Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Touristy and not-so toursity scenes

Rue st Paul is the main tourist drag that intersects with the iconic Jacques Cartier Place with all the vendors and restaurants. Looking west, this scene depicts the crowd using simplified dots and dashes in a variety of colours on top of a blue shadow. The buildings are various shades of grey and brick colours.  

Rue st Paul tourists, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, July 2025

La Cave à Manger... the eating cave... had some prominent yellow umbrellas out front to block the strong sun coming across the top of the Bonsecours market. Working up the outline with the sharp new #4 holbien brush, the colours were infused with yellow. Two bins, one for garbage one for recycling sat next to a bench in the foreground. 

Yellow umbrellas Cave, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, July 2025


After the challenging reflections and complicated urban scenes, these dumpsters were a lot more fun to paint. Its the first time painting yellow, green and cyan dumpsters, to add to the blue, magenta and yellow dumpsters painted earlier in the year. 

Yellow green cyan dumpsters, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, July 2025 

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