The Naked Silo

15" x 22", watercolour, 2016 I've painted my wife, Krista , several times, with this painting being my favourite (or maybe this one  ...or maybe this one ), and her sister Caitlin has appeared in this large watercolour , but it's nice to have them both together here, overlooking a river in Banff National Park in Alberta. I mention my concerted return to watercolour painting after an unplanned four year hiatus two posts ago , but this painting was actually the first one of the New 13 started and completed (the tractor was just the first on photographed well enough to post –even Rosebud got posted before this one).

30" x 22.5", watercolour, 2006 Krista's sister, Caitlin, is coming to visit next week and we're very much looking forward to her stay. This post's in honour of that. This painting's another composition made by juxtaposing two separate photos. Caitlin was photographed by me during her last trip out here a few years ago. The background was shot by a friend (probably around the same time) when the movie, Cinderella Man , was being filmed in Toronto (and a bit of Queen Street East was dressed in period clothing, so to speak). Why the juxtaposition of contemporary Caitlin vs a 1930s street scene? Why not?