8″X5.5″ Pen & Ink
An interesting day. I must have walked through half a dozen climate zones on my lunchtime walk. It went from cool and overcast to gale-force wind to blazing-hot sunshine to storm-laden clouds and back to sirocco-like hot wind… [...]
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7″X5″ Oil on board I found myself at work very early a couple of times this week so I went for a walk. Dawn looks a lot like dusk (except looking the other way of course) at this time of year. This spot is right at the junction of the Niagara Ri… [...] 8″X6″ Oil on board Looking northeast to the New York shore. The season is about right but I didn’t take this reference shot this year. Right now we have a couple of inches of snow and the temperature is -11C (about 12F). [...] 5″X7″ Acrylic on boardThis time looking South-East, more or less toward Niagara Falls.I based both yesterday’s and today’s pictures on very low resolution photos from my cell phone. I then cropped them even further so it certainly prevents the inclu… [...] 7″X5″ Acrylic on board Smugglers’ Cove Boat Club sits on the west (Canadian) bank of the Niagara River about a mile south of Lake Ontario. I am not sure whether there is history to the name, it certainly seems like an ideal spot for some clandestin… [...] 5.5″X3.5″ Pen & graphitint pencil on paper There is a tiny beach at the bottom of Ball Avenue in NOTL. Hardly anyone ever goes there, even at the height of tourist season when the town is teeming with people. It makes a pleasant spot to eat my … [...] 5.5″X3.5″ Watercolour pencil & pen on paper This is the very corner of where the Niagara River meets the Lake. I am looking northish across Lake Ontario, toward Toronto. I have painted from this little car park at the foot of Turntable Way at least a couple of times before. If I had looked just to my [...] 5.5″X3.5″ Watercolour in paper I used the tiny watercolour Moleskine that I bought in England for this one. I have painted Navy Hall before, a couple of times at least. I did this at lunchtime today, sitting on the ramparts of Fort George, the Niagara River is in [...] 9″X6″ Watercolour & pen on paper Youngstown New York again. This is a view I have painted several times already, see last year here and just the other day here. As well as variations here, and here and no doubt a few more. This is just a short walk from where I work, so it tends to [...] 6″X4″ Watercolour on paper Finally a day to sit outside. I only had a few minutes at lunchtime but I went down to the river and soaked up some sunshine and did this very quick sketch of the [...] |
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