Today after picking up some fresh soil for one of our palm trees, I zipped down to the canal using the new bike path than connects NDG to the bike path. There is a large steel giant, probably an old off loading device for the industrial activity that used to thrive in this area. You can also see the bike path and one of the several foot bridges that spans the canal. The water was a dark turquoise, I mixed ith with indo blue (PB60) perylene green (PBk31) and some carbon black (PBK6). The ripples were painted with transparent brown (PR101) and a bit of raw sienna (PBr7).
Lachine Canal Steel Giant, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, September 2021 (No. 2820)
There is a little copse of interesting trees growing along the canal. On top they look like an aspen or poplar, on bottom they are a rigged bark almost like a pine tree. Perhaps they are some sort of hybrid. I always wanted to make a painting of them, and the scene is much more spectacular than you see in this small painting. I composed the tree so that it reached into the sky, and had no visible bottom to it. The shapes in the middle ground are shipping containers, while the tree line on the horizon is actually NDG and the secret spot they recently developed into a bike and pedestrian path.
Hybrid Tree, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, September 2021 (No. 2821)
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