Street scenes from Little Burgundy

 Notre Dame street runs all the way from st Henri through Little Burgundy and into Old Montreal. Here is a typical view of the shops and facades in Little Burgundy. There were a lot of trendy looking restaurants and antique stores along the way, and one even had a lineup of young people waiting to get in for brunch. A painting like this is more of a drawing, I outlined most of it with black paint before filling in the colours. The tree was over painted using dark yellow, green and brown.

View down Notre Dame, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, August  2024 (No. 3949)

 

I guess a plaster and stone house is better than a plastered and stoned house? I don't know but this one had both, plaster on the top and old looking stone work on the bottom. Off in the distance was Mount Royal and a view of the General Hospital.

Plaster and stone house, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, August  2024 (No. 3950)

 

An art wall really brightened up the location, it even had some great figure drawings that I omitted from the painting. In the foreground there were magenta 'bee bombs' and yellow brown eyed Susans. There were also white flowers but I omitted them too. Soaring skyscraper condos are slowly dominating the skyline, you see one of the new ones in the top right. I left it deliberately black and white to contrast against the rest of the colourful scene.

Colourful wall and flowers, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, August  2024 (No. 3951a)