On Our Way Home

On Our Way Home by Martin Howard (2013)
Watercolour, 40.6 x 30.5 cm, 140 lb Fine grain paper.
Honefsgatan, Domnarvet, Borlänge, Sweden.

This is one of the pleasant views that my children see on their way home from school. Close to the outskirts of the Swedish town of Borlänge, the houses become more spread out, giving a more village appearance than town. It's very scenic and we probably take it for granted. I took the photograph that I painted this from, back at the beginning of the summer. Soon after came the long, ten week school holidays, so I didn't walk down that road for quite a while. When I finally walked that way home again, I noticed a lot of changes. The wooden fence on the left, which was leaning over, had been replaced with green plastic-coated chain link fencing. The foreground bush on the right had been cut back and the wooden fence on the right had been painted red. So don't wait until next time to capture a pleasing image because next time it could be gone!