As I paint on the backs of old paintings, its neat to see the old collection from somewhere around the year 2000. This one was probably around 2004 judging by the technique and whatever vague memory I have of the time. I did a BSc followed by PhD, so about 9 years in London Ontario, but somehow still found time to paint. This one must have been spring, as there were no leaves on the trees. The art gallery building is in the foreground, with the top of Middlesex college in the background.
Campus art gallery building UWO, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, 2004?
At one of the fields where we played Ultimate Frisbee, I stayed around after practice and made a painting. As I remember, it was grey and overcast as I painted, then the sun came out and illuminated the tops of these trees. I recall blogging about this one before.
Yellow, orange red trees, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press,
More fancy stuff on campus, they loved the old limestone look, and ornate lamps. I showed this one to friends back int he day and they wanted to buy it. I made an exact copy and sold it to them, however, I now regret not selling more of the originals back then. Actually, I was showing at a gallery but the owner generally only took my surrealism paintings for sale.
Glass globe lamps UWO campus, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press
This fancy building is the art museum downtown London Ontario, it had 6 vaulted sections with some type of stained glass paneling. It must have been a tough painting to do, I needed to have used a larger piece of paper. I was a little tight on cash back then so I painted small, and kept the backs of the paintings free in the event I ran out of money to buy paper. My parents helped me a lot over the early years with cost of living and art supplies.
Downtown art museum, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press
At one of the several Ultimate Frisbee tournaments I attended in Kanata Ottawa at the grass fields, we played a game of cups afterwards. You can guess what was in the cups, and that we were drinking the contents and throwing the Frisbee (disc) between the sticks or something to that effect! The more of these 'Looking back blogs" I write, the more I realize I am writing my memoirs.
Cups Ottawa, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press
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