A couple of autumn scenes along Somerled Av

 

Walking down Somerled avenue I made a couple of paintings today although it was cold and windy the rain held off. The building on the left used to be a restaurant and now it is a food bank, they painted a colour mural on its front. Sitting on the street is a lime-green covered seating area that is there in the summer and autumn months for people to lounge although it is seldom used. To the right is the gas station, the front of a large gas-truck, and a pylon. The autumn-painting is tucked away in the top right quadrant with a nice cloud, blue sky and rusty-red tree. I used the half chroma mixtures that I worked out on Saturday downtown, that is, a mix of earth red (PBr7/PR101) and intense red-orange (PO73), and yellow (PY175). The tree trunk and branch is burnt umber (PBr7).

Mural seats gas station, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, October 2024

 

Here is a close-up of the tanker part of the truck, it stayed long enough for me to get some of the detail. It is always fun to paint the reflections on metal canisters, you just have to try and recognize what colour and values are present, then copy them with paint. Together with the structural lines, it creates the illusion of a 3D shape.

Gas tanker shine, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, October 2024