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Janet Jardine

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Bird's Eye Valley View by Janet Jardine Image: Bird's eye view of one of the Grindstone Creek wetlands down in Hendrie Valley, Royal Botanical Gardens. This is a scene that I photograph frequently when I walk there, and I’ve always had a mind to paint this vantage. As part of a 30-day painting-from-life challenge, I ventured there with my plein air kit and started the painting on site. By the time I was done, I had a purple-toned monochromatic value and composition study of the scene, and soon added colour on top of that, back in the studio.
Bird's eye view of one of the Grindstone Creek wetlands down in Hendrie Valley, Royal Botanical Gardens. This is a scene that I photograph frequently when I walk there, and I’ve always had a mind to paint this vantage. As part of a 30-day painting-from-life challenge, I ventured there with my plein air kit and started the painting on site. By the time I was done, I had a purple-toned monochromatic value and composition study of the scene, and soon added colour on top of that, back in the studio.
  • Janet Jardine
  • Bird's Eye Valley View, 2024
  • Oil on canvas
  • 12 x 16 in
  • $450

I was going to add at least one person down by the bench, and a few people walking by as I painted joked about it, but then a number of vultures circled overhead for a minute or so, and I managed to capture the gesture of few of them in the sky. I figured I would just stick with the circling vultures as a bit of added interest to the scene. Painting started on-site September 30, 2024 and completed soon after - colour version finished by October 10, 2024