Falaise Escarpment forest

In the background you see the spire of the st Jacques bridge up near the Glen hospital, with highway 15 running north south. To the left is the Falaise escarpment area, which used to be the banks of Otter Lake before they drained it for the Lachine canal. Locals have gone through and pulled all the old tires and junk out of the forest, and now the city has announced a re-naturalization plan for the area. I hope they can get rid of all the creeper vines that are pulling trees down and maybe make a walking path so people can enjoy some nature. Each tree had a different shade of green ranging from olive to bright green, interspersed with orange. 

Falaise Escarpment Hwy 15, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, September 2025

In this sombre scene, you are looking west along Notre Dame avenue. The gantry crane that sits beside the Lachine canal can be seen on the horizon. As Autumn approaches, these decorative shrubs turn coppery-yellow and dark red. The red shrub is done with mixes of perylene maroon (PR179), quin magenta (PV55), black (PBk6), and dabs of red (PR254) on top. If you want dark red its best to add black, because adding green will give it a brown tint. 

Yellow and red shrubs, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, September 2025

I just thought it was funny that this anxiety-inducing highway sign was saying to make a U turn. Its always fun to paint the train tracks too, although I was rather hoping the train would be parked here today. I am standing on the Falaise walking path that goes from Hwy 138 all the way to the Rue Pullman bridge. The Rue Pullman bridge can be crossed on a wide bike path to access the Kruger recycling and packaging factory and the twisty groove area that I have painted before. 

You turn? watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, September 2025