Small portrait study: coffee drinker
Small sketch of man smiling Paper: 5½ × 8″ Strathmore Art Journal (400 series toned tan sketch paper 118 gsm softcover sketchbook).Didn’t capture his likeness fully — the eyes aren’t…
Tag: pencil
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…
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…
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…
Camarasaurus skull
A quick post for FossilFriday during Dinovember. From a reference photo I took at the Tyrrell in July, 2016.
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…
Bus driver checks his phone
Bus driver checks his phone in the shade while waiting on Park Street, Sackville, New Brunswick, next to the Mount Allison University football field. From a photo I took in…
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…
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…
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…
Father & son walking
My friend Steve walking his son home from school in our neighbourhood. Mount Allison University campus in the distance. Pencil sketch in 5 × 8 ¼″ Moleskine sketch album (120 gsm paper). In a…
Memramcook church
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″
Home in Port Elgin
This pencil sketch is of an abandoned house next to the Village Office in Port Elgin, New Brunswick. There are so many beautiful houses like this around, but they won’t…
First-year drawings, from 1991–’92
Mainly drawn on throw-away newsprint, about 18x24", they're just simple exercises, having no merit as art. In keeping with that, these reproductions were hastily shot on an iPhone with available…