SKETCH PROCESS - UBC ENDOWMENT LANDS STUMP

In late summer I did a sketch of an old stump in the UBC endowment lands out by University golf course. Initially I wasn’t sure if I was going to do a full sketch or just a study of the stump - but ended up going for the whole scene (pretty much an identical composition to a sketch I had done in fall of 2013). While doing the sketch I took a couple of in process pictures and was able to line them up to show the development of the picture - which actually looks much more orderly and methodical than usual, due to the almost complete stump finished without any other sketching - but the effect seemed interesting - almost like a rendering of a VFX scene with complexity being layered on top of more simple foundations.

ENDOWMENT LANDS STUMP PROCESS

WINTER SKETCHING

I am hoping to add some more content to this website in the new year, but for now things are pretty slow. But I have been able to do a bit of sketching over the past couple of weeks, heading out when the weather has been clear in Vancouver. Below are a couple oil sketches. My main focus at the end of the year now is finishing off a few larger canvases that have been in progress for a while, so I can began with more or less a clean slate in 2016. 

Evening at Tower Beach by UBC, looking up Howe Sound. The logs were covered with a thick layer of frost. 

View from Spanish Banks, looking towards the North Shore mountains, covered in snow. 

WORK IN PROGRESS

This website is still very much a work in progress, but hopefully in the near future I will be able to include posts about a variety of topics, with a variety of connections to painting and art.