Not far from Ottawa is a small suburb called Carp, home of the Diefenbunker a Canadian cold war relic. It is also home to my sister who lives there in a nice house. When they first moved in there was a large garden with an old fire hydrant and some brown eyed susan flowers which I painted here. The background is sparse because it was just a vacant lot with small trees, nowadays the trees are huge and there is a sub division back there. They have since sodded over the garden. 5 x 8" cold press, watercolour, 2001?
My sister lives in a house similar in style to this one, but much bigger. I caught the scene here with the Canadian flag in the front door. Canadian Gothic? 5 x 7" cold press, watercolour, 2001?
This is a shop or something, I was intrigued by the contrast in reds, and the prospect of painting a complicated street lamp overlapping a complicated roof. I can tell this took a long time to achieve. Around this time I was going for a realism style, like I was trying to be a human camera! 5 x 7" cold press, watercolour, 2001?
Driving into Carp I saw this amazing scene it looked like a Monet scene. So I walked out there with my paints and caught it as the sun was going down. There is a real atmosphere in this one, you can feel the end of a hot summer day. 5 x 8" cold press, watercolour, 2001?
Very last chance to paint, the sun would be totally down when I finished this painting, which I remember doing. The stained glass caught my attention, and the neat blue shadow on the wall, tinted in a pale tangerine. The streak of red in the grass gives the sun set feel. The roof was done using cerulean blue and rose madder, they separate a little giving that amazing texture. 5 x 8" cold press, watercolour, 2001?
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