After taking public transit to and from Little Italy I walked up to the Côte St-Luc Shopping Centre and made a painting in Gilbert-Layton park on the way back. The original plan was to paint a tree in the foreground, but the background started to look interesting enough. The foreground tree was suggested with some branches in the top left and shadows across the snowy park. Similar to the recent canal paintings, I used artistic license to re-compose the scene. I took great care in making sure the center line of the apartment was 90 degrees perpendicular to the paper, its something I have been working on for a few years now to make sure the apartment is not the leaning tower of Pisa! Unfortunately I didn't realize that with all the blowing wind, the paper had shifted in its frame, which made the building crooked when I took it out at home. With a little clever cropping I managed to get a good image for the blog so you get the idea.
Apartment near Gilbert-Layton Park, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, March 2023 (No. 3416b)
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