Virtually all of NDG is some type of private property- housing, stores, city buildings, schools- with very little green space or park space. Along this part of Grand Boulevard there is a small park where I made a painting of an apartment building. For this painting I sat on a unique spot that was possible due to some road construction. Most of the block was cut off from traffic, and there was no actual construction making it very easy to find a spot to sit in the middle of the road. To my back was a temporary fence. The low sun was casting long shadows across the boulevard. If there were more places to sit around town I could do even better paintings, but NDG is not big on making quality of life improvements, for example they removed the one bike path we had along Terrebonne, and they wont plant any trees on Somerled street. Oh well, tomorrow I will go down to the river and get a few last paintings in while the weather lasts.
Grand Boulevard Construction NDG, 4 x 8" hot press 300lbs, watercolour, November 2020
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