A few scenes along Wellington east

Heading back home along Wellington I stopped to make another painting of the sunflowers on the corner of Robert Bourassa boulevard. Last year around the same time, I did a painting here and called it Sunflowers in the City, so I decided to go with the same name here but its the 2025 edition. This time, I reduced the amount of foliage so that the cars could show through a bit better since its an important part of the theme. The way that the yellow, brown and olive colours of the sunflowers play off the blue and grey glass buildings in the background adds visual interest. I like how the sunflowers were reflecting off of the passing cars which you see in the lower left. I omitted the traffic light in the background just to avoid too many distractions in the composition. If you want to see distractions, check out the construction site paintings I posted recently. 

Sunflowers in the city 2025, watercolour 8 x 10" cold press, August 2025

Wellington begins (or ends?) at McGill street downtown, where there is a large manicured park full of interlocking bricks and concrete planters. There is also a very old, circa 1960's brown concrete tube-shaped platform with a staircase winding up to the top. I lugged my bike up and made a painting of one of the alleys looking downwards, its probably rue de Soeurs-Grises, and the park in question is Charon Brothers park. Definitely religious sounding names. Most of the city is in shadow at this time of day, just the building in the background was catching a bit of sun, and the headlights from a passing car illuminated the alley. 

Illuminated alley, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, August 2025