Ropeleski Bread Delivery Canvas Print

A quiet winter's day in the east end of Montreal, with the daily Ropeleski bread being delivered to the older grocery store. The 1955 blue Chevrolet panel truck was a common visitor on these streets, bringing old European flavour to many homes. The simple rye bread was indeed the staff of life for the buyers, and a tie to the life they left behind.

...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...