Going downtown to pickup the exams I stopped to make this painting of the main building on the Sir George Williams Campus. A lot of stressed out-looking students were walking on the sidewalks, but then again it was professors like me who write those exams and make them stressed out. To make this scene vibrant the colours were applied at very high chroma, it looked like rainbow colours at the time. Due to the overcast weather, and the paper which absorbs the paint and dulls it, the colours dried less intense. I used a new format here, about half of a 9x12 paper, which helps to capture the vertical city scenes. I'd like to try a 15 x 6 format, but it wont fit in the scanner, but it seems like a good size for painting in the city.
Downtown Campus, Concordia U, watercolour 4.5 x 8" cold press, December 2022 (No. 3344)
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