On the corner of Maisonneuve and Decarie there is a used bike store called Recycle Cycle, it has old bike frames adorning its facade and cars on blocks out front. The cars are probably from the Swedish auto right next door. The building is a simple rectangle with pale green siding and boxy windows. Despite the relative simplicity of the architecture it was a difficult painting to pull off on location, I was standing with my bike in a deep pile of mulch between the bike path and the fence and the wind kept blowing things around. I filled in the background elements with great speed, and spent most of the paint time on the windows, bike frames, and interior of the store with its many hanging bikes. The other day I painted the Girouard exchange which is seen just to the right on this painting, one of the shop keepers came out and said cool painting. He was there today too but didn't take a look this time.
Recycle Cycle, watercolour 8 x 10" cold press, April 2024
This was the first painting of the day, I got early to catch the sun shining on the facade of this building, in the afternoon it is backlit. I made some adjustments to the green in the final painting, and made it on a horizontal 8 x 10 instead of the vertical 5 x 7. The first painting of the day on a tip like this is a good warm up.
Recycle Cycle (study), watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, April 2024
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