Next to Lachine there is a marina, protected from the river by a long point with a park on it. I paint there often, usually in spring and summer because its hard to get there in the winter. This one is looking upstream from the end of the park, with some new leaves on an overhanging tree.
Upstream view Spring, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, May 2026
Looking downstream towards the Mercier bridge, you see one of the many park benches in the foreground. It was a cool and sunny afternoon, quite pleasant. I used dilute indo blue (PB60) for the water, and a mix of indo blue with burnt yellow ochre (PR102) for the park bench, with carbon black (PBk6) for the iron parts.
Bench Mercier bridge, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, May 2026
Lucky they had this sign, because two people tried to walk this way as I painted. Its a long narrow spit of land that comes off the point park, but the current on both sides is strong and dangerous. Plenty of red-winged blackbirds were cawing and flying around, they love to congregate along the shore. The fresh air here was, well, refreshing... it smelled of river water and fresh earth, without the exhaust fumes from the city. The view here goes on for miles, in the distance, its the south shore.
No walking upstream view, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, May 2026
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