Old Montreal

Yesterday I spent my time wandering Montreal. I visited many shops in Old Montreal. I had some conversations with people in art galleries. I looked at some art work. I visited some shops which sell Inuit art. This was how I spent my morning. I woke up early and began walking south to the old port.

It was about a quarter to 10. I went into a design shop. There was a man sitting there at a desk. I started to talk to him because he noticed me admiring these illustrations of celestial events. He was very enthusiastic about these pictures. He worked in the store and was a man 8 years younger than me. He was an attractive fellow who was quite tall. He talked for quite some time. I found out that he is also a visual artist.

He showed me his art work on the computer. He manually alters photographs with drawing techniques. His art work is from photographs of a freeway structure built during Expo 67. These pictures he had drawn clouds into and darkened different shadows with graphite and other materials.

After I left this store I browsed another one next door. I had been waiting for this store to open because it had many plants. I saw many terraniums with cactuses which I enjoyed. I longed to have one, but know that this is not the time to make that kind of purchase.

I left the store and browsed old Montreal. I visited many shops. There were several art galleries that I visited. I chatted with a girl. She liked my art work, but gave me a few suggetions of ways I could improve it. She works in a gallery which is owned by a Quebec painter. He does all of his art work on black canvases.

I then went to 2 seperate galleries exhibiting Inuit art. I chatted for a long time with a young woman about the work. The second shop wasn`t quite as friendly. They had polar bears rugs. There were many animal rugs with the head attached. There were fur coats and life sized stuffed polar bears. I looked at them for a while before making my way outside.