Paintings long escarpment, gloomy day

With the threat of rain or snow, I got out on the bike relatively early today and stayed up on the Plateau along st Jacques street. This is a prominent radio tower that is close to the train tracks, with a community garden area in the foreground between two busy roads. I picked up some new tubes of Holbein watercolour paint the other day including indo yellow (PY154), phthalo blue red shade (PB15) and perylene maroon (PR179) at Avenue des Arts, and decided to grab a new round #6 brush also Holbein. The new brush of course has a great point which allowed the fine details of the radio tower and leafless tree branches. 

Radio Tower, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, March 2024

At this point, the escarpment falls off into the Turcot interchange which leaves the bridge heavily exposed to wind. Now I understand the shape of the bridge, you can't see it from the painting, but the outer shell of this bridge bows out almost like the wind of an airplane which must cut the wind. The cars were zipping by and I captured them with some simple white, black, green and red marks. For colour contrast I also played the yellowish glow off of the darker purples and earth colours. 

Light traffic st Jacques bridge, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, March 2024