Decent day for Ride

The bike riding conditions were decent today, unfortunately a lot of pedestrians also decided to go for a walk on the bike path today and I had to slalom my way to downtown. I was going pretty aimlessly, just enjoying the fact that the path was melted and there was no rain or snow. In the foreground of this painting you see part of a large pond they recently installed for no particular reason down at the old port. I guess you can hide the bodies there. But seriously, the view was pretty drab, so I tried to play up the warm highlight on the dome with the pastels of the surrounding sky and buildings. 

Dome Old Montreal Melt, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, March 2024

The idea here was to paint the ferris wheel and its reflection in the muddy melt water. Every year I try and fail to paint a good picture of the ferris wheel. The best effort had to be with the crab apple tree, done on st Armand paper last year.

Ferris Wheel Reflected in Melt, watercolour 8 x 10" cold press, March 2024