Looking back Bolton, London Ontario pylons etc

As I paint on the backs of old painting, I selected a few to scan and show here on the blog since I was not blogging back then. You see my signature on the bottom left, its the scrawl, literally my signature. The painting goes for a realism approach, I like the blue shadow and how the backboard looks against the cloudy sky. Nowadays I have orange paint, back then I was mixing yellow and red. 

Basketball net Bolton, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, 200x

Near my old residence building, Saugeen Maitland, there was a utility shed. Probably painted on one of my visits back, like mid 2005, this painting has a warm, quiet feel to it. I was still putting cerulean blue in the shadows, but not too much. 

Saugeen shed, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, 2005?

Never sure what this house was all about, it was in the middle of campus near the hospital parking lots. I always imagined a professor lived there or something. Its a carefully done painting, one that would have taken me quite a bit of time on location. I sat in a small camping chair back then when I painted. In fact, I sat in a small camping chair to paint all the way until 2020 when I started using my bike and standing. 

Campus house, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, 200x

My interest in pylons as a motif goes back, way back! This one was done outside of the hospital, probably around the same time as the previous painting, maybe on the same trip. Now I have an better way of making pylon orange, you see here the orange is a little bit earthy. If I could go back in time, and tell myself to buy some orange paint! 

Pylons hospital, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, 2005?

Another favorite motif, construction vehicle with orange warning sign. I got a lot of detail into this one. Probably done in between classes. 

Forklift campus, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, 200x

An interesting view of plane trails in the sky illuminated by sunset. In the foreground, one of the student residences with lights on, and a car in the parking lot. Its a hard time of day to paint, this is a pretty good effort. I've gotten much better at painting post-sunset and night scenes. 

Plane trails sunset, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, 200x

I am pretty sure this is the last painting I made in London Ontario before moving (back) to Montreal, which puts it at winter of 2004, around April perhaps. It was a little sad to leave but I was quite excited to start a new journey in Montreal, and what a journey its been! 

Campus snow vista, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, 2004?

I didn't know about salt in the water back then, so this winter painting ended up getting frozen solid. It shows the new (at the time) arts building and some kind of pillar in the background.  

Arts building frozen, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, 200x