Ewelina's Art: Journal

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Sunday, 4 August 2024

Port painting and location

Another location I visited after a few years. The painting is watercolor and gouache. The original blog post can be viewed here

Monday, 15 July 2024

Painting journal and location

After a few years, returning to the location of a painting I made. I will never forget the places I painted. Life is a series of moments. So its nice to save the peaceful ones and make them into art.

Tuesday, 9 July 2024

Painting Journal work Part 3

More watercolour and gouache studies from my travels in Quebec and Ontario. Illustrated memories from my water colour journal.

A painting of one of my favourite monuments in Montreal. The Monument to Sir George-Étienne Cartier. I visited this place many times and it became a place I would go to relax and clear my head and sometimes gain some insights.

Toronto sky line in the distance. This was a walk in one of my favourite lakeside parks. It was a nice sunny spring day, though it was a lot colder then it looked.

On the left: View of the mt. Royale cross from on top of Montreal. The city looked magical lit up.

On the right: Lights in the snow. Montreal does a nice job at staying lively and colourful all throughout the winter. No matter how cold! The many lights installed made the snow look so magical and vibrant.

Top: Colourful flowers planted by a turquoise wall in downtown Montreal.
Middle: From a summer walk with family near Toronto.
Bottom: Road trip to Quebec City!

At the cottage

A nature landscape study at a cottage I stayed at in Quebec. Painted in water color and gouache.

An elephant in my dreams

Hello, I've been catching up on posting my paintings from my water color journal here:

I had a dream last in October 2022. Where I was exploring an abandoned city with a former classmate. There was a huge old barn like structure with buildings inside.

Everything was old, worn out and abandoned. When you entered these buildings. The hallways were extremely narrow, enough for just one person at a time. That classmate was leading me around. We were looking for something. The overall mood felt very adventurous. Like some sort of expedition.

We came upon a few apartments that were extremely crammed and tiny. I remember thinking, how did people live here? I then entered a bedroom, and everything looked old and worn out.

Except for a stuffed animal elephant, with universe print fabric. This elephant instantly drew my attention. I intuitively felt it didn't belong and wanted to be taken out of it's current environment. I decided to take it with me and put it in my bag. I felt like I was reclaiming something precious and maybe that's what I was looking for in the dream.

Throughout the day, I kept thinking about the elephant and environment. I enjoy journaling about my dreams and interpreting the messages in them. Some how, I didn't want to forget this elephant. So it lead me to creating this painting with water color and water color pencil crayons.

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