1547 Cafe Gitana

 

1525 Deep Freeze

 

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Winter morning. 

1510 Kate and william

 

Looking down Crescent Street from Sherbrooke.

1428 Bernard

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1301 China Town Night, 8x10, egg tempera

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1291 Laurier Avenue, Montreal, 8x10, egg tempera

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 Laurier Avenue is such a charming street. 

1279 After the Snow Storm, Montreal Street Scene, 8x10, egg tempera

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 One last blast before spring time. I love winter. So cozy and charming and very quiet in the streets. 

1278 Du Parc, Mile End, Beautiful Winter Day, 8x10, egg tempera

 Can't you just feel that spring is right around the corner?

1277 Crescent Street, 8x10 egg tempera

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1274 Montreal Street Scene, Mile End, 8x10, egg tempera

 A nice winter day.

1272 Chinatown Dusk, 8x10 gg tempera

 

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I love Chinatown.

1268 The Jacques-Cartier Bridge, 8x10, egg tempera

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 It takes a very limited pallet to paint the Jacques Cartier on a short winter day.

1168 Rue Duluth Ouest, 8x10, egg tempera

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1167 Berri-UQAM, egg tempera, 8x10

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The Archambault is a large store that sells musical instruments. 

1166 Crescent Street, 8x10, egg tempera

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1163 The Ritz, Montreal New Year Day, 8x10, egg tempera

sold Toronto

New Years morning on Sherbrooke in front of the Ritz. On baltic birch sealed and gessoed by me. I ground my own pigments in organic free range egg yolks (only happy hens eggs for my work). Dozens of layers of egg tempera over india ink underpainting.  One of my favourites.

A Warm Winter Day, Le Plateau Mont Royal, 8x10 oil on board

This is a redo of a painting I did a while back.There were just some things I didn't like about that painting. I had struggled with it and had done several compositional changes and eventually they started showing through the sky. Which was a titanium zinc mixture mostly.
Zinc is highly transparent white but most of the paint manufactures add it to titanium.  The manufacturers  say zinc makes the paint warmer and more like lead white. So they add zinc to titanium for the buyer's own good. (I suspect zinc is cheaper than titanium...at least you need to use twice as much for the same coverage.) Plus zinc is not archival in oil paint and will eventually cause the oil painting to fail.
So I bought some lead white from Kama Pigments.  Kama is a Montreal paint manufacturer that makes artist quality oil paint in small batches. Very nice! And a great place to buy pure pigments and archival mediums and supplies.
Sorry, I wanted to add the before painting but couldn't find it.

1154 Le Plateau Best Transport, egg tempera, 8x10

When I was in school nobody rode a bike in the winter. The brakes just don't work properly. Now it's a common mode of winter transport. It really is the fastest.

1149 Greens Superette, McGill Student Ghetto, 8x10 egg tempera

sold-Canmore AB

1141 Le Plateau Mont Royal, 8x10, oil on board

sold-Ottawa

This in one of my favourite views.  So charming.

I did this painting in oil on baltic birch 1/8th inch plywood. (Sealed and gessoed by me this summer on my back lawn under the supervision of Teena my tabby.) In case you're curious, here's the palette I used for this painting: Raw sienna, burnt sienna, raw umber, naples yellow, indian yellow, ultramarine, cerulean blue, cadmium red light, cadmium yellow light, pthalo green, flake white, and mars black.
For such an earthy grey painting it sure took a lot of colours. Most of the non earthtone colours were for the really saturated accents like the school signs (Pthalo green and cad yellow).  Okay I used black. (I'm allowed to because it's my painting and I hate rules).  Most of the "blacks" are done with a mixture of ultramarine blue and raw umber....but I couldn't resist getting the mars black out for the final touches...mostly defining some of the foreground shapes. I chose mars black over other blacks such as ivory because mars black drys faster. Same reason I chose lead white over titanium.