After finishing my Ph.D. I spent a number of months in London Ontario acting as a starving artist. Although I did not starve, making art sales was very difficult at first. Working at a gallery at the Garden Market downtown, I would spend hours painting pictures. This work was done in 2004, on the back of another painting that I had folded in half and was about to throw away when I decided to make the most of the paper. The scene is a city on the side of a hill in a harbour, the point of view apparently from a park. Sailboats can be seen on the water front with a twilight backdrop.
The work took 8 hours to complete. I built up the outlines first and then filled in the colour. The sky was a glaze layering of red and green.The yellow windows were added last, they are just white paper with a thin layer of pale yellow, probably lemon yellow or a touch of Winsor yellow. I used to use aureolin yellow, a nice pale colour, but it is toxic so I try to cut down on it. Although the work did not sell at the gallery it did sell recently to a colleague at the hospital, who now resides in the UK.
Midnight on Chocolate Harbour, watercolour 20 x 11", cold press watercolour paper (Creased down the middle), 2004 (No. 3351)
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