On an early morning in downtown Toronto I saw this pigeon on top of the signage outside of Union station. In the background you can see some of the gaudy glass buildings on Front street towards bay street. The orange glass is a dilute mix of pyrol orange (PO73) with yellow ochre (PY43) and orange (PO62).
Morning pigeon Toronto, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, July 2024
Fast forward to Montreal, here is one of the new, nearly finished condo towers nearby Gare Central. To the left is a large, posh hotel with some nice looking landscaping. The orange side of the building is pale yellow ochre with orange paint. The shadow side is similar but with indo blue (PB60) and magenta (PV55). Quite a few tourists were trying to get a look over my shoulder, usually I tilt the paper so they can see it, sometimes they take pictures of make short videos.
Two tone condo, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, July 2024
A little further west and you come to the old train station which is now connected to the Bonaventure metro station, and is also used for events like beer festival in the old days before it moved to the convention center. There was a nice blue pine in the foreground. The blue pine was pale turquoise (PB60 + PG7 + PY43).
Old station new condos, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, July 2024
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