Loyola Campus Green Roof

On my way to work today I stopped to make a quick painting of Loyola Campus sitting on the new bench that they installed last year. I did a similar painting from the same spot last year of a tree and the green roof. The trees are still there but I was short on time today and had to cut some of the detail out and focus on the colours and textures. The roof was yellow ochre (PY43) with phthalo green (PG7) and some lemon yellow (PY175), while the grass was mostly indo yellow (PY110) and phthalo green (PG36). Those are light and bright paints that produce interesting saturated olive greens and cool greens. The brick was a mish mash of various colours, I mixed all the green mixes with pyrol red (PR254) to produce brown. The colours, values and textures are right on, next time if I have more time and a bigger piece of paper I could capture more detail.

Loyola Campus Green Roof, 5 x 7" cold press, watercolour, April 2021 (No. 2586b)