The corner of Cavendish and st Jacques is always busy, especially around rush hour when people are coming back from Montreal and driving into NDG, or vice versa. The right turn from here goes down st Jacques, past the grocery store and eventually leads to the highway. Turning left takes you to the Glen Yard area and st Henri. The trees you see in the distance, painted in a gold-on-purple style, are part of the escarpment, and the big piles of snow are from the grocery store parking lot. The reason I stood here was due to the huge flood lights from the car lot, which provided enough light to see, and there was a space to set up my bike. I got most of the painting completed on location but had to sharpen the lines and add the light standards, initials and trees (with yellow ochre PY43) when it dried out. Try to imagine standing on this corner, snow coming down like a blizzard, hundreds of cars along with trucks and buses, then make a painting. It was one of those "impossible but I will give it a try" paintings and it turned out pretty darned good.
Corner traffic winter, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, January 2025
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