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Quick watercolour landscape

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This is a piece depicting the NB Trail in Middle Sackville, New Brunswick, from a photo I took in the summer of 2017. Unfinished, of course, because one of the goals was to work quickly. One of the things I like about this kind of landscape is that the clouds dominate, so issues of faithfulness… Read more »

Small portrait study: coffee drinker

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Didn’t capture his likeness fully — the eyes aren’t quite right and it looks like he has a beard (he doesn’t) — but I’m not unhappy with it.

Van and apartments — digital painting

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Digital painting of van and apartments

Updated 2020-06-13. Digital painting of an apartment building in my neighbourhood at night, from a reference photo I took this summer. Somehow a dark scene like this makes more sense using digital media than watercolour on paper. Learned a lot about Procreate on this; I have a lot left to learn. Great software. iPad Pro… Read more »

Sports field with net; Port Elgin Regional School

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Updated 2019-08-08. Loosest of pencil sketches underneath watercolour, a splash of white gouache, and the tiniest amount of Prismacolor watercolour pencils. From a photo I took in March, 2019. I still don’t understand trees; working on it. To be clear, learning is happening. This one also looks better in person than the photo suggests (no,… Read more »

Watercolour sketch of a home near Botsford, New Brunswick

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Watercolour sketch of a home near Botsford, New Brunswick, Canada

Updated 2019-08-12. Added some colour washes to this little piece of a home in Botsford, NB, near Little Shemogue, from a photo I took in early March, 2019. Kitchen table, pre-brunch doodle — with a rough, pencil under-drawing — of a home in Botsford, NB, near Little Shemogue, from a photo I took in early… Read more »

Sketch: Houses and barn in Memramcook

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Updated 2019-10-14. From a photo I took in March this year, as the last of the snow was finally melting. I’ve always liked this cluster of houses by the Trans-Canada Highway between Sackville and Moncton. Study on toned paper. Mostly markers with some ink & gel pen (detail, work in progress). Paper: 7¾ × 9¾″ Strathmore Art Journal… Read more »