When Cindy, Norma and I arrived in the upper parking lot at the Viamede Resort, I stopped to take some photographs of the chapel on the property where numerous weddings have been held over the years since it was established in 1877.From there we went back across the parking lot and started down the paved pathway to the docks on Stoney Lake.
I didn't go down onto the dock, but stayed in the patio area just above them.
The lake was very calm and I took photographs of the cottages on its edge that cast long reflections across the water.
Viamede III - Flower Pot
I sat down at one of the picnic tables and started sketching the cottages before the wind came up and blurred their reflections.
Once my drawing of the cottages was completed, I started on a sketch of the large wooden barrel planters at both entrances to the patio.
They were filled with ivy, dark purple petunias, bright pink geraniums and salvia. What intrigued me was the use of two hawsers (a heavy rope used for mooring) running between the posts that surrounded the patio giving it a nautical theme.
Which, is fitting since the docks and boat house are right there.
Viamede II - Planters
Once I finished that sketch I noticed a flower pot on the upper level of the boathouse.
It had a black eyed Susan vine growing out of the pot and climbing up the corner post on the rail fence around the deck.
Viamede I - Cottage Reflections
At a later time I may turn each of these drawings into either watercolour or acrylic paintings.
Thank you for coming to look at my artwork.
