Capturing the Waterfowl Park from dawn to dusk
Painter Angela Thibodeau has been been getting up early and working late this summer, in an effort to catch sunrise and sunset at the Sackville Waterfowl Park as much as possible. As this year’s artist-in-residence for the park, Thibodeau’s goal is to document and share the dawn and dusk colours and activity in the wetland.
CHMA spoke with Thibodeau this week to find out more about her summer residency:
As someone who often works from photographs, Thibodeau says she is frustrated by the limitation of her digital camera in capturing the tones and colours of the light-changing mornings and evenings. “It’s always trying to correct for the low light,” she says. “So I’ll just make sketches. They don’t look like finished paintings, but they help me get to know the colours of the sunrise and sunset.”
Then three days a week, Thibodeau sets up in her makeshift studio at the Sackville Visitor Information Centre and paints.
“I make finished paintings in watercolour and bit of pencil and pen, of all different scenes in the Waterfowl Park,” says Thibodeau. “And the sky always reflects the colours that I’ve seen the morning of or the night before. I’m trying to make a body of work where all of the paintings show the park at those times of day.”… Continue