This painting was done on the same corner as an older painting I posted in 2008 called Biere et Vin Froid, St. Joseph St., if you put the two together it would be like a panorama. The corner store depicted is a family run business, amazing such a thing still exists in this day and age of big box stores. On the right is Parc Ave, just above the tree line you see the bookstore building, I featured it in another recent painting with all the orange traffic signs. Maybe I should do a larger panorama painting some time in the studio, it's a lot of work but I am starting to find my inspiration again for landscape painting.
Landscape painting in the city has always been difficult, the sight lines are often blocked by buildings or cars (when you sit down parked cars or trucks can really get in the way), and the sun can easily be blocked by sky scrapers. I have found too that the subject matter can be a little hard to get excited about, painting the facade of a condo is more of an architectural challenge rather than a purely artistic one. In this painting, I was attracted to the primary colours, the yellow umbrella, and the sharp crayon-colours of the vegtables. It was also cool how this store had an apartment on top, so you kind of get this feeling of the plateau... a residential and commercial mosaic.
5x7" cold press. 2012
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