Recently, Mobilité Montréal announced that there will be 44 new construction projects on the roads of Montreal this fall. And I was just saying how the number of projects seems to be down compared to previous years... looks like they were just saving them up to do all at once. The ministry even warned car drivers to consider public transit or riding a bike instead of driving around Montreal. This gave me an idea for a new series, although not one that I am likely to want to finish... 44 Construction Sites of Montreal. Well I did one today after painting up at the Chalet, then taking it easy up at Beaver pond for an hour, I zoomed down the south and east side of Mount Royal on my bike and came upon the massive project going on at the corner of Avenue Parc and Rue Mont-Royal. Let's call it site #1. The sign on the left said complete 2025, but I changed the date to 2029 in the painting just to be sure.
Av Parc Turn left, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, August 2025
Rue Mont-Royal looked like an archeological site, they were digging down for artifacts. The orange of course, is Montreal orange, a blend of PO62 and PO73 to create the perfect fluorescent orange for signs and pylons. There are many kinds of pylons, I am getting to be quite the expert on the matter.
Dig down rue Mont-Royal, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, August 2025
What construction site would be complete without a dumpster? This one was a bright neon yellow which contrasted nicely with the blue-violet shadow. The rear end of a bulldozer could be seen, in fact, the whole painting was composed around the small orange triangle on its back which I made using the Montreal orange blend and overlapped with strips of pyrol red (PR254). The olive greens and dark yellow complete the warm colour-scheme. These projects might be bad for cars, but for an artist it gives me a safe place to stand and no traffic to block the views.
Yellow dumpster bulldozer rear, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, August 2025
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