#2540 "Kingston Penn Cumulus Lines"

The International Plein Air Painters (IPAP) was a direct response to the tragedy of 911. Something positive and constructive needed to arise from those ashes. Art is really the universal language that transcends political boundaries and cultures in a creative way. The Kingston School of Art (KSOA) has been organizing Paint the Town in conjunction the International Plein Air Painters Worldwide Paint Out since 2013. They do a fantastic job of coordination and I have been painting with them since 2014 on this very special weekend. 

This was the first afternoon of Paint the Town 2021. I still had some time to paint. It was a Friday and parking was scarce or nonexistent in Kingston during the typical workday. I decided to play it safe and move to the north end of the Portsmouth Harbour parking lot and paint King Street West and portions of the Kingston Penitentiary. This building is iconic and offers tours although during the paint-out it seemed that a movie was being filmed within those walls. The cumulus were continuing to develop and a few rain drops did reach the ground. The September air mass was quite unstable. It looked to me as if the cumulus congestus was involved in a prison break.

I was attracted by the swirls and the patterns in the clouds, the tree limbs and the lawn mower lines in the grass. There are no straight lines in nature - generally speaking - not even those of that mower. The Canadian flag was at half mast and there could be countless reasons why. 

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