Wing's Noodles 116 118 de la Gauchitiere,Chinatown Litvack Canvas Print

A part of Montreal's history, that is slated to be wiped out for a condo,Wing's noodles, 1949, occupies the building first built as a French/English school.After finishing as a PBSGM school in 1899, it had many uses. The building in the centre, was built 175 years ago, maybe longer. The front has seen many years of repairs, as shown by the painting.

...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...