At the end of Point st Charles, there is a shipping container depot and train yard. Today I found a viewing platform they built...a walking pathway on a hill overlooking the train yard that offered this vantage point of Montreal and the shipping containers. The other day on my blog, I was lamenting the fact that these shipping containers are hard to paint. Today I took an abstract approach, just varying the containers as squares or rectangles, filling them in with a variety of colours, and adding a few shadows here and there for a touch of realism. It was more like doing a palette cleanser abstract! The rest of the scene is sandwiched by the Montreal skyline and the rail yard in blues and browns. It worked out really well, and its safe to say I finally got a decent painting done of the shipping containers.
Montreal Rectangles, watercolour 8 x 10" cold press, November 2024
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