Seeking out dumpsters today, I finally found some worth painting just off the Maisonneuve bike path at the downtown Concordia Campus. The last of the sunlight was illuminating the wall and part of the dumpster creating a dramatic lighting effect. The green windows provided a good colour contrast with the red, and the black garbage bags had value contrast with the sunlit brick wall. Yellow poles, meant to prevent vehicles from colliding with the structures helped to cut through all the grey. The red colour was made with pyrol red (PR254) and a touch of magenta (PR122).
Red Dumpsters Sun Beam, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, September 2023 (No. 3558b)
On the way back I veered off to the south and turned on Notre Dame street and stopped in Ville st Henri at the restaurant with the distinctive teal roof. Mixing the colour was a challenge, it is mostly green, but leaning slightly to cyan, slightly more than phthalo green. After one failed attempt and some adjustments thereafter, I got the mix right with phthalo green blue shade (PG7), a touch of phthalo blue sapphire (PB15), and a bit of grey to cut the chroma and darken it. To get that warm brown plaster wall in background I mixed a green umber (PBr7) with orange (PO62), then painted in my initials instead of the graffiti. Today I stopped by Avenue des Arts and picked up some more pyrol orange (PO73), its a colour I used for night skies, but then ran out and didn't replace it. Turns out it can't be replaced for that purpose with any of the other red-orange options, or with red paints either. So indo blue (PB60) and pyrol orange should give me some good night sky. I notice a dark cyan too at night which I haven't worked out either. There is always something to learn !
Teal Roof Hot Dogs, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, September 2023 (No. 3552b)
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