#30×30 2026 : Another warm up sketch :)

Flashback to 11 May – showing these out of order, yes. I’m buying myself some time in week one of the marathon to make some better work! Hahahah! <Sound of panic ]

I hope I’m going to come out with something! The pressure is on :P

Still cold and overcast at the time of painting. This is one of my favorite intersections, just heading into the old port, on Rue St-Francois Xavier and Notre Dame Ouest.

I love these warm-grey Beaux Arts buildings. I suppose I can’t really call this a painting? It’s more of a tinted drawing really.

But I’m quite happy with this one. I’ve did a few more from this ‘warm up phase’ that are truly not worth showing :) So I’m pretty happy to have lucked out on this one.

I always waver back and forth between painting and drawing. It’s like – I only have a set amount of energy in a painting session.

It seems like, if the subject is a complex bit of architecture, then there’s less energy left for the painting.

And in truth – when it’s cloudy, and there’s no cast shadows – I feel like this is the only way to go?

Ok –

Still getting warmed up! But I hope you guys have also started posting. We will see you up on VIVIFY!