Updated 2017-02-08.
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.
Updated 2017-02-06.
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.
Updated 2017-02-08.
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.
Updated 2017-02-05.
Father & son
My friend Steve walking his son home from school in our neighbourhood. Mount Allison University campus in the distance.
Father and son (work in progress)
Pencil sketch in 5 × 8 ¼″ Moleskine sketch album (120 gsm paper).
In a private collection in France.
Updated 2017-02-06.
Long-since gone, this is from a series of photos I took in 1992 or 1993.
Graphite on cheap sketchbook paper, roughly 4.5 × 8″
Updated 2017-02-08.
The Wood Block, Sackville, New Brunswick
Pencil sketch; 5 × 8 ¼″ Moleskine sketch album (120 gsm paper).
![Volvo trucks on Grand Manan — the full, two-page spread. It was the low, evening light and the long shadows that drew me to this. Maybe I’ll paint it. What do you think? Also? This was my first swipe post — and I SUCKED AT IT. Next time. Work in progress #wip. [visit watercolours.ca]
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