The games area in Trenholme park is usually lit up with amber lights and strong white flood lights intended to allow people to play the games in the dark. They have a croquet pitch, shuffleboard style areas, and horseshoes. Only problem is that the area is rarely or almost never used by people althogh we gave it a try once or twice. A large billboard sign says that they plan to redevelop the park to be more modern and have a variety of things for people, although I would vote for planting more trees instead. Montreal does have a habit of stuffing their parks with installments to the point where nobody can move around. In the painting, you see the stone structure that houses an indoor volleyball court and acts as the voting station in elections, with the iron fence surrounding the games area. I am standing under one of the white floodlights using it to do the painting. I really like the sky and the right part of the painting, to make the dark blue I added a touch of carbon black to indo blue (PBk6 + PB60) which Van Gogh used to do in his last paintings. He would have used ultramarine though, indo blue didn't quite exist back then but he would have liked it no doubt... many of his paintings contain very deep dark blues including his famous starry night painting.
Trenholme park night glow, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, November 2024 (No. 4145a)
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