Atwater Market, Updated catalogue count, fall 2024

I made this painting last weekend on the way to Point st Charles, it was done near the Artwater market near the Lachine Canal. These tracks are no longer in use, at least, I was standing on them making a painting so I hope so. Other people were walking on them, and the tracks go straight through the busy Atwater market, so there was no way they are still in use. Choo choo! But seriously, you can also see the green footbridge, and some of the city skyline in the distance.  

The other reason for this blog was to give an update on the catalogue, which is a spreadsheet of mostly all of the paintings I have done since the first original painting in 1989. The new line is 5232 paintings in total, and I was at 4438 by the end of last year. I had to a double check, that means I completed 794 paintings this year so far. There was a time when I thought 100 paintings per year was a lot, and the most I did was 8 in one day in Spain 1998. This year, there was one day I made 17 paintings, and quite often I was doing 20+ on weekends. Its not my style to boast about things like this, in fact, my initial plan this year was to paint less numbers with bigger size and more detail. I ended up doing more numbers of paintings, with bigger sizes, and more detail. Maybe there is something wrong with me. But as an artist, sometimes you are just along for the ride down the tracks. 

Tracks and footbridge Atwater Market, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, November 2024 (No. 4152b)