Danskys and DeliSnowdon Imagination Canvas Print

Two businesses from Montreal are in this painting. The Deli Snowdon has been serving great food for decades in the Montreal Snowdon area. The Harvard Stationery store was in Notre Dame de Grace, run by the Dansky family. The Pom Bakery truck, although from the early 1930's,was still seen on the street during this time, mid 1950's.An old Steinberg bag sneaks in to the picture.

...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...