On the main streets, most corners in Le Plateau have little shops and restaurants, like this one called Punjab Cantine. I've never been there but it looked neat, maybe worth giving a try one day. To do a painting like this, I first establish a fairly complete outline with the number 2 brush, then its a matter of 'paint by numbers'. The trees were mostly dark yellow and olive tones due to the lack of significant rain lately.
La Cantine Punjab, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, August 2025
Every so often the moon is visible on a sunny day, like you see in the painting. Its a tough effect to get right, no paint-by-numbers here. I applied a blue-grey wash, let it dry, then circled the moon with the sky. Finally, a pale blue shadow and texture was applied to the moon.
Moon sunny day, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, August 2025
The top of this building had a memorizing array of shapes and objects jumbled up. I walked around with my bike for awhile to find an angle on it, it is just to the south east corner of the Jean Talon Market. Even then I wasn't sure until the plane went by and that made the scene. Painting a plane like this in the sky is tricky because you have to paint around it with blue paint, which worked out perfectly here. There is no white paint in watercolour to go over the sky, so that tends to be a tricky effect.
Plane over comm units, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, August 2025
This building is a public community center now, but it must have once been a religious structure based on the ornate sculptures of faces in the wall. Somehow, the colour and texture of the faces were identical to the brick... a pale yellow ochre/raw sienna hue. The entire front lawn was covered in wild flowers and trees. It was so hot today, I stuck to the shade of trees or buildings for most of the paintings.
Face in wall, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, August 2025
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