Crémazie station, Orange Line Metro

After last week's rain at Jarry Station, it was great to be out on a nice day this weekend. The Crémanzie station was not very far from Jarry Station, just a few blocks north to the autoroute 40 along a quiet urban bike path. Most of Montreal has bike paths with the exception, ahem, of NDG. Perhaps the upcoming Mayoral election will change things, like attitudes towards bikes. The autoroute 40 made for an awesome backdrop to the south station entrance of Crémanzie, which, like Jarry station, has an apartment building sitting a top. The balconies had an art deco theme, it reminded me of Gaudi's building in Spain a little bit.

Crémazie station, view of Autoroute 40, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, October 2021 (No. 2848)

 

Rotating around to the other angle, I could get a good look at the sunlit municipal building in the background. It was built from an attractive pale brick that cast at least 8 different hues of yellow. I wont go into all the detail on the yellows, they were made primarily from yellow ochre (PY42 Da Vinci), with tints of isoindo yellow for the orange cast, perylene green for the brownish cast, and indo blue with carbon black for the grey cast. The foreground building and station was done with earth paints including burnt yellow ochre (PR102 Daniel Smith) and umber (PBr7 Shin Han PWC). I wrote the company name because these names and pigment codes are highly variable.

Crémazie station, Orange line, with Yellow Brick Building, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, October 2021 (No. 2849)

 

For this painting I was thinking of the painting I did on the Intense Island about ten years ago. It was just as intense, the wind was tunneling through the buildings and the auto route which was just at my back. Trying to hold the paper with its cardboard support, the brush, and control the flapping wind was a tough one! That explains why there is hardly a straight line in the painting. Regardless, it does convey an feeling of atmospheric intensity.

Crémazie station, Orange line, North Entrance, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, October 2021 (No. 2928)