The whole south part of st Henri near the canal is being rapidly built up with new condos as you see in the background. In the foreground is a new park they completed a year or so ago. It was dreadful for some reason my legs were itchy and I had mosquito bites from painting the canal yesterday evening, so I really had to grit my teeth through this one. Eventually it subsided and I could carry on with the painting.
New park new condos, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, September 2024
For the next painting I stayed sitting in the same park bench, just looking to the right at the community flower garden. There was actually a black iron fence around the garden which I had planned to include, but seeing how nice the flowers and path turned out I just left it as is.
Community flower garden, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, September 2024
Next to the old Canadian malt factory silos is a hipster restaurant, partly shown on the bottom left. The staffers were showing up as I painted, getting the restaurant ready for the hipsters, no doubt they were cutting the avocados and preparing the toast.
Restaurant next to old silos, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, September 2024
I was having some trouble on this trip so had to just keep painting, like this scene of the pink house on the shadowed side of the malt factory. It is a massive scene with tons of detail, but here the idea was to just to capture a glance upwards. I did a super detailed version of
this scene a few years ago, so whenever I see this view I think of that painting. Some scenes turned out great and then that's it, while other scenes, like basically the whole Lachine canal is always good for a painting or two.
Pink house shadow side, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, September 2024
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