Quick Ride to the River

 

This is the river, as Jon Voight said in the famous movie Anaconda.  I was standing at the end of the pier in the touristy part of Old Port trying to get a few paintings in before dark. Which is 5PM now! Just to the let you can see a portion of the artificial beach they installed about ten years ago. To capture the interesting colour of the st Lawrence river I applied a wash of blue, let dry, then overlaid with short brushstrokes of red blue and yellow.

River Looking East with Beach Umbrellas, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, November 2022 (No. 3282b)

 

Here is the view of the beach looking down on an odd angle. Across the river is the old port which is now a bunch of Condos, then the Molson Brewery. For composition, the triangle of the beach interlocks with the triangle of the water and the background. To paint the sand I used yellow ochre (PY43), umber (PBr7) and orange (PO73) diluted with water.

View of Beach and River, watercolour 8 x 10" Strathmore Series 400, November 2022 (No. 3342b)