Across from Cabot square sits the old Forum where the Canadiens used to play. Nowadays its a mall with several street-level shops and restaurants including a dollar store. The dollar store is barely visible in the painting, just a streak of yellow off to the bottom right. I was mostly standing on this location because there is a wide ledge overhead which provided some shelter from the brief snow storm that hit Montreal this afternoon. People even had umbrellas, and I was wearing a combination of winter wear and rain wear. For a more pleasant view of this area check out the sunflowers that were growing in Cabot square this summer.
Old Forum corner, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, November 2025
To complete this painting, I stood next to a bus stop shelter which blocked the direct wind and snow which was coming down close to vertically. The old Forum building is in the background, with the Cabot square paths and landscaping in the foreground. There were a lot more trees than this, but the conditions precluded any overlay detailing. Its always an adjustment period going into the winter. The truth is, that I enjoy painting in the winter, in fact I did a few on a trip out to Montreal in the 1990's, I will paste one below...
Cabot square snow storm, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, November 2025
Here is one of the old paintings I did on a trip to Montreal in 1997, it was the first one I remember doing on the trip, which probably makes it the first location painting I ever did in Montreal. Prior to that, I had been painting on location in Ontario for a few years.
Big Bottle, Winter, watercolour 5 x 8" cold press, 1997 (No. 1056)
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