Heading downtown again, it was still pretty quiet at the end of the long weekend, with slightly better weather than previous days. This underground highway exit is surrounded by a wide grassy area with landscaping, and a dog park off to the left. Since the snow melted, grass is starting to turn a little bit green. You can see a variety of colours in the grassy hillside from light green, to olive green, to dark yellow and shades of brown.
Underground exit Spring, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, April 2026
Speaking of green, there were several varieties of green in this scene. Has there ever been more green in a scene? I mean, ask the Dean if they seen a clean bean. Okay so I am not a poet! To make the traffic light green, I started the painting with a lime-green circle (PY154 + PG36), then outlined in black after it dried. Composing big blocks of brown is tricky, so I lightened up the sky and the traffic to cut through the muck.
Green light green dome, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, April 2026
The new Canadian Maltage factory has high conveyors covered in tin structures that look like hallways. Capturing that shade of pale green, verging on dark yellow, involved a mix of perylene green (PBk31), indo orange-yellow (PY110), and some carbon black (PBk6) to neutralize. Working in the grey areas is essential when painting Montreal, especially in these between-season times like early Spring when everything is grey and dusty.
Maltage conveyors, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, April 2026
An old industrial building, or what remains of one, its just walls being held up by steel supports. The city obviously wanted to preserve the appearance of this very old structure which probably dates back to mid 19th century. A jumbo-sized gear on the outside informs on what was made here in the old days. Iron hamster wheel maybe? Graffiti writers put their signs on the wall, including good old PJD 2026. I am looking forward to Spring flowers and green grass now, although it was still fun to do lots of painting over the long weekend.
Old wall gear, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, April 2026
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