At the junction of the St. Lawrence and the Saguenay rivers, Tadoussac is a small town famous for whale watching. The painting shows a hotel down near the beach which has been there in various forms for decades. The time of year was fall, you can see some of the leaves have changed to orange. In the distance I drew in a whale (the small black fleck towards the left). Although the whale was not actually there, one can see many whales from the beach, and even more on the many cruises available.This painting has a lot of 'depth' to it, which is to say the illusion of distance. One way to create the illusion of distance is to put warm colours in the foreground (the bottom of the painting), and cooler colours in the background. You see that the warmest red is right at the bottom (left) of the hotel roof. Also, on the bottom right I put in a warm brown wash in the trees. Nearly every landscape I do has a splash of red at the bottom to help with the illusion of depth.
Tadoussac Red Roofs and Whale, 5 x 7" cold press paper, fall 2007 (No. 1148)
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