Tag: architectural landscape
Sketch of NSCAD buildings in downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia
Added some colour to this piece from a couple of weeks ago.Paper: 3½ × 5½″ Stillman & Birn Alpha Series (150 gsm white softcover sketchbook)
Sketch: Houses and barn in Memramcook
From a photo I took in March this year, as the last of the snow was finally melting. I’ve always liked this cluster of houses by the Trans-Canada Highway between…
The Missaguash River from Fort Lawrence, Nova Scotia
Finished watercolour painting on 10 × 25 cm Arches 300 gsm cold-pressed watercolour paper. 2 colours: Winsor & Newton’s Payne’s Grey and Sepia.Île de la Valière/Tonge’s Island, Cumberland County, Nova…
House in Sackville
Watercolour painting on 3 ½ × 5 ⅜″ Pentalic Aqua Journal (140 lb). Earlier pencil sketch of work in progress.
Quick sketch of the ruins of the Sunny Brae Arena
Quick & dirty watercolour sketch of the ruins of Moncton’s Sunny Brae Arena. This is on unbelievably light-weight paper in a throw-away sketchbook. From a photo I took a couple…
The Vogue Cinema, Sackville
Pen-&-ink sketch of The Vogue Cinema for Sweetest Little Thing 2017.Carbon pen on 3 ½ × 5 ½″ Moleskine sketch album (120 gsm).In a private collection.
Abandoned shop in Memramcook
Pencil under-drawing for a watercolour that never got started. An abandoned shop at the corner of rue Landry & NB Route 106 in the Village of Memramcook, New Brunswick.Pencil sketch…
Edith Cavell school columns
These columns once faced Park Street on the front of the original Edith Cavell School, built around 1920 and which burned in the mid-1980s.Now they’re free-standing, facing Victoria Park on…
Boathouse and Farm House
The Boathouse and the Farm House. From a reference photo I took in 2014 on Great Spruce Head Island in Penobscot Bay, Maine. Getting started; work in progress.Pencil on 9 ¼…
The Boathouse
The Boathouse on Great Spruce Head Island, in Penobscot Bay, Maine. Sketch from a reference photo I took in 2014.Pencil, Lamy Vista fountain pen with grey ink, Copic markers, and…
Lighthouse at Cape Jourimain
Pencil sketch of the recently-moved lighthouse at Cape Jourimain Nature Centre, Cape Jourimain, New Brunswick. It really needs a coat of paint — many shingles have gone black. From a…
Cape Jourimain lighthouse
Light 2H pencil under-drawing of the newly-moved lighthouse at Cape Jourimain, N.B. 9 ¼ × 6 ¼″ Stillman & Birn Alpha (white/150 gsm) sketchbook. From a photo I took in September, 2016. Not sure…
Houses in Waterside
Watercolour sketch of houses in Waterside, New Brunswick, from a photo I took in August. On 9 ¼ × 6 ¼″ Stillman & Birn Alpha (white/150 gsm) hard-bound sketchbook. The Stillman & Birn Alpha…
The Bicycle Specialist, Amherst, Nova Scotia
Drawing of The Bicycle Specialist, Amherst, Nova Scotia. Finished up this sketch with a 2B mechanical pencil. My Mini Cooper Clubman was challenging; cars are hard to get right. 0.9 mm…
Apartment block in Amherst, Nova Scotia
Sketch of a brick apartment building on Crescent Avenue, Amherst, Nova Scotia (from reference photos I took today). 2H pencil, Carbon fountain pen, and Copic markers on 5 ¾ × 8 ¾″ Stillman &…
Woman at Peel métro station, Montréal
Pencil, Lamy Vista fountain pen with black ink, and watercolour in a 5 ¾ × 8 ¾″ Stillman & Birn Gamma sketchbook. From a reference photo I took in March,…
Rue Saint-Denis @ Cherrier, Montréal, Québec
Sketched from reference photos I took on a week-long visit to Montréal in March, 2015. The bright, mustardy yellow insulation exposed between the buildings was very striking, especially in the…
Houses with Kubota tractor
Series of shots of this work in progress; pencil, Carbon fountain pen, watercolour, in 8 ¼ × 3 ½″ Global Art Materials trav•e•logue hand•book. Had to include the Kubota tractor. Some pencil studies in…
Colville House
A watercolour sketch — pencil begun in situ, completed in studio — of Alex Colville’s home in Sackville, New Brunswick, now preserved as part of the Mount Allison University campus…
Waterside houses
This started out unusually — I did the pen-and-ink sketch directly, without any pencil drawing, or even any real plan. Watercolour sketch of houses in Waterside, New Brunswick, from reference…
Sawmill Creek covered bridge, Hopewell
Plein air sketch using pencil, Carbon & Lamy fountain pens (with carbon ink and black ink), and Copic markers in a 9 ¼ × 6 ¼″ Stillman & Birn Alpha…
Home on Folkins Drive, Sackville
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…
Alley in St.-Hubert, Montréal
Pencil sketch from a photo I took in March, 2015. 5 × 8 ¼″ Moleskine sketch album (120 gsm).
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).
Struts Gallery/Lorne Street, Sackville
Stephen Scott is painting from inside the Subaru, above my sketchbook in this photo. Pencil, Carbon fountain pen, and watercolour in 5 ¾ × 8 ¾″ Stillman & Birn Gamma (150 gsm) ivory sketchbook. In…
Canterbury Street, Saint John
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. Blocked-in…
Parking lot behind Struts Gallery
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…
Railway bridge over the Tantramar
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.