The Missaguash River from Fort Lawrence, Nova Scotia
Finished watercolour painting on 10 × 25 cm Arches 300 gsm cold-pressed watercolour paper. 2 colours: Winsor & Newton’s Payne’s Grey and Sepia.
Île de la Valière/Tonge’s Island, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, in the foreground; the Missaguash River separating New Brunswick from Nova Scotia and Westmorland County, NB, in the middle ground, with the Bay of Fundy, more Westmorland Co., and Albert County, NB, in the distance.
The building — which initially drew me to this scene — is Acadia University’s Beaubassin Research Station.
Tantramar Heritage Trust’s also has a page on Tonge’s Island.
Île de la Valière/Tonge’s Island, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, in the foreground; the Missaguash River separating New Brunswick from Nova Scotia and Westmorland County, NB, in the middle ground, with the Bay of Fundy, more Westmorland Co., and Albert County, NB, in the distance.
The building — which initially drew me to this scene — is Acadia University’s Beaubassin Research Station.
Tantramar Heritage Trust’s also has a page on Tonge’s Island.
Composition study; 9 ¼ × 6 ¼″ Stillman & Birn Alpha sketchbook.
Watercolour tonal study in a 3 ½ × 5 ½″ 200 gsm Moleskine watercolour sketchbook.
Initial pencil sketch on 10 × 25 cm Arches 300 gsm cold-pressed watercolour paper.
First washes for sky & distant water/landscape.
Added glazes for distant hills, mid-ground trees, hills, house, railway bridge, and railway roadbed.