Enough with the graff

Enough with the graffiti, or as you would say in lingo, 'graff'. The city of Montreal is clearly under seige by the graffiti artists, who like to refer to themselves as writers, aka vandals. Everywhere I ride there are big bubble letters and incomprehensible scribbles including several that popped up on our street corner recently. If one shows up on the walls of our condo, the city will give us a citation, and the condo fees will be used to clean it off. In the painting above, I finally found an original, 'illegal' example of Scan's graff... he was the infamous graffiti artist who passed away in 2017. Its on one of the cross beams holding up the Rosemont bridge.. I made it more legible in the painting. Also seen, are the crew including the ringleader PJD25, his sidekick SODAX, with FRITZ, CILS and DDAWG making an appearance.   

Scan and the crew, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, November 2025

The whole area around the train tracks is plastered in spray paint. In this scene (thats st Laurent street in the background), a wall is in silhouette with the sun just going down. I liked the similarity between the autumn colours in the adjacent trees with the graffiti art on the wall. Of course, I changed the initals to be PJD because, why not?

Silhouette autumn colours, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, November 2025