Ride Across Downtown Montreal

 

On my way out to Anatol spices I stopped to make a few painting downtown. The first one is done on the new paper I got recently from st Armand paper makers down by the canal. It shows the downtown campus, in fact, the building on the right is the one where I attended the department meeting last week and made a painting from one of those windows looking down. For this painting I was standing in the same spot but looking up. This format is interesting for the city, it makes an almost abstract painting. It will take some more practice to get it right.

Downtown Campus vertical, watercolour 4 x 12", rough press st Armand, September 2023 (No. 3647a)

Towards the east part of downtown is the big library, seen in the background here. Feeling out of sorts, this was a kind of warm up painting, and I was pleased with the way it turned out. It was an unremarkable view, however, the building, field, paths, and the impressive tree on the left anchored the composition. To make the pastel turquoise of the library I mixed dark blue (PB60), blue green (PG7) and a touch of black (PBk6) with water. 

Big Library, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, September 2023 (No. 3545a)