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Summer Flowers 3

8″X6″ Acrylic on board

The garden isn’t at its best at this time of year but I managed to find this bunch of assorted daisies, phlox and mallow. There is also a kind of white berry which I remember from my childhood, but can’t for the life of me nam… [...]

Sketches

Pencil & Watercolour in Moleskine

I just got a new scanner so I have been looking for things to test it with. I found this in my sketchbook from a couple of weeks ago. The building is the Shaw Festival Theatre.

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Geraniums on the Patio

7″X5″ Acrylic on board

It has been a busy few weeks, with a daughter getting married and two boys off to first year university. I haven’t been very productive.

I have always been very fond of geraniums, especially in pots. I keep them in the b… [...]

Cuckoo in the nest

7″X5″ Oil on board

This year I built a small raised bed by the back door. I filled it with compost, last years leaves, two bags of manure and some peat moss. I planned on a nice orderly vegetable bed with some spinach and some onions, perhaps one o… [...]

People

Sketches in Moleskine

I spent a lot of time watching the passers-by in Mile-End when I stayed in Montreal. I tried to sketch the people from memory because they moved around too much to get any kind of likeness, I tried to just capture s… [...]

Annual Peach Challenge

7″X5″ Oil on board

Every year I seem to need to torture myself by trying to paint peaches. Maybe if I painted them every day for a week or two, like Julian Merrow-Smith, I would eventually get it right. As it is, I fuss and worry at it for an hour… [...]

Cheskies

Various sizes in Moleskine

I am still not getting any painting done so, in the interests of keeping this blog alive, I am posting some sketches I did last week in Montreal. 

My daughter lives in the “Mile End” region of Montreal, in one of … [...]

Daisies

5.5″X3.5″ Pen & wash in moleskine

Still not very productive, maybe it is the weather but I can’t seem to settle to anything. I have been doing some sketching and have just gotten around to scanning some of it, so I may post some over the next… [...]

Morning House

5.5″X8″ WC pencil, pen & wash on paper

Happy July fourth to my American friends!
This is the house just kitty-corner from my house. I used two kinds of pen, a brush pen with permanent ink, and a fountain pen with water soluble ink. I am jus… [...]

Tomatoes

8″X6″ Oil on board

Another glorious day. I sat out on the porch again but this time attempted a still life. I used to do a lot of these food paintings but they have lost their flavour for me :-) .

We don’t have any local tomatoes yet, these are th… [...]