LISA OSTERLAND

18 Renfrew

Westmount, QC
March 2014

A swim teammate of mine commissioned this for his wife’s upcoming birthday. The hidden twist was that he asked for a summer painting in the midst of a long, Canadian winter. The basic house was painted using photographs that had a lot of snow in them. Once the house was finished, I then had to base all of the garden landscaping using the one-and-only summertime photograph that he could find (which was off-angle and had been taken in the early evening, so the colours were a bit different). Happily, for both of us, his wife was more than delighted with the result.

10 cm x 12.5 cm