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This painting was done under strange circumstances, and under a timeline. It was done for the Battle of the Bands at Maimonides Geriatric Hospital.The painting was done to raise funds by way of an auction. The Battle of the Bands were various Montreal rock and roll bands competing for bragging rights, while raising money for the hospital. The band members are all non-professionals who all love playing their music of their youth. Steve, with red hair, who passed away years ago, is shown sitting on top of the water hydrant, watching the world go by.

...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...