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…
Tag: work-in-progress
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…