Fleischmann's yeast silos

Painting down by the river and there was an alluring smell of yeast in the air. Thinking it was beer brewing, I followed the odor which brought me to the Fleischmann's baking yeast factory which is a massive complex. A row of 6 or 7 silos could be seen, with a tall, red-brick structure behind them. Off to the right there were a bunch of vats and water towers. I would have stayed and painted more but it was getting late and I wanted to ride home while there was still sun light. When in Lasalle you also have to account for getting lost because the roads are like a pile of tiddly-winks, like at weird angles. Luckily I found Dollard which leads north west, back to the bridge into st Pierre and back to NDG.  

Recently I ran out of red ochre, instead of buying more, I decided to try and use up the excess of burnt sienna and pyrol red that I have. So in this painting, I mixed burnt sienna which is normally a chocolatey brown, with the pyrol red to give the sensational brick red. Doing this also helped keep my other blob of pyrol red clean. It worked great, I may just do this as a regular thing. Riding down the rest of this street, which was Rue Airlie, there were more good scenes, and then turning left on Newman there were more good scenes, at least for open industrial kind of scenes. When the trees get leaves it would be a good place to go and paint again. Have to leave some things for the future.

Fleischmann's yeast silos,  watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, April 2025