Folkins Drive sketch
Pencil & ink sketch of a homestead on Folkins Drive, on the Tantramar marsh in Sackville, New Brunswick. This is from a reference photo taken in 2009 or 2010. None of these buildings remain. Part of my regular running route.
2H Staedler pencil & Pigma Micron pen; 5 × 8 ¼″ Moleskine sketch album (120 gsm paper).
Sketch of an alley in St.-Hubert, Montréal
Pencil sketch from a photo I took in March, 2015. 5 × 8 ¼″ Moleskine sketch album (120 gsm).
Sketch: moving day
Echo patiently waits outside Stephen Scott’s garage on moving day. From a reference photo from November, 2015.
Pencil sketch in a 5 × 8 ¼″ Moleskine sketch album (120 gsm).
Plein air sketch of Struts Gallery/Lorne Street, Sackville, New Brunswick
Stephen Scott is painting from inside the Subaru, above my sketchbook in this photo.
The plein air pencil sketch (from the relative comfort of a Mini Cooper that wasn’t running in February.)
Inking the sketch of Struts Gallery/Lorne Street, Sackville
Pencil, Carbon fountain pen, and watercolour in 5 ¾ × 8 ¾″ Stillman & Birn Gamma (150 gsm) ivory sketchbook.
Watercolour painting of Struts Gallery/Lorne Street, Sackville, New Brunswick
Watercolour: Canterbury St., Saint John, New Brunswick
From a series of reference photos I took in 2015. Pencil, Carbon fountain pen, Pigma Micron brush pen, and watercolour in 5 ¾ × 8 ¾″ Stillman & Birn Gamma (150 gsm) ivory paper.
Early stage pencil and ink drawing
Earliest stage pencil sketch
Blocked-in in pencil.
Parking lot behind Struts Gallery, Sackville
I roughed this sketch in with pencil, then moved to a Carbon fountain pen, and a Pigma Micron brush pen. 5 ¾ × 8 ¾″ Stillman & Birn Gamma (150 gsm ivory paper) Cars are challenging.
Early ink work on the pencil sketch
I used this sketch as a guinea-pig for some pigment-testing later.
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