Chef Tang restaurant, Verdun

 

On the way home I stopped at Chef Tang's restaurant on Verdun street in order to make a painting, and to pick up some of their famous grilled duck. It was as good as a grilled duck as I have ever had, all from the little hole in the wall restaurant in Verdun! I did the painting while I waited to pick up the food, standing across the street I had a good view of the illuminated sign with the deep blue sky providing a brilliant backdrop. 

To enhance the intensity of the blue I used a combination of phthalo blue sapphire (PB15) and cobalt blue (PB28), then added indo blue and carbon black. The carbon black seems to have dried a bit greyish, next time I will omit it, and trust the darkness of indo blue (PB60), or neutralize it slightly with pyrol orange (PO73) which gives a mauve tint. Anyways, the sky really plays well off the dark bricks and wire apparatus on the roof. The bricks were iron oxide red (PR101/PBr7) with the carbon black (PBk6). My palette was a right mess this morning.

Chef Tang restaurant at nightfall, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, September 2021 (No. 2812)