Sunny day noon, tracks and Coffee park

Down where the Maisonneuve bike path turns upwards towards Coffee Park, there are good views of train tracks as seen behind a fence full of vines. I painted red highlights first, then filled in the rest of the scene, paying attention to the train track perspective. In summer, the fence and old telephone pole are covered in vines, which are hibernating at this time. Officially spring started but its still cold here. 

Tracks behind vines, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, March 2026 

Here is a scene of a building across the way, which is probably Snowdon Bakery, with a service man stannding on the roof working on the ventilation system. I accidentally dropped a bead of wate, which looks exactly like a sun highlight reflecting off the iron train tracks, which is neat. As usual, I changed the graffiti since I prefer not to copy exact names that were written. 

Man on roof, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, March 2026 

Coffee Park is surrounded by condos and a large apartment block up on Sherbrooke west. The park is in the foreground, with a mix of melting snow and last year's grass. I pushed up value contrast on the background elements to convey a sense of strong sunlight. This reminds me of scenes I would paint in London Ontario, that is going back over 30 years! In fact, the first location paintings I did were in 1995, Bolton and London Ontario. 

Coffee Park thaw, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, March 2026