We drove half an hour north yesterday to Awenda Provincial Park, also situated on Georgian Bay. I’ve lived in this county for 45+ years and have never been. It is a huge thickly treed park with beaches and lots of camp sites. We ate our packed lunch and I drew this using my cheapo woodless water soluble pencils. I added more colour back at the cottage. This time I used 3 different colours of blue in my scribble water. I left white space for the whitecaps and smooshed over some of it with my watercolour brush. That is the best explanation I can do for my “kinda sorta” technique for creating water. I should spend more time on the sky but I’m done with this page.
I love the indigenous legend regarding the naming of the Giants Tomb Island and the 30,000 islands of Georgian Bay. I’m paraphrasing here, the Wyandot legend went something like this: Ketchikewana fell in love with a woman who was already betrothed. In anger, he grabbed up a large ball of earth and threw it away in the water creating the 30,000 islands of Georgian Bay. Then in despair he fell down on this island and died.
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