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 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.
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.
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.
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″
The Wood Block, Sackville, New Brunswick
Pencil sketch; 5 × 8 ¼″ Moleskine sketch album (120 gsm paper).
![Tiny study of a local homestead I’ve painted before. I like how these barns huddle together and I love the lines of this house. This one’s 3¼ inches wide (work in progress #wip). [visit watercolours.ca]
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