The evening of the 29th of October was a half-moon, which I knew from consulting timeanddate.com. It reached its peak around 7:45PM which is about the time I did this painting, however, it was partly overcast which created an eerie glow around the moon. Underneath, the twisty highways of the Turcot intechange were busy with cars zipping back and forth.
Half moon over Turcot, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, October 2025
Making my way down to the Lachine canal bike path, I found a good view of the pink house atop of the old Canada Maltage factory. Somehow, someone found a way to light up the interior of the pink house which got me to thinking, maybe people actually live up there even though the factory is off limits. Its also covered in graffiti from top to bottom. The sky was my favorite combo of indo blue (PB60) and pyrol orange (PO73)... I had duplicate blobs on my palette specifically for painting night skies. That allowed me to keep the colours clean... the other indo blob was for making grey, like you see on the building, and the other pyrol orange blob was for making bright reds, which came in handy for car tail-lights. The pink colour is quin magenta (PR122).
Living on top of the world?, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, October 2025
This was the location I wanted to paint tonight... well, last night as its past midnight already! The moon was off to the south and fuzzy so I went and a did another painting, then returned when the moon had cleared the cloud level and appeared directly over the montains of glass at the recycling factory in Point st Charles. Incredibly bright floodlights were all around, it was like painting during the day but with a night sky. In reality the glass piles were not sparkling quite this much, so I embellished for maximum effect.
Half moon over glass piles, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, October 2025
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