Channeling the Monk

I took this because it reminded me of Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald's backyard paintings:
duckduckgo.com/?q=lionel+lemoine+fitzgerald+backyard+paintings&atb=v249-1&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images

As you can see, neither the trees nor the colours match the paintings at the link. I usually misremember paintings, so no surprise. I also hadn't remembered that he spelt his last name with a capital G (like me!). But then maybe I've only ever seen it misspelt.

Anyway, L. L. didn't get past elementary school, but, bored with the types of job he could get he taught himself drawing from Ruskin's Elements of Drawing and then took an evening art class. After getting married he worked day jobs and painted in his spare time. After 17 years he ended up as principal of Winnipeg School of Art. He was later briefly a member of the Group of Seven and a founding member of its successor, the Canadian Group of Painters. That probably means nothing to non-Canadians but we worship those people. They had a good international reputation in their day, too.

So that's what led me to this parking lot.

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Keith Burton mentions below that FitzGerald liked to draw his immediate surroundings, especially his backyard, and that's what most of us are doing these days. A good reminder that inspiration can be found in many places.

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The PiP at upper left is a link to another homage to FitzGerald.

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More tributes to painters and photographers:
www.ipernity.com/doc/fitzgerald/album/1294982?with=45547580