Saturday Paint Trip: Turcot project

The bike path connection from St. Jacques to the Canal is finally open, unfortunately NDG did nothing to make it easier to get on the bike path, you have to ride around on the sidewalks by Canadian Tire to get close. The rest of it works well at least and they planted a lot of shrubs and plants as you see in the painting. I am looking north towards NDG from just across the highway, standing just next to the canal path. The sumac was done with red ochre (PR101) and perylene maroon (PR179) and a touch of pyrole red (PR255).
 

Turcot Landscaping, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, August 2021 (No. 2926)

 I followed a fork in the bike path for awhile and it led to... nowhere. There are vast expanses of gravel where parts of the highway must have been. I have no idea what they plan to do with the space, I rather hope they plant a forest here. The Montreal skyline was visible on the horizon. To make the glow happen on the open area, I applies a neutralized isoindo yellow (PY110 with a bit of PB60 and PR179). Then the foreground was done in a more neutral grey. Apparently warms are supposed to be in the front, but you can also put them in the middle of the composition to draw attention and give interest to an otherwise dull element. Painting large gravel areas seldom works, but in this case the triangular patch of grass and interesting light/shadow made for visual interest.

Turcot What is Next? watercolour 8 x 10" cold press, August 2021 (No. 2904)