As the sun descended after work I made this painting on my usual walk home on Terrebonne street. They were doing some roadwork and there were orange signs, pylons and barricades strewn about the sidewalk and road. The bright orange of the construction objects was an interesting harmony with the other fall colours including bright yellow leaves on the foreground tree and some red leaves on background trees. Since summer isn't over yet, actually it is, but there was still a lot of green in the lawns and other foliage. The orange was with benzi deep orange (PO36) a paint from Da Vinci company that is heavily pigmented and slightly darker and lower than pyrol orange (PO73) which I used to make the pumpkin personality painting. The two oranges look almost identical, but their mixing properties are quite different. When mixed with cool colours PO36 tends to make browns, while PO73 tends to make violets. They should make a bright orange paint and call it Montreal Orange.
Fall Colours on Terrebonne, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, October 2023 (No. 3564b)
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