From the south side of Dorchester park there was a good view of the new Habs condos, built on Montreal Canadiens' Hockey club land and branded with the CH logo, they stand tall above the whole city. With the gloomy, cloudy sky, there were all kinds of colours gleaming off the structures. Instead of being accurate I went with more of the feel and shapes instead.
Habs condos trees, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, September 2025
Here is a close up view, looking directly up at the towers from within the area of the Bell Centre Arena. Its meant to be more accurate, I checked the angles, matched the colours and values, and narrowly avoided rain. On top of the lower building, across the front, there was a small shrub which gave some natural element in among the glass towers.
Habs looking up, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, September 2025
Ken Dryden, the famous goalie of the Habs died this week, and so I went by his number plaque and saw a few bouquets of flowers placed there by fans. Out on Avenue-des-Candiens-de-Montréal there are walls of gleaming glass sky-scrapers with the old Windsor station made of sand-stones on the left. I tried to get the correct number of floors on the sky-scrapers... which was about 40 and I came up a little short but its a small piece of paper. The one on the right is actually built on a protruding angle which makes it even more fun to paint! I think the painting conveys the magnitude of the scene quite well. With an 8 x 10 I could probably get all 40 stories.
Walls of glass, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, September 2025
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