Not too long from now the jazz festival begins in Montreal (late June) around the location where this painting was done. The oval building is L'Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) downtown location, and to the left most part of the painting you can see the edge of the sloped roof of the place d'arts building where most of the international jazz fest main events happen. Perhaps when the jazz fest begins I will have the chance to do some painting of the crowds of people and the jazz musicians.
A shadow is made up of two things: the colour of the object itself, and the reflected colours of the surroundings. In this case the object (the UQAM building) is a pale orange, and the surrounding (the sky) is blue. The shadow on the building was a combination of cerulean blue (an opaque sky blue) and rose madder (light pink) and a pale orange colour matching the colour of the building. The same thing applies to the shadows you see in the trees, which are a dark blue version of the warm greens found in the leaves.
L'Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, summer 2007 (No. 1095)
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