With more short trips to Bolton these days I have had the occasion to make some Toronto paintings on stopovers. It was kind of mixed fortune here, the train was a little too late to make the early GO connection which gave me an extra few hours in the smouldering hot city on Monday. The heat wave was in full force, something like 35℃ with over 40 on the humidex, but I stayed in the shade and had very light clothing on with the trusty old bucket hat. No doubt I looked like a tourist but nobody seemed to care, a few people took pictures of me painting. This scene shows the west side of the Union train station (on the left of the painting) with an overpass and two enormous 100 story skyscrapers in the background. The street going under the overpass is York street.
York street underpass, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, June 2025
The sun had gone behind a skyscraper leaving the CN tower illuminated strongly from the right side. Its always a tough subject matter to paint correctly especially when looking up at the tower, but I think the perspective is okay this time around. I made a neat one of the
CN tower in winter in 2023, although the conditions could have not been more opposite, heat wave versus snow blast.
CN tower heat, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, June 2025
An enormous 'shard' shaped glass skyscraper now dominates the skyline looking east towards the Union station. In the foreground, a swerving driveway descends into the underground parking lot. The iconic Fairmount Royal York hotel is seen in the upper left quadrant of the painting. If I had more time I could have made this one a bit bigger, there was a lot going on in the scene.
Toronto swerves, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, June 2025
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