55 of 904

|

St. Laurent has one of Montreal's Hot Dog restaurants, on Decarie away from the strip.A hot dog is a hot dog, right. Some people say no, Decarie is special.Steamed with cabbage, onions and perhaps hot paprika, with the bags for fries in the window, already to go!. The painting was auctioned, Feb.11,2023 off to raise money for Teresa Dellar Palliative Care Hospital in Kirkland. The value was $600; it raised an astonishing $1010.00 for patient care.

...I enjoy painting in what I call ,"Pseudo naive cartoon Abstractism", featuring bright colours in very simplistic forms. A happy feeling exudes from my works as they are all based on features from the present and past. Usually a car or bicycle shows up somewhere in the picture. I work only in acrylics with black pencil art markers. I took a 1 year fine arts university course back in 1964, and then dropped it completely until 10 years ago. My works have gone in 2 directions: the landmark paintings, and the everyday situations featuring "little people". People tell me they can "connect" with my historical view of the passing scene. Signs and commercial store fronts are a key to my paintings.Take a close look at the signs...often a little...