Taking advantage of the nice weather I rode down to the river after work and made a few paintings. For this one I was standing up on a small hill looking down at the bike path that was freshly paved, the walking path, and a pair of rowers went by quickly. I liked how you could see the row boat going through the tree branches, as if the tree were giving you a view. The colour of fresh asphalt is dark neutral blue-violet, I mixed it up with indo blue (PB60) magenta (PV19), carbon black (PBk6), moderately diluted with water, and a touch of yellow since the sun was going down.
Rowers and Paths Strange Tree, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, September 2023 (No. 3548a)
At the tip of the park, looking south west you can see the other side of the river, its the Kahnawake reserve. I was trying to capture the effect of river foam lapping against the rocky shore but it was more difficult to do than I anticipated. In the end I went for contrasting textural effects of the reflecting water, the heaps of seaweed, the rocky breakwater, and pebbly beach. The sun was shining strongly just to my right which created a vertical glare in the water
Windy Shore, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, September 2023 (No. 3549a)
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