We had a lovely day in Calgary yesterday. After several days in a row of rain and cold it was a welcome relief. I packed myself off to hike in to a spring in Bowmont Park. Unfortunately, the city is reclaiming the area around it and I wasn’t able to get there. I settled for one of my favourite places – the Bowmont off leash area. There is a small island with very shallow water around it right under a railway bridge. 
The dogs and kids run around in the shallow water and have a great time. I enjoyed doing this but this is one of those sketches that you kinda wish you didn’t have to fess up to… however, I did learn quite a bit from this. I learned I need to paint outdoors in the dry heat MUCH more often to improve at it. I will try to do that.
Today I started a watercolor painting and here are a few pics of that process. Of course I did work through the composition in my 
sketchbook briefly to check shapes and values. Then I drew it up freehand – this painting is about learning a process, not producing a result… I saved white areas by applying masking fluid and then helped it to “travel” around and spread by spraying water ahead of the flow. THAT was fun – I had no idea I could use masking fluid like this… the result will be much softer. Then I mixed up several 
colors to pour and had a lovely, messy time doing that… I enjoyed it and tomorrow I will continue this one. Ciao!
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