After painting up on Maisonneuve I continued the theme of store fronts with this scene on Wellington street in Verdun. For people of my parents generation they knew Verdun as a working neighborhood surrounded by warehouses and factories. Nowadays it is rated the coolest place on the planet, with Wellington street at the epicenter. We went to a great Tandoori restaurant on my birthday, and today I got some takeaway and brought it home today. This scene shows various storefronts with their colourful signage. The whole facade including the balconies was added on top of the old building which would have had a relatively flat facade in the old days. A lot of Verdun is being gentrified in this manner, which had the negative effect of pricing the neighborhood out of range for long time locals.
Wellington Street Signs, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, April 2024
I took another crack at painting the Eglise metro, its one of the most difficult stations to make look good. It looks like a concrete and metal cheese cake went through the blender or something. This angle has some potential but it would look better if I can somehow fit in the bus and more people.
de l'Eglise lamp, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, April 2024
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