With summer officially here as of yesterday, the heat is turning up! In fact, it will be a blistering 35 Celsius on Monday and Tuesday with humidity. Today was on the warm side, with a cool breeze and partly cloudy to keep it manageable. This painting shows the Lachine canal with three bridges, old, new, and newer. The old bridge, you see just the end of it on the left of the painting, it used to rotate in order to allow a train to cross or a boat to cross. The iron bridge going off to the middle right is the current train bridge which carries the VIA trains and commuter trains going to and fro Montreal downtown. The angled bridge up in the sky is the commuter light rail that goes Montreal to off-island.
Old, new and newer bridges, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, June 2025
The Canada Maltage factory is still very active, trucks were going in and out of the backlot today, and on occasion you can smell malting barley. The tall passageway up in the sky travels from large silos to the long malting building. The idea is to sprout the barley slightly then boil the sugar out of it to make malt, which then goes on to make beer.
Malt trailer, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, June 2025
The tunnel up in the sky probably has a conveyor belt inside, it seems likely to bring grain from the silos into the malting area. I need a guided tour of this place to understand how it works. From an artistic standpoint, there is a never-ending supply of painting material in and around this factory, which has the iconic Farine Five Roses sign on top.
Tunnel in sky, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, June 2025
watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, June 2025
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