Chester avenue is a nondescript road in NDG with a few parks on it and old houses from the 50's and 60's. It cuts across many different cultural areas including Italian, Jamaican, East European, and Jewish cultural areas. NDG is funny that way, being somehow segregated even though there are no barriers. Maybe the tree here was a metaphor? As the trees grow the city cuts them back to prevent contact with the telephone and power lines, resulting in growth on both sides of the lines. The rain cloud in the background mirrored the shape of the tree. The city is also redoing the water mains in our entire neighborhood street by street, to do so they dig squares in the road and block most of it off. This gave me an opportunity (it was after construction hour, but before the sun went down) to set up on the road which was blocked off from traffic. Normally I can't get an angle like this. To make the greens really glow I used isoindolone a yellow-orange (PY110) mixed with phthalo green yellow shade (PG36), and for the dark greens added perylene green (PBk31), indo blue (PB60), and a touch of carbon lamp black (PBk6). These combinations give a rich range of greens skewed towards bright orange or dark blue. 5 x 7" cold press, B side, watercolour, August 2020
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