The Watercolours of 2016

Since it can be difficult to find an individual painting or groups of paintings on a blog, even if you click on a tag/label, I've decided to gang up all my recent watercolours in one post. I've also done this with my County 101 and 33 on 33 marathon series (and my models, Sci-Fi and Automotive), and I might even go back and do this with some others like my Interiors, Yupo, and Sunflowers series.

So here are all 19 of my watercolour paintings of 2016 (not including a small handful of commissions) in one handy place. Click on a painting to go to its own post for details and info.

Krista and Caitlin in Banff
15" x 22", watercolour, 2016

Rosebud in Picton Harbour

15" x 22", watercolour, 2016

Taylors' Tractor
15" x 22", watercolour, 2016

The Crossing
15" x 22", watercolour, 2016

With Fever You Wil Have A Bout
22" x 15", watercolour, 2016

Stojan at Greenwood & Dundas
22" x 15", watercolour, 2016

Midsummer Night
15" x 22" watercolour, 2016

Silence in Heaven
22" x 15", watercolour, 2016

Artificial Heart
22" x 15", watercolour, 2016

Things Are Looking Up
15" x 22", watercolour, 2016

Lost in a Riddle
15" x 22", watercolour, 2016

Inside A Broken Clock, 1

15" x 22", watercolour, 2016

Inside A Broken Clock, 2
22" x 15", watercolour, 2016

Statuarial 6
15" x 22", watercolour, 2016

Statuarial 5
15" x 22", watercolour, 2016

Statuarial 4
22" x 15", watercolour, 2016

Statuarial 3
22" x 15", watercolour, 2016

Statuarial 2
15" x 22", watercolour, 2016

Statuarial 1
15" x 22", watercolour, 2016

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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

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