It was Angela's pick today for our "creek sketchout". She chose to take us to Beaver Dam Creek and park which is located off of Roblin Blvd at Berkeley. She had scouted it out a few days earlier and had the good fortune to have a deer walk right in front of her as she was sketching.
We both went out with our rubber boots on today but we still had cold feet when we were standing on snow areas. Along the creek, there is still quite a bit of snow. This may be the last time we get to see snow as the temperatures are expected to hit well above zero all weekend.
We walked along the creek in both directions as has become our norm, we found two locations to sketch. We liked this creek as it is very narrow and had quite high banks as it approached the Assiniboine River. The tree shadows coming down the very steep snow covered banks created slate blue patterns. After finishing our sketch here, we stopped in the clearing where we started and took time to look at the interesting pattern of the snow on the emerging grassy area. Also, the snow had a very crystal like pattern to it. I chose to do a quick watercolor painting of this grassy area while Angela walked further down the creek to do her second sketch. While I was looking at the grass, I spotted a little purple figure in the grass. This little guy was just the right scale for the sketches I'm creating. I will have to give him a name and bring him along on the next trip out.
Our next planned outing in this coming Monday in Assiniboine Forest only this time we will enter from the eastern end off of Shaftesbury Blvd.
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| Intersting shadow patterns |
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| Lumps of snow scattered across the grass |
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| Closeup of the crystallized snow |
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| My new purple friend in the landscape |
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| Ink and Watercolor |
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| View looking south towards Roblin Blvd |
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