Part of the reason for the whole trip was to swing by the brewery district of Lasalle, I found it a few weeks ago and decided to come back when some leaves were out. This scene is looking at the back of the brewery from an adjacent parking lot. Someone walked up and asked if I would give them the painting when it was done but I said no. Zero dollars was a pretty low opening bid. I only gave one painting away recently, it was the car wash, when the car wash guy asked for it. Maybe it was joke, do people want paintings of a parking lot and factory? Who knows... maybe I am like the "Monet of the parking lots" and my paintings will be worth millions one day.
Labatt Brewery rear view, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, May 2025
When I saw this thing and deduced that it was the way they pumped beer into beer trucks, or something like that, I had to paint it. When you see something you have never seen before, paint it!. The blue sky was daunting, and I was a little rusty you see a few brush strokes here and there. I liked how the tubing went into a hole in the wall of the factory. This is like, the source of beer, kind of like a fountain-of-youth, but it makes you drunk instead. "Beer boom" has to be my favorite painting title of the year. Similar to "Crow on a pile of snow" that was another title that made my laugh to myself.
Beer boom, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, May 2025
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