Pale Green Glass, Montmorency Station, Orange Line
After an artful and eventful 2020, this year of 2021 was just as packed with artistic endeavors. I continued my quest to paint on location at all 68 stations of the Montreal metro. I completed the series which you can find summarized on this blog page. The painting above was done at Montmorency station in Laval. It has a dynamic composition, intriguing, pale-green glass special effect, and my favorite motif, the blue garbage can!
Car Headlights in Rain Storm
Nothing was going to stop me from painting on locations this year, not a pandemic, not snow, not rain. This surprise torrential downpour almost thwarted me, but I found a ledge to stand under and somehow got most of this painting completed on location. Our friend David from Brazil made an animation with this painting, he made the sky flash like lightning and it was awesome. This painting gets the most unlikely to succeed award!
Forest Hill Overpass, near Mount Royal
As I thought about my painting year in review, this one kept coming to mind. It was an unassuming scene of a highway overpass near Mount Royal that I painted in deep snow. The technical difficulty was high, and the results were wonderful. The delicate lilac shadows curving across the embankment, the little splash of cyan blue in the sky, the delicate wisp of snow blowing across the surface... the painting recreated a tangible atmosphere. The overpass you see was leveled and reconstructed, so this is a historical view now. If you click on that link, you will also see what I think is the most entertaining blog I wrote all year, the visit to M2!
Sugar Shack, Cap Saint-Jacques Nature Park
The Sugar Shack painting, done in Cap St. Jacques in the west island was definitely the fan favorite and perhaps was the best painting of the year. Several people on facebook wanted to buy it, and it had the highest number of blog views. Now its in the collection of two of my biggest fans, Mom and Dad! I also took a bike ride out to the east island as part of my end-to-end tour of Montreal, and made a trip to Sutton once again for some more nature.
This year I continued the World Inspired Landscapes series with countries starting with the letter B. You might be able to guess what country this one depicts! If not, the answer is here. This painting also exemplifies the use of earth colours, which I greatly expanded of late. In most of the paintings you can easily detect a wide range of warm yellows, oranges, browns and rusty reds. There is a blog page summarizing all of the World Inspired Landscapes to date.
Saturation Costs
If I had to pick an abstract of the year it has to be Saturation Costs. Creating this pandemic-inspired painting was an arduous process that I detailed in this blog. After decades of using the doodleism style this is perhaps the most accomplished of the lot. It is a dramatic, humorous, and creative portrayal of pandemic related themes.
Living Wall
I did many free-form abstracts under the premise of the palette cleanser... a good example was the living wall which we literally hung on the wall for some time.
There are still two weeks left in the year, and I plan to make some paintings in Ontario, so maybe there will be an update to my year in review.
And why not end off with the Ho Hum bird? I am glad everyone got some enjoyment and inspiration from my blog. See you next year!
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