When composing a scene it can help to use triangles. Often the triangles can be found in the foreground like an angled road or a grassy embankment. In this case, the highway overpass provided the triangle shape in the top left. It took a little while for me to find this scene, I slowly circled around a few times on my studio-bike before setting up under the highway just next to the bike path. The bike path here connects the Lachine Canal to the St Lawrence river and eventually goes out to Parc de Dieppe and St. Helen's Island. Even though most of the scene was in shadow, there were streaks of light coming through, and more light reflecting off the massive Farine Five Roses structure that you can just see to the top right. I quite like this painting, it is reminiscent of Edward Hopper who painted desolate Americana scenes.
Under the Overpass, near Farine Five Roses, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, May 2022 (No. 3121b)
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