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).
![Sometimes you draw a cow. This one sat patiently while I took its photo. The others ignored me. Donald Harper lane in Middle Sackville (work in progress #wip) [visit watercolours.ca].
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