Across the street from the British Musem, London

From a photo I took through the gates when leaving the British Museum. I love this old building.

Cafe Capuccino

On the main drag, 2nd Ave, in Fernie, BC
From my photo.

Peace

Coffee Time

At Terra Breads on 5th Ave in Vancouver.

Happy Holidays

Fun to make tags and cards at Christmas.

Santa Maria degli Angeli

From my photo , near Assissi, Italy.

Love drawing this orchid

Fun to draw.

Carnegie Library

At Main & Hastings Streets in Vancouver BC. A Scot, Andrew Carnegie made a fortune in steel in the USA and funded the building of 2509 libraries in the US, England, Canada and other countries.

Wesy Van Library

Guess nobody was looking at anything funny.

New Port Mann Bridge construction equipment.

My Favourites

In my opinion these are great.

New Port Mann Bridge Construction

5 lanes each way, 2.2 km over the Fraser River, these towers will rise to support a "cable Stayed" bridge.

Faces

Used ink that is not waterproof on this one.

Faces in Tim Hortons

Drew these quite quickly in Tim Hortons, which is a great Canadian coffee chain, coast to coast.

Wedding Orchid

We recently attended a wedding where the oldest person at the table got to take home the centre piece. Guess what?

Coffee Shop Face

Lots of coffee shop drawings in this cold wet weather.

Watercolour Pear

A small, 2 1/2" X 4", thank you card I made for my wife to use

My art on a cheese label

A drawing I did in August 2009 was used by Dovre Food Import & Export Ltd., of Vancouver BC. Really good cheese too!

Florence, Italy 2006

From a photo I took outside the Uffizi gallery in the late afternoon.

Back to basics

Cold and wet outside so I started looking at drawing books. Colour as value, line weights, 2-5 values, foreground midground background, overlap, perspective, etc, etc,etc. If I could only remember to use at least some while drawing. So I made this little setup to draw. Nice and warm inside, tea pot ready, music on, joy.

Old Vancouver house

Trying a line drawing after seeing James Hobbs drawings again. http://www.james-hobbs.co.uk/index.html

Incendio Pizza

At the corner of Alexander and Columbia Streets in Vancouver BC

Granville Island marina

Holy Rosary Cathedral, Vancouver

Looking at the front, straight on.

Art Stuff

This is what I am using these days when I go drawing. Any inexpensive, on sale 140lb watercolor paper, 9 X12" or I tear up sheets to 7.5 X 11", a plastic clip board with 3 or 4 sheets of paper is light, a Lamy Safari fountain pen, medium nib, Noodlers Polar Black waterproof ink, a small palette I filled with Da Vinci and some Daniel Smith watercolor paint, a Holbein waterbrush. Usually I do the color at home with the other three brushes. I love the big one. I carry it all in a shoulder bag.

Sundance II

Sat on the wharf at the fish dock adjacent to Granville Island in downtown Vancouver BC and drew this fishing boat. I drew about half of the mindboggling array of lines, wires, rigging, whatever, that I could see.

Agro Cafe, Railspur Alley, Granville Island

On Granville Island in downtown Vancouver BC.

Alibi Room

A great modern tavern at 187 Alexander St at Main St, Vancouver. My daughter had a wedding reception here.

Tymac launch, Vancouver harbour.

From the park at the foot of Main street.

Glory Foods

Glory Foods on Carrall at Water Street in Vancouver. Same building as the Glory Hotel. Glorious.

Art Focus Show Poster

My drawing of the Sinclair Center clock tower in Vancouver is on the poster for the fall show of the art group I belong to.

Port Mann Bridge

I enjoy going down to the river and drawing.

West Van street scene

Near Marine Drive and 19th in West Vancouver BC

Mainland & Davie, Vancouver BC

Corner of Mainland & Davie Streets in downtown Vancouver BC

My daughter got married last Saturday

Nicki and Erik. Outdoors on a glorious, sunny October day at a Lodge in the beautiful British Columbia rainforest. Perfect.

Port Mann bridge

Lots of equipment in the river to build the new bridge.

Moved too soon

Did not get to finish this one.

New West

Street lighting on Columbia street in downtown New Westminster BC

Why I Love Watercolor

It can have a mind of it's own but is wonderful stuff.

Holy Rosary Cathedral, Vancouver

Drew this near the corner of Dunsmuir and Richards in downtown Vancouver, from this angle both spires seem close together.

Doodlin

At Bosa Foods

In the library

Sam, you made the lamp too big.

Monotype

I made this watercolor monotype a couple of years ago before the urban sketching bug got me, lots of joy in doing these.

Change of pace

Drawing fun with a uni-ball fine rollerball pen, Faber-Castell Pitt artist pen big brush and a Sakura Permopaque pigment marker