Today’s project is a commission for a friend; the S. Saskatchewan River as it winds southeast towards Medicine Hat. From the top of this hill, you can see 5 bends on the river, and the Cypress Hills, blue on the horizon. As always, first I had to have a really good drawing. The river breaks are complicated and if I try and paint them without knowing where the paint should go, I always wind up in a real mess.
This is one of my favourite places to paint, and at sunset it is truly magic.
It’s gorgeous. It almost looks like your looking north from Roger Stennes’s place to our old winter flat in the spring.