Just past the train bridge there is a grocery store adorned with colourful murals, as depicted in the background of this painting. In the foreground there was a manicured garden area with yellow shrubs, lilacs, and trees with fresh leaves. The lilac colour is magenta (PR122), phthalo blue red shade (PB15) and a slight touch of neutralizing green (PG7). The neutralizing helps cut the chroma. As shown, it has a nice pastel violet like the lilacs have.
Lilacs in ville st Henri, watercolour 5 x 7" 80lb, May 2024
In the foreground there is a newly renovated park area with a community garden, seating areas, walking paths and kids play areas. The building in the middle is a gym of sorts. In the background, looming ominously, is the derelict Canadian Maltage factory that I have painted many times, along with the pink house suggested at the top of the painting. The old factory was hovering like a UFO or something, although it gives a great character to the neighborhood.
New and Old (Pink House), watercolour 8 x 10" 80lb, May 2024
After painting in ville st Henri I cut up to the bike path and headed back along the canal just north of Verdun. Under the power lines there is a warehouse complex that is heavily graffitied on it side with colourful, splashy block letters. Continuing with the theme of the day I put my own initials in the graffiti. It was a surprisingly hard painting to do, as I got into it, the odd angles and jigsaw puzzle of elements were tough to fit together. Looking at it now it worked out, the keys to the composition were the corrugated roof on top and the tree on the left (under which I was standing to get some shade).
Graffiti next to path, watercolour 5 x 7" 80lb, May 2024
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