33 on 33: Day Nineteen

People seem to think you can't be called the Cap'm
Unless you drive a boat
Well, I don't
I don't
–TMBG, "The Cap'm"

Today was my third day in Wellington for 33 on 33, and I had been thinking about painting the building below for at least a week, now:

Perhaps another time, Dave.

Although it's a very striking building, especially in the morning light, I decided to explore Wellington a bit further to see what I could see.

Quaking Heritage.

The Wellington Heritage Museum was one of the two buildings on Main Street in the heart of town that I didn't get to photograph yesterday because my camera's batteries died.

Built in 1885 as a Quaker Meeting House, it's now a museum featuring elements of local history, particularly the canning industry that was so prolific in Prince Edward County (between 1882 and 1996 there were over 75 different canning factories in operation). Here's an excellent set of photos by Will S. (featuring the Doug Crawford Canning Collection) on Flickr.

Smoke's place?

This was the other building I missed shooting yesterday. I mentioned Daniel Reynolds in my post for Day 17, and this was his home, now known as Manor House, a stone house built around 1799, and is the oldest of its kind in Wellington.

Good morning!

Having posted a bunch of foggy-but-still-attractive photos yesterday, I wanted to show off some of Wellington's charm in the lovely morning sunlight. The above photo is looking east, the opposite shot of this one.

Not a dumpster.

Settling on Wellington Harbour for today's painting, I took a few pics of the immediate area to narrow down my exact subject. Even standing a few metres away from this thing, it looks like a dumpster, but I assure you it's not. It does, however, have that unfortunate County logo on it (I unsuccessfully tried to hide it with the lens flare).

Here are the GPS co-ordinates for Wellington Harbour in case anyone wants to get there by boat:
43.951243 -77.337983 (43d 57' 4.5" N -77d 20' 29" W)
...and here's my Map of Progress.

Boats.

Ah, yes, yesterday's fog was nice and moody, but today's morning sunshine was glorious.

Q'pla!

In capturing the lovely reflections of the trees on the water, I inadvertently also captured a Klingon Bird of Prey flying by in the upper left. Or maybe it's a heron.

The subject of my painting today is just to the left of this pic.

More boats and reflections.

Nothing like The Reel Thing.
That's an actual phone booth on the left.

Families.

Lots of wildlife paid me brief visits throughout the morning (mostly birds and bugs) and I was lucky to photograph these groups of Canada Geese swimming around in the middle of my painting, so to speak.

And here's the painting.

Axel Foley's Chevy Nova (1/25 scale model)

Multiple tributes, here. I remember first seeing Beverly Hills Cop on video at my friend Chris K's house, 'cause his family had a VCR and we'd watch tons of movies (and record music videos) together. The summer of 1984 was a special time for us (having created a strong bond in school since Grade 6 a few years before), going on biking adventures around the 'burbs and into the city, etc., and home video played an important role from then until I moved to the opposite end of Scarborough just before we started high school. We liked the movie a lot, both of us fans of Eddie Murphy from his Saturday Night Live days. I don't think I'd seen the movie since then (it would have been 1985, probably summer, since the movie came out in late 1984) and I became curious to see if it still held up. It did. It does. I found Murphy as charming as ever and the comedy (and even the action) holds up very well and its very re-watchable and very entertaining. Beverly Hi

City of Angels

17" x 11", watercolour and digital, 1999 Ah, City of Angels . I thought I was getting cool film noir but got a cheesy musical instead (Google it if you must). Still, it was fun to make the poster and associated images, mostly because the research consisted of watching real films noir and buying a great book on movie posters of the genre. I made tons of sketches and a few digital mock-ups. For the final poster above, I made three separate watercolour paintings (one of the couple and one each of the two black and white heads) and composited them in Photoshop, where I also added the text. In true movie poster fashion, I wanted the actors names to be the top two names, but I lost that battle and had to use the characters' names instead. It looks fine, but it implies that "Kingsley and Stone" are the lead actors in the show. Oh, well...it's only community theatre... By making the "angel" above half black and white and half colour, th

Small Pond Arts Puppet Wagon (1/24 scale model)

I dreamed up the Small Pond Shipyard for my fanciful scratch-built sci-fi airship creations (which still only exist in sketch/Photoshop mock-up form (and boxes in my closet) for now), but more and more ideas kept coming ( this wind turbine , for example, will be part of a rather elaborate diorama I'll be working on this winter). But the Puppet Wagon was a sleeper surprise, to be sure. [Really, though, I don't know why I was so eager to build this right away since I was planning to slowly develop my modelling skills with simpler builds first and the work my way up to more complicated projects.] Not all parts were used/needed. Most of these ideas have come from watching modelling videos online, and when I saw a review of this sweet little Japanese "Ramen Shop" food truck by Aoshima (right-side drive!), my brain started making jokes about customizing it to the weird food truck ideas I'd been posting on Facebook. But the more I thought about what the co

The Naked Silo

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