Even on a rainy day, Tyler Scott headed outside to paint Dec. 23 in Sarnia’s Canatara Park.
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The Sarnia native turned Toronto resident said when he’s in Sarnia, he fairly regularly heads to the park with friend and former King George VI schoolteacher Bill Walters to paint en plein air (outdoors).
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Scott said he’s been painting about five years, two of them outdoors.
Oil paint is fairly resilient if rain starts to fall, he said, as he added color to the nature scene on a wooden board, and Passersby commented on the piece in progress.
Walters, whom Scott called an inspiration — Scott was a pupil at the Sarnia elementary school when Walters was teaching — also was painting Lake Chipican, from a different perspective farther along the lake’s edge.
The elder painter, who was blocking in his painting, said he’s readying pieces for a spring show. He typically tries to complete 100 plein air paintings a year, but estimated he’s done 130 in 2023.
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