actually quite busy – so that’s a great sign. I hope McGill never finds it necessary to close this gem.

Interesting to look back at some other times I’ve painted this suit of armor :) Here it is 2015 and 2018.

So much more color! Am I becoming boring in my old age – or more sensitive to color? or it is just random :) Just a mood and nothing more :) Hard to say!

But also; Here’s a sketchbook page from 2012; thirteen years ago. Looking back, I’m not sure why I didn’t start with watercolor from day one? (This one has a little digital color on it). I know I’d been using watercolor in school, and at life drawing. Probably I was just travelling light. I do believe this one was in winter. I also did a sketch unit on ‘montage pages’ at some point and this might have been the start of that. I know I taught that a few times at various urban sketchers thingys.

Anyway! I’m sure I could go back three days in a row and it would come out different each time. I’m going to call it a mood thing, not a sign of losing my touch :)

~m