Down in Parc Gédéon-De Catalogne (st Henri) near the Lachine canal, there is a long and narrow park with landscaping, including a long ess-shaped garden with hundreds of flowers. At this time, white and yellow daffodils were coming up, along with a few red tulips in the background, and some magenta ground cover flowers in the bottom right. The lawn was done with bright yellow (PY184) and green (PG36), when dry, over-painted with green and yellow hatch marks for texture.
Daffodils st Henri, watercolour 8 x 10" cold press, May 2026 (No. 5383b)
This scene is Viger square, which is built over top of the rte 136 underground highway. There was a noisy seagull cawing at me. Two trees with very different shades of green are in the background. The left tree is mostly done with bismuth yellow (PY184) dabbed with yellow-orange (PY110) or dilute green (PG36). On the right, the tree is dilute perylene green (PBk31) overpainted with a mix of perylene green and regular green. The lawn is bismuth yellow with regular green. It was nice to practice painting green again!
Shades of green noisy gull, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, May 2026 (No. 5161b)
In the same Viger park, I turned and painted this scene of a bench painted with 'Land Back'. It was a great place to stand and paint... good sight lines, and a warm sun falling on the scene. I had almost forgotten what shadows looked like with all the overcast weather we have been having.
Land back bench, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, May 2026 (No. 5164a)
It was also good to see the water flowing down st Lawrence river, its been frozen for ages it seems. This view is looking upstream from Old Port, you see the Concorde bridge which connects Montreal to st Helens Island. After, I would ride across that bridge towards the island.
Concorde bridge spring, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, May 2026 (No. 5164b)
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