Urban Sketching: Wellington Street

Today I met my friend Cheryl to do some "urban sketching". We went to Victoria Park and decided to sketch this house on Wellington Street. After several days of painting plein air, it was a delightful change to work in pen in my sketchbook....less paraphernalia to cart, no colours to consider, just black and white. My original plan was to apply watercolour to the sketch but  I decided just to leave well enough alone. Definitely a couple of problems with this sketch, but overall I am OK with it. Cheryl and I agreed that the next time Urban Sketchers holds a symposium in the States or here in Canada, we would like to attend.

Early Birds

A group of my artist friends ( The Early Birds ) have been up early painting plein air.  This painting was inspired by one such morning excursion. We set up around 7 am on the banks of the Thames River near the corner of Wonderland and Riverside and painted until noon. What a wonderful way to start a day! This week we are going to paint near the Medway Creek.