I ordered a new paint set from Rosa Gallery. This is their “Botanicals” set with a nice assortment of reds and blues. I broke it in sketching our local cinema which has gone through several owners in the 20 years we have been in the neighbourhood. It has a nice community feel and is a great place to see a film on the big screen without all the hype of the big cineplexes.
Now that the new North Market is complete and open we no longer have to explain why the North Market is south of the main market. The old building it replaces was not beautiful but it was a community hub. I hope the new building will serve the same needs.
Continuously in operation since 1923. Adelaide and Peter Streets in Toronto.
My sister-in-law has a trailer summer place on the Grand River. Family kiddies love riding bikes around the park, fishing and the little red club car is a big hit.
There’s a turnaround and transfer point at Bathurst and Queens Quay on Toronto’s waterfront. I sometimes used to transfer to a Bathurst car here when I worked in the King/Bathurst area about 2002-04. But these are new streetcars that take up most of a city block. I first rode these articulated streetcars in 2017-18 I think. I was working for Tapestry Opera in the Distillery District and I’d catch the streetcar on Cherry Street. It was a darn cold place to wait. I wasn’t sure about the new cars. They were easier to get on but they moved in such a herky jerky fashion, people were always losing their footing at first until both drivers and passengers adjusted.
Nestled between RMC and the Royal Ontario Museum on Bloor is the entrance to the nicest little footpath through a part of U of T’s downtown campus
North of St. James Cathedral there is a row of Victorian offices that run up to Adelaide and around the corner. Built in the same brick as the church, the Court House a block away and St. Lawrence Hall, the original City Hall, these buildings house a number or organization including the Anglican Church of Canada, who used to take up the full structure, I believe. Theres a new church Hall for the Cathedral in blue glass between the old offices and St. James Park.
I bought myself a sketchbook with a wide format. I’d been admiring other people’s ability to create some wide street scenes. I really had fun with this. I think I’ll use this format a lot in future.
This house in Toronto’s Annex was purchased by St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto in 1920 and still serves as student housing. I wanted to sketch it because of it’s Hogwarts feeling and the unique brick buttresses under the upper storey tower room. These days it is connected to two additional houses on the block that collectively house about 70 students in double and single rooms. The Annex was Toronto’s first subdivision and is now a mixed neighbourhood of mansions, frat houses, rooming houses and houses converted into multi-unit dwellings.
I saw this house in a real estate listing for about 7 M. It is currently being used as offices for an advertising agency. I think the sunrise light bathing the bricks and stone in yellow and orange really appealed to me.