Tag: Sackville
Quick watercolour landscape
30-minute watercolour sketch with a thumbnail colour study below it.This is a piece depicting the NB Trail in Middle Sackville, New Brunswick, from a photo I took in the summer…
Van and apartments — digital painting
Digital painting of van and apartments in Sackville, New Brunswick.[/caption]Digital painting of an apartment building in my neighbourhood at night, from a reference photo I took this summer. Somehow a…
House in Sackville
Watercolour painting on 3 ½ × 5 ⅜″ Pentalic Aqua Journal (140 lb). Earlier pencil sketch of work in progress.
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.
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…
Stephen Scott sketching
Sketch of Fredericton, New Brunswick, artist Stephen Scott painting on the Tantramar Marsh (Anderson Marsh Road). He’s working on a small oil sketch on linen from the back of his…
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…
Ultramarine watercolour swatches
Winsor & Newton’s French Ultramarine (PB29) next to a swatch of Daniel Smith’s Ultramarine (PB29). The sketch of the parking lot behind Struts Gallery has had a wash of 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…
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…
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.
Abandoned house between Mount Uniake & Hall’s Hill
This little watercolour — on Arches 140-lb. cold pressed paper, about 4 × 3″ — was made for The Sweetest Little Thing, 2015. The house itself is unoccupied and in considerably worse…
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…
Alex Colville’s attic studio: 360° photo
This is a 360° photograph I shot in 2010 in Alex Colville’s empty attic studio in his former home in Sackville, New Brunswick. He painted many of his most famous…
Prof. George Nichols
Professor Nichols was very pleasant, but I’d clearly heard enough about Sigmund Freud that morning.