City View from Summit Lookout

The summit lookout has been open for awhile now, you can see in the link when I painted it during the pandemic. I didn't return to summit woods or the lookout last year at all, but I plan to go back again this summer when the trees have leaves again. This scene, done today, is looking to the south east at the main down town core with all of its multi-coloured, multi-layered buildings. The taller buildings are all modern, made of steel and glass with green, blue and black tints, while the lower buildings were the older constructions made of concrete, brick, and smaller windows. Its not exactly what it looked like, but I did follow the buildings closely and just arranged them in a neat way, kind of like when I painted Quebec City last year. In the background you can just make out the river and the south shore with the rolling blue mountains off in the distance. The sky was done with a glow-effect, it started with a chartreuse on the horizon, and sharply blended to blue towards the corner, with a daub of dark blue (PB60) in the upper left. It's how the Japanese print makers often did the sky in the 19th century woodblock prints, and it gives a decorative framing effect.

City View from Summit Lookout, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, March 2024