It was a cool and breezy fall day with a mostly blue sky and bright sun. These are the train tracks that go across Elerdale street on the way to the Westhaven neighborhood where there is the Snowdon bakery and the City fruterie. Usually I only paint around here during the week so it was neat to be here on the relative peace and quiet on a Sunday. I like the colour scheme of this painting, the earthy warm colours meld well with the soft blue and pale cyan sky. The clouds turned out well, and I added my signature in graffiti.
Fall colours and tracks, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, October 2024
Harley street is the main drag with the stores. Across the way are long blocks of apartments, with tall trees. This one was a reddish orange with green mixed in. Its a subtle thing to paint since the red is intermixed with pale olive green. On the scanner it all comes out looking more red than the actual painting, where it has an orange tint.
Colourful tree Harley street, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, October 2024
Just some hints of the fall colours, this painting shows the train tracks where commuters would normally board the train at rush hour. The sign was a lot taller than shown, it was all the way up in the sky but I decided to compose it lower to fit in the scene. For today's painting I avoided burnt sienna in the foliage mixtures (although it was used almost pure for the train tracks), and also minimized yellow ochre. Most of the foliage was made with variations of green (PG36), yellow (PY97), orange-yellow (PY110), orange (PO62) and red-orange (PO73). For dark areas I dabbed in some perylene green (PBk31). The goal was to lighten up the foliage mixtures a notch as compared to yesterday and I think it worked out well, although there was nothing wrong with yesterday's paintings either. I prefer to look at art like a journey where you try to move forward and continue to explore.
Tracks and sign, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, October 2024
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