Scadding Court Community Centre at Chinatown (above).

I connected with several recent Art Collage graduates during the pandemic. We were eager to meet to 'en plein air' sketch. I brought my watercolour gears and sometimes even stretched mounted watercolour paper on plywood to the locations. I painted scenes mostly juxtaposing buildings with nature. We were able to visit different parts of our big city by using public transit and walking to explore various neighbourhoods at the same time.

I learned the more traditional watercolour painting technique of 'transparent watercolour' from following a (father and son) art teacher duo who taught out of their home studios then in their larger suburban commercial studios over a course of 2 decades. They were trained in China and in Canada in the Beaux-Arts tradition where we were taught by attempting ourselves to recreate masterclasses painting pieces to learn to get the correct colour sense. It is also in their studio where I learned how to properly stretch watercolour paper for best colour/water absorption - a technique that does not take too much time nor skill but few seems to think it's worth doing nowadays...

View of Windmill with Medieval Times Dome from Ontario Place.


Park Trail Pond in Don Mills.

The lone guard-tree at the front steps at Central Tech Highschool TO.