Getting off to an early start to avoid the heat wave, I started off with a few paintings in a new park in st. Henri called Lac-à-la-Loutre Park. It was just a few years ago this park was a vacant lot of gravel, now its populated with paths, flowers, play areas, and a community garden. In the background, you can see the iconic pink house with its neighbor, the tomato-coloured house. As an artist, the pink house provides me with an endless source of motifs, the other day I painted the pink house at night from a distance.
Lac-à-la-Loutre Park Pink house, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, July 2025
What painting trip would be complete without a painting of a dumpster or garbage bins? In this case there was a recycling bin and a garbage bin, although it was the brown-eyed Susans next to them that caught my eye. Painting the white flowers in the foreground, which appear to be Queen Anne's Lace, was done with controlled washes on the grass, path, and reeds. Since there is no white paint in watercolour, one has to paint around the white highlight areas.
Pathway and Bins, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, July 2025
Walking with my bike on the sidewalk on st Ambrose street, I switched sides to take advantage of the shade of the old Maltage factory. This door was striking... a behemoth of a door and with age. A small plaque on the door with small font said something to the effect that "This door from 1905 is made of steel and covered with a thin layer of wood. There is no point in trying to break into it because of the steel panels." ... that seemed funny to me. As I painted the scene, amazingly, I clearly heard somebody sneezing on the other side of the door. Maybe the door was unbreakable but some squatters sure found another way in. At least they know that this door is secure.
Steel door 1905, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, July 2025
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