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).
Moving day
Struts Gallery/Lorne Street, Sackville
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
Canterbury Street, Saint John
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
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.
Railway bridge over the Tantramar
Railway bridge over the CNR main line, Sackville, New Brunswick.
Watercolour on 5 × 7″ Langton watercolour pad of the CNR bridge over the Tantramar River on the edge of Sackville. Made for Sweetest Little Thing 2016.
Private collection.
Abandoned house between Mount Uniake & Hall’s Hill
Watercolour of abandoned house between Mount Uniake & Hall’s Hill, New Brunswick, not far from where Jolicure Road joins highway 16.
This little watercolour — on Arches 140-lb. cold pressed paper, about 4 × 3″ — was made for The Sweetest Little Thing, 2015.
Watercolour in progress
The house itself is unoccupied and in considerably worse shape than depicted.
In a private collection.