Université-de-Montréal Station, Blue Line Metro

Last year I stopped and made a painting of west entrance of Université-de-Montréal Station with a lady walking her dog. There are several more entrances to the station at the foot of Mount Royal, heading up the University campus. It is a delightful little wooded area with good sight lines, sun, and steep rocky slopes. In this painting, I caught a view of some University buildings with their striking raw-sienna bricks. Without raw-sienna on my palette I used a combination of yellow ochre (PY43) and burnt ochre (PR102). Yellow ochre was a colour I only used sparingly, but now in the amber tinted light of the winter I am finding it incredibly useful. The tree tops for example, were done with little flecks of yellow ochre. This painting reminds me of some of the old paintings I made of the UWO campus.

Université-de-Montréal Station, Blue Line, Bottom View, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, December 2021 (No. 2948)

 

Venturing up the hill I found a vantage point standing behind a chest-height wall at the top of the main entrance you see in the first painting. Looking down, there was a neat view of the walking paths which looked like tree branches to me. A little patch of snow was surviving in the shadows. With the sun at a low angle, long shadows cast across the olive-green grass.

Université-de-Montréal Station, Blue Line Metro, Top View, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, December 2021 (No. 2949a)