Stretch the Legs, Summit M2

On the weekend after my trip out East I decided to hike up to the top of Mount Royal, otherwise known as M2 on this blog. There in winter I did one of the best paintings of the year, the overpass covered in snow with an incredible curved shadow. I was dismayed to find out that the whole thing had been leveled. Dismayed, but not surprised, Montreal has a penchant for the bulldozer. The sky had the most interesting wispy clouds that I created with wet and wet and some lifting techniques. The overpass would have been about in the middle here.

Wispy Clouds Over the Overpass (which is now over), watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, June 2021 (No. 2698)

 

The main challenge of the day was to see if I could make the 15 km round trip by foot, and if my gear would stay in one piece. Well my shoulder strap broke but I could manage to fix it, and I forgot to bring a sunscreen to do a refresh. But otherwise, I made it to the highest point of the mountain at 233m. This painting is at a classic location around Beaver Lake, a steep hillside where in the winter kids toboggan. I did a more psychedelic interpretation of this scene a few years ago. Oh yeah, I also updated a painting which one of my eagle-eyed readers noticed had a missing boat panel. Good catch Dad.

Beaver Lake Walkers, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, June 2021 (No. 2699)