冬季出口

[作者：马克-塔罗-霍姆斯，在加拿大魁北克省蒙特利尔市]

A
few weeks back I was part of an Urban Sketchers art exchange. I had
partners in Girona and in Sao Paulo. There were other swaps with NYC.
All told, about 40 artists participated.

We each did sketches of
our towns and sent them off to our partners. The drawings were meant to
arrive as a surprise, so I’ve been waiting til is was safe to show
these.

I’d
been fed up with the cold and wet of winter, and was feeling envious of
these guys in sunny countries. Somehow that meant I really had to paint
some snow. They had to see something that could only be found in
Montreal. Perhaps there’s a little northern pride going on.

我们
were lucky enough to get the last snow of the year that very weekend. I
got up early and headed straight to Mount Royal Cemetery to get these
scenes.  It was a perfect day for it – cold but clear skies, the way
it can be the morning after a snowfall.

I have to admit I’m playing a little trick on them. Making winter look a
lot more attractive than it really is. Much better to have a picture of
snow, than the real thing.