Doing this painting was fun, at first I was not sure about the composition, but the subtle angles and the Lachine canal cutting across the middle seemed to work. The paint also dried sufficiently to do the complex overlays and texturing. Copious amounts of yellow, orange and earth pigments were used.
My palette is generally very warm, that is, yellow to red colours, which played nicely into this particular scene. The cool water helps balance all the olive/orange tints.
Yellow-orange light Lachine canal, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, October 2025 (No. 4825)
I
got down to the canal path before the sun went down and made a few more
paintings of the scenery, including this twisty tree and some sumac
bushes in the foreground. In the background, there is a communication
tower, and some industrial buildings. I used a lot of orange-yellow
(PY110) and orange (PO62) in the mixes, both paints I have are made by
Schmincke brand.
Twisty tree sumac, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, October 2025 (No. 4824a)
I've painted the moon over a lot of things like
bridges,
pizza shops, and
a donut store. This time, the sky was still pale blue and the moon was over a gravel pit that was catching the orange light from the sunset. Gravel tends to be a neutral greyish red, so it reflected quite a bit of red light. The tall trees were also catching some yellow light at their tops. Painting the moon when the sky is blue is actually harder than it looks, I had been thinking about how to best do it and made some adjustments this time. Still not quite perfect but I will try again next chance. You can see another attempt of moon in a blue sky
here. But my favorite one was done early last winter of the
moon over train tracks.
Moon over gravel pit, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, October 2025 (No. 4824a)
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