The other day I painted a scene of the city workers preparing the
downtown ice rink, because I was wearing a neon green bib people thought I worked for them and asked me when the rink would be open! It got me thinking to try this scene again, at the end of the
Montreal night colours blog you see an attempt from last year during a cold snap. This year, they doubled the size of the rink due to popular demand, it is located just south east of the spectacles park, along st Catherine. The lights were rotating between magenta and cyan, with shades of violet in between. Getting into the painting and the water started to freeze, but I was prepared with salt water and switched over to finish the painting. Another cool (freezing!) painting of a skating rink was
skating rink in cyan.
Night skating downtown in magenta, watercolour 8 x 10" cold press, November 2025
Up and to the right, I saw a green glow from the Complexe Desjardins, it was like, who needs the Northern Lights when you have this to look at? It was a technical painting, done with salt water, the trick was in the timing of the sections so as to avoid wet-in-wet effects. It was quite fun painting a green sky like this, it reminds me of the
Finland painting from my World Inspired Landscapes series.
Green aura skyline, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, November 2025
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