I attempted to learn from a Tom Thomson painting, The Canoe (painted in the spring or fall of 1914)- only I changed the colour of the canoe from birch-bark white to red. Sacrilege, I know...but, I did this as homage to the red canoe my husband had when we first started dating. We went out on the Saskatchewan River on one of our first dates, and I fell in love (with James the nature boy, not the canoe).
Now, about the painting. I have worked on the water and sky over and over again. It's taken several "re-writes" to get it to a state I think I'm happy with. The two tall trees in the foreground at the right, I like. The third, smaller one, I don't. I might just paint it out. In the original there are more trees in front of the centre of the canoe, and I might attempt to put them in later if I'm brave enough. As for the canoe itself, I'm really not happy with it. The shape/perspective is wrong and that bugs me to no end. It will have to wait though, I'm putting this aside until the time is right.
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