Paintings from Ontario over the Years

In 1996, I had access to Mom and Dad's car for summer jobs. On free days, I would drive down to Toronto, or take the metro from North Toronto, and make paintings all day. It was called the Skydome originally, now it has a corporate name but not much else has changed with it. There were elaborate sculptures of fans on the side but I omitted that. If you look carefully at the bottom right there is a line up of people. Just before this one, I did another Skydome painting from the side view.

Skydome Front View, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, May 1996 

This painting was done later due to the granulation in the sky which is from cerulean blue. I was also using the high wires as part of the composition to show just how ugly things were. The CN tower looks a little thin here.

CN Tower with wires, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, May 2001

 

Union station is a cavernous artifact from a past age. And that is just the urinals. In this painting, I showed the clock and time board. The dark areas were done with alizarin crimson (PR83) and viridian hue (PG7). It worked quite well but nowadays I use carbon black (PBk6) with peryelen maroon (PR179) or benzi maroon (PR175).

Union Station Toronto, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, 2008 

Closer to home, this is Macville Public school where Mom used to teach and was Principal towards the end. This painting was a preliminary painting done on location. It was for a larger work that was framed and given to a teacher who retired. For the larger work I combined the colour and technique from this painting with information from a photo.

Macville Public School, watercolour 5.5 x 9" cold press, 2003?