Next to the auto-mechanic, across Walkley Street is the Metro grocery store, not the metro transit, but the grocery store. Slowly but surely I am painting a panorama of the complete view from the front of my apartment condo. There is a great place to sit on a terraced garden wall, and it is far back from the sidewalk. With a daily work schedule that looks like a game of tetris (meetings, lab work, teaching crammed in to the calendar), it has been difficult to get out and paint. From the garden terrace I can just sit down for 20 minutes in front of the condo and paint whatever I see there. This painting is deceptively complex- in fact, it was pure technique and accuracy. The drawing (which I do with paint) takes most of the time, then you kind of colour by numbers after that. Of course, it's harder than that, it was kind of a challenge. The grocery actually used to be a Steinberg Grocery, for a long time there was a logo in the tiles leading up to the front door, but they renovated that recently and there is no more memory of what it once was. The sign to the left actually said Marche Somerled, but that wouldn't fit so I wrote my initials.
Metro Grocery Store, Somerled Avenue, NDG, 4 x 6" cold press, watercolour, November 2020
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