The pink house sits atop an abandoned malt factory... its actually some kind of control tower that some local artists painted pink and added green shutters, flowers, a door. It looks terribly dangerous to be up there but today when I was painting I noticed at least two people sitting in chairs on its roof, apparently having a beverage and taking selfies. Today was a surreal day... an orange sky from the wild fire smoke, and people walking around on top of the old malt factory.
Over the pink house, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, August 2025
In this view, you see the whole factory across the canal with the pink house on the center column, and the adjacent red house to its right. I noticed more people coming out of the red house, and the people atop the pink house started walking around and posing. If anyone fell off it would have been over, that is like 20 stories high up there. Its fenced off poorly, so people can easily get in. To make matters worse, there is a beer patio (st Ambroise brewery) right next door.
Orange sky over malt factory, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, August 2025
Further down at Atwater market, there was this neat scene of the orange sun reflecting in the canal. The rest of the canal was a weird neutral mauve, I made it with dark blue (PB60) and burnt sienna (PR101). To compose the scene I included a segment of the canal fence in the foreground, part of the restaurant boat in the background, with some people sitting on the wharf to its left.
Orange reflection in canal, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, August 2025
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