There really wasn't much colour to find other than this one type of tree that was turning yellow-orange-olive. To compensate, I found a place to stand on the main drag in China Town, De la Gauchetière. A popular restaurant called Restaurant Jade had orange and red signage, with magenta brick on the second level. Bright red lanterns adorned the tree, which was a mix of lemon and lime. The entire tree leaves were painted over top using dark paint, and bismuth vanadate yellow (PY184) mixtures.
Restaurant Jade, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, October 2025
This fancy Chinese-style pagoda lines a small public square where people were doing tai-chi exercises. The lack of red and orange in the trees was made up for by the orange, brick-red and yellow highlights of the pagoda. Again, I overlaid the tree, this time using the negative space technique. That's were you leave the paper blank where the tree needs to go, then fill it in last. Hopefully we get some real autumn colours soon, but tomorrow calls for a hot, summery day instead.
Pagoda tree lanterns, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, October 2025
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