Autumn leaf colours have been hard to find this year so far. Like here, you can just make out some bright yellow looking under the bridge. In the foreground, there is an old industrial building painted magenta and brick-red with graffiti, and a curving bridge off to the upper right.
Trees through bridge, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, October 2025
Getting a better view of a red tree with a squirrel nest at the very top, I made this painting and included a yellow tree and an olive-coloured tree. The red is fairly high chroma but slightly neutralized, and more orange toward the bottom, greyish at the top due to the sky effect. The red is pyrol (PR254) with burnt sienna (PR101) in the middle of the tree, with orange (PO62) mixed in at the bottom and dilute blue (PB60) dabbed in at the top. Subtle variations like this are barley perceptible but still give a sense of atmosphere.
Red tree squirrel nest, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, October 2025
The back side of a long factory-turned-residential structure is covered in creeper vines that turned a bright, dark red with some yellow and green trees in front. To make the creeper-vine red I mixed perylene maroon (PR179) with a touch of pyrol red (PR254). The tracks were a simple combination of burnt sienna, carbon black (PBk6) with a greyish background (PB60 + PR101).
Yellow green red leaves near train tracks, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, October 2025
I took another crack at the El Pro factory, also turned condo a long time ago, and got some decent results. There were actually about 20 windows going across in the view, but I only painted about 7 across. If the paint was drying better I could have squeezed in more detail. On the way back, this structure is more impressive with lighting at night, especially in the back where I painted the other day.
El Pro front side view, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, October 2025
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