Snowdon Tavern and Levine Bros Bakery Decarie Canvas Print

Decarie in Snowdon was a great shopping district in Montreal. The Snowdon Tavern was a local favourite, for adults and students, for lunch. Levine's had the best sweet rolls, just the place to load up on a Sunday, before heading up North on route 11, a 60 mile trip that sometimes took 3 hours in summer.

...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...