On my way back from Anatol Spices, which is in Little Italy, I saw this scene of the lumber yard with that iconic warehouse/water tower structure in the north part of Mile End. The Canadian Tire store would be just behind me. Parking lot lamps were casting an eerie yellow-orange glow over the foreground building, while the background structure was in a muddy blue. The sky was made from my usual night sky pairing of indo blue with pyrol orange (PB60 + PO73), along with a touch of yellow ochre (PY43) to make it greyish instead of purplish. I am glad the brick patterns worked out on the background warehouse, it is quite a distinctive architecture that the city said would never change despite pressure from developers.
Lumber Yard on a Cold Night, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, December 2022 (No. 3307b)
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