If you have been downtown Montreal anytime lately, this kind of scene is all too familiar. I call it Montreal orange, that particular shade of the construction sign that I mix with pyrol orange (PO73) and benzi orange (PO62). The numbers in parenthesis are the pigment code of the paint colourant that I use. To establish this painting I applied a faint outline with grey paint and a number 2 round brush, then started to fill in the colour blocks, with layers of texture and detail. Planning out where the paper would show through was essential to get the signs to pop. My intitials are hidden in one of the signs.
Peel street Montreal orange, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, November 2025
Concordia University has been in the news again for all the wrong reasons...they want to postpone the sabbatical for professors, which is a professional development year, and eliminate all the limited term appointment teachers. Even the pigeons were disgusted, they flew away from under the yellow trees at the downtown Campus.
Pigeons under yellow trees, watercolour 8 x 10" cold press, November 2025
In my authorotative Curio Folio series, this museum has come up a few times, its called MARMALADE. Since you may not believe everything I write in the Curio Folio blogs, I decided to make a painting of it just for evidence that it exists, really.
MARMALADE, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, November 2025
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