China Town gate

 

As I revisited some old locations, I stopped for lunch in China Town under some shady trees where I painted a side view of the gate and a facade montage last week. I used  the vertical 3 : 1 ratio format I got from st Armand paper makers. The scene shows a cross section of the gate with a soaring skyscraper in the background. A bright yellow tree and part of the stone lion can be seen in the bottom left. The mauve gate was done with purple magenta (PV55) and orange (PO62), with some indo blue (PB60 for shadow). The turquoise building, purple gate with warm accents, and the lime-yellow tree all work well together. It looks like I forgot to initial this one which happens from time to time. If I had an even bigger piece of paper, say 12 x 19 or bigger I could fit the whole scene in. With the st Armand paper I find it best to paint fast and use ample amounts of water to keep the paint from getting too heavy. Its great paper to use, glad I bought a decent amount of it since the store will close and move out of Montreal by December.

China Town gate vertical, watercolour 4 x 12", rough press st Armand, September 2023 (No. 3651b)