It was intense in more ways than one... intense colours, intense brightness, intense wind, intense cold...intense painting! When I completed this on location, standing at the Atwater footbridge looking west, the entire painting was still moist and shimmering in the sunlight, like a mirror-glaze on a cake. I waited around an extra 5 or 10 minutes to make sure it would dry enough, and with the wooden drying rack, it dried just about right. Every now and then a painting comes together to be more than just a sum of its parts, there is something about the bright colours contrasted against the earthy brown and black of the old factory-turned-condo buildings, the rail bridge that crosses here, and the snowy, frozen canal shimmering in tri-coulour like Neapolitan ice cream. The windchill was so severe here I had to pull up the wool scarf to above my nose and tighten up the parka hood, just peering through a small crack, fighting off the tears and sniffles as my face got blasted with winter cheer. Glad I hung in there and could ride my bike home in one piece to tell the tale.
Intense sunset Lachine canal, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, December 2025
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