With cool breezy weather today I was able to get out to the bridge and make this painting looking south on De Lorimiere. The skateboard park, unseen to my right, was making a terrible clatter of skateboarders, and there was a lot of traffic on my left, then I realized I was not wearing my earplugs which explained the noise. To tackle this painting I learned from past mistakes and completed the main structure of the bridge first, followed by the traffic, then the sky which was painted around the bridge. Of course there were pylons all up and down the street, due to the renovations they did to the park area under the bridge. The apartment on the left is under construction, and if you could see past it, there are half a dozen other massive condos under construction. Painting rows of cars is getting easier, I make a series of overlapping marshmallow shapes then fill in the green windshield, black under carriage and wheels, and leave the headlight area white until the end. Red for taillights, yellow for headlights. The bridge green was perylene green (PBk31) with phthalo green (PG7) applied a shade darker than it is after drying. Anticipating the drying shift is a hard thing to learn, it applies mostly to dark paints like PBk31, PB60 and PBk6... they dry a good shade lighter than they look when wet.
Jacques Cartier Bridge, watercolour 8 x 10" cold press, November 2023
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