drawings & watercolour paintings
Added some colour washes to this little piece of a home in Botsford, NB, near Little Shemogue, from a photo I took in early March, 2019. Kitchen table, pre-brunch doodle — with a rough, pencil under-drawing — of a home in Botsford, NB, near Little Shemogue, from a photo I took in early March, 2019 … Read more
Sketch done from “life” at the Redpath Museum at McGill University in Montréal, Québec, in April, 2018, of their Gorgosaurus libratus skeleton. Pencil sketch, ink drawing in 9¼ × 6¼″ Stillman and Birn Alpha Series (150 gsm white hardcover sketchbook). Gorgosaurus page at The Redpath Museum website.
Île de la Valière/Tonge’s Island, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, in the foreground; the Missaguash River separating New Brunswick from Nova Scotia and Westmorland County, NB, in the middle ground, with the Bay of Fundy, more Westmorland Co., and Albert County, NB, in the distance. See Tantramar Heritage Trust’s page on Tonge’s Island.
Watercolour painting on 3 ½ × 5 ⅜″ Pentalic Aqua Journal (140 lb). Earlier pencil sketch of work in progress. Related post: House in Sackville (original sketch)
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 of weeks ago. John Philip Sousa played here a couple of times. Historic Places page on the history of the Sunny Brae Rink.
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.