Getting down to the canal was an easy bike ride because all the snow and ice has melted. This scene is somewhere between the NDG entry point and Ville st Pierre, looking across to what must be Lasalle on the other side. A lot of this area has no specific affiliation, I once called a painting 'Nowhere Montreal' done along an industrial road near upper Lachine. The main idea here was to capture the brilliant, warm caramel tones of the wood bark set against an olive green strip of grass, and a translucent icy canal. The low sun was casting long shadows across the icy surface. While it was nice and sunny and well above zero, there was still a bitter wind to content with. The next few days call for very warm spring like weather and I suppose the ice will be all gone then.
Shadows on Icy Canal, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, February 2024
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