Thinking back on my paintings

With a holiday I did some spring cleaning and got into one of my boxes of paintings. It got me thinking back to my paintings from that era, in this example, its London Ontario early 2000's. I was sitting near the corner of Richmond and Dundas, back then I sat on a small camping chair to make paintings, looking to the east direction. It was an overwhelming scene but I gave it my best try, even getting the green light on the traffic lights, and a complicated sign with the word restaurant on it. Even today I would have trouble with such a scene! 

The other reason was to look at the back of my old paintings, as in, can I still paint on the backs of them? Basically every painting had an unused back, although they were mostly 5 x 7", so I went through and trimmer them down and got them ready for a second life. Before doing so, I pulled the good ones out, the memorable ones, and set those ones aside. So it looks like I'll be doing more 5 x 7" this summer. On my catalogue, grey font means I pulled it and painted on back, while strike-through font means I ripped the painting up and put in our composter. Fun fact, 100% rag watercolour paper composts quite well!