Yeah, now you know I am back in Montreal, here is a painting of Raffi Auto shop on Harley street in the Westhaven neighborhood done at lunch hour today. It was an enormously difficult painting to complete because I completely lost my cold acclimatization while in Brazil, not to mention came down with a lingering head-cold. The other adjustment was I had to use salt water, and as usual, the blobs of paint were frozen hard as a rock on the palette. Brazil in contrast, I used fresh water, and the paints were goopy and tacky due to the heat. Somehow, I held on and got the entire Raffi painting done on location as you can see, including my initials in place of their sign. Its set to warm up to a balmy zero ℃ after the weekend, although we still wont be wearing the new flip-flops quite yet!
Mounds of snow Raffi Auto, 6 x 7.5" watercolour February 2026
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