The Mile End neighborhood used to be farms for as far as the eye could see until Montreal grew and grew bigger. Now it is a densely populated urban environment that seems to have a cafe on every corner. This scene was on Fairmount avenue looking east across the st Laurent boulevard. The red brick buildings have a few popular breakfast restaurants, while the grey brick building on the right used to have an Indian restaurant but I couldn't tell if it still was. I was expecting the weather to get better but it started to snow and there was a lot of slush on the roads. One of the blogs I follow, Liz Steel, is doing a challenge to sketch 100 people in a week. I am not a fan of such challenges, but its fair to say that there were hundreds of people in this one painting, most of them sitting in the restaurants!
Hundreds of People, Mile End, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, February 2023 (No. 3402a)
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