Some Fall colours

 

This train bridge over the canal was interesting, it had a rusted patina that echoed the fall colours. Today, the sky was mostly overcast with intermittent bursts of sunlight making it difficult to paint because the lighting on the subject matter kept changing. I went with an overcast look for the train bridge painting.  

Lachine Canal Bridge with Fall Colours, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, October 2022 (No. 3263a)

 

 

Looping around to my favorite bulk food store Anatol, I rode back to NDG via Park Extension. I made a painting of this particular park on my 2 day study of Park Extension, for the blog clock here Park De Lestre, Park Extension. To do this painting I established the path with a dull red, then applied the bluish shadows while moist. Once dry, I applied textures on the path with the hog's hair brush, then overlaid the fallen leaves. There were not really this many leaves, I just started having fun painting the leaves and added a lot of them.

Park De Lestre, Fall Leaves,  watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, October 2022 (No. 3265b)

 

The main location for the day was a return to Dépanneur Diamond 10, where I was last week. The painting didn't turn out the way I hoped and I spent the week thinking about how to fix it. In this version I toned down the reds and got the pale yellows and oranges adjusted. The front door of the Dep is more prominent. It almost worked out but the attached building got cut off awkwardly.

Depanneur Diamond 10 version ii, watercolour 9 x 12" cold press, October 2022

 

I tried shrinking down the size of the building and lopped off some of the attachment. Unfortunately the building is sliding off the left side, and the focal point is not falling on the front door. I may have to think about it and try again. Apparently this building will be torn down, probably next spring. Furthermore, my inspiration is that it looks a lot like Van Gogh's painting called The Yellow House. So far, I solved the colours, values and textures but the composition needs to be fixed. Van Gogh used dramatic perspective lines to fit the scene onto his canvas, and his colour/value contrast was at the extreme. He also daubed in some pedestrians for an added sense of community.

Depanneur Diamond 10 version iii, watercolour 8 x 10" cold press, October 2022 (No. 3335b)