House View, Reunion Island.

This is the last blog of 2016, it has been a good year for painting, I did less large works and more small works. Over all I probably painted a lower number of paintings but concentrated on the quality. In this post I am showing an old painting done on location on Ile de la Reunion in the Indian Ocean in the town of St. Denis. The old volcano is visible on the horizon. They call it the old volcano because it is no longer active, as opposed to the one to the south of the island which is quite active. At least this paining reminds of warmer times in the midst of a cold and snowy winter up here in Montreal.

Complementary colours are important to emphasize, in this painting the organe awning complements the blue sky. There is also a purple shadow on one of the houses that complements the yellow tones. I rarely think about complements in a literal way, instead I just try and feel the colours. Another trick I used here was to put some dark lines over the window in shadows to give it a luminosity.

5x 8 " 2011 Cold press watercolour.