Once I saw an old map of Montreal from the 1970's and Rene Levesque street was called Dorchester Boulevard. As politics changed so did the name of the street, with Dorchester being some colonial era British hero and Rene Levesque being a separatist politician. So when I was in this part of NDG and found Dorchester I guess it is the beginning of the road before it was renamed. I liked the variety of the building shapes and how the road was curved, along with the stark contrast of the new condo on the horizon which looks like some alien monolith by comparison. Somehow the grass colour came out exactly as it was, as did the shadowed side of the houses. I used deep yellow (PY110) with a touch of yellow ochre (PY43) and green (PG36) and a bit of grit, that is, greyish muck from the palette to cut down the chroma. The cars in the distance are neat too, I find my view drawn to them.
View down Dorchester, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, March 2024
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