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7″X5″ WC pencil on paper Usually by the time it gets this cold the canal has been drained, but the boats are still trying to get through the Seaway before it closes. The water is gelid, so cold that it barely ripples with the breeze. Tonight we are supposed to get a major storm. [...] 7″X5″ Watercolour & pencil on paper These gulls sit here every day, winter and summer, I am not sure what they are waiting for. [...] 7″X5″ Acrylic on paper I got caught at the bridge this morning, so I took some pictures. I am always attracted by these dark autumn skies, especially when the middle-ground is lit up by the early sun like this. I am still struggling with the acrylics but they do have some distinct advantages. [...] 10″X3.5″ Pencil on paper The giant lakers moving up and down the canal are an unending source of fascination for me. Here is one just coming out of the lock. Because the land is so flat around here, many of the landscape views would work better as panoramas, I think. I am going to [...] 5″X7″ Pencil on paper I liked this image of a father and son enjoying a few minutes down by the canal. Bright sun, but still a little chilly. [...] 7″X5″ Water-soluble Pencil on paper It is always a bitter-sweet moment when the Welland Canal (part of the St. Lawrence Seaway) opens to marine traffic at the beginning of the year. On the one hand it is a true sign of Spring and the boats really are magnificent. On the other hand it means [...] 7″X5″ Graphitint and Aquarelle on paper I have tried to remain pretty seasonal with these paintings, at least since about my tenth post. If I am not actually painting from life or from a photo taken within the week, I have tried to use references that were taken at the same time of year. [...] 5″X7″ Graphitint on paper I don’t know what this barrel-like thing is. It sits in the middle of the canal just south of the Lakeshore bridge, by Port Weller Dry Docks. 5″X7″ Graphitint on paper The canal is a constant source of inspiration. Nobody else seems to be painting it. The locks, the lakers, the birds, the bridges are all endlessly fascinating to me. [...] |
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