Afternoon and Evening in Verdun

Cilei and I  had a belated birthday dinner in Verdun with Cilene and Fritz. She went down early and I rode down with my paint supplies and made this painting after my haircut in Mile End. Labelle park is a little park off of Lasalle Boulevard where it meets Atwater Avenue. The trees were just starting to put out leaf buds and the beginnings of leaves. In the background there is a new modern looking condo with black walls and green windows, and off to the right are some of the water works buildings. The trees and leaves were painted over top of the rest of the painting after it had mostly dried.

Labelle Park Bench, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, April 2023 (No. 3435b)

The restaurant, a Hindu-style Indian restaurant called Bombay, was about a 20 minute walk down Wellington street. Every time we go down there, there seems to be more restaurants and cafes. During the 20 minute walk we must have seen close to a hundred restaurants, cafes, and little boutique stores. It was really hopping. After dinner I rode back to NDG on my bike, and finally stopped to attempt a painting of the Hydro Quebec station on Lasalle Boulevard. The sun usually sets behind it, creating an eerie looking scene completed with the tall trees in silhouette. It was a hard painting to do. In retrospect I would have shown more sky and less cars. The sky had a crescent moon and bright star that was probably some planet or another.

Verdun Powerplant at Dusk, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, April 2023 (No. 3433b)