Try saying that five times fast! I detoured along St. Jacques Street on the way home hoping to find a good view of downtown Montreal through the trees. Unfortunately the brush was very dense as you can see on the left side of the painting. So I turned to face the Super C grocery store, with a good angle on the sun and a few seagulls mulling about. They were obviously expecting that I had something for them to eat but alas it was not to be!
The brick silhouette mixture in the back was red brown (PR101/PBr7) with perylene maroon (PR179) and a touch of raw umber (PBr7). Lately I have been adding carbon black (PBk6) but this time I left it out and trusted the perylene maroon and raw umber to carry the darkness through. It worked great, and I can see a deep maroon that is quite nice. The parking lot basic formula is indothrene blue (PB60) with perylene maroon which gives a neutral red-purple, to which I add yellow ochre (PY43) to give it the yellow tint. The yellow ochre is important because it has a low chroma and can really hold its colour in tints. By varying the amounts of those three paints, and the amount of water, I can reproduce almost any form of asphalt whether it be new, old, sun-bleached, daytime, night time, or sunset.
Seeing Seagulls at the Super C, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, April 2022 (No. 3098a)
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