After getting back over the Champlain bridge and into Nun's island I was pretty beat physically and mentally after many hours of painting in the smoggy heat. Sitting in a cool park bench contemplating the next move and sipping some luke-warm instant coffee, I decided to press on and make some more paintings. Surely I was close to breaking my single-day painting record set last September? Getting through Verdun and back to the Lachine canal, I found this scene of a restaurant boat near Atwater market. There was a lot of detailing in the boat itself, which was crammed with patrons, and more people were waiting outside. It was another reminder of the 2018 trip to Amsterdam where I painted canals.
Lachine canal restaurant boat, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, July 2025 (No. 4574a)
It was kind of neat to be in the zone so to speak, painting smoothly and effectively despite the physical exhaustion. Here is a well-organized scene of a fruit stand at the Atwater market with a few patrons. The watermelons initially caught my attention. I also liked the yellow stripes on the awning. The painting required attention to detail and patience, since several layers of colour and texturing had to be applied to work up the details.
Atwater Market fruit stand, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, July 2025 (No. 4574b)
More free-form, this flower stand was painted by making small daubs with the #8 brush, almost like pointillism. A few forms of people, and the semi-transparent domed roof completed the scene. Considering how messy my palette was at this point, its a wonder the colours came out so well. In fact I brought another palette along with all the same paints, but never needed to use it today. They only colours I had run out of by now were bismuth vanadate yellow (PY184) and shadow green (PBk31). I still had benzi yellow (PY154) and two other greens so it was all good.
Atwater Market flower stand, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, July 2025 (No. 4575a)
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