Mango. mango, mango.

I think it's harder for me to paint a small painting like this than a bigger one because there's a finite space to paint within. I tend to over think and go over the same area over and over again.

5x7 in. oil on board

sketchbook

I was feeling slightly nauseous before I started sketching at the Bloor Gladstone Library after work today and after I finished this spread the nausea disappeared. Something was reaffirmed today: sketching is my meditation.

Avocado

oil, 5x7inc. on masonite board.

Sketchbook

Some more random people on the train and at the mall.

Duck Duck Goose

What should have been a small, quick oil turned out to be a marathon session of a painting that I revisited several times.
I tend to over think these paintings and knit pick a lot.

Ottawa Airport Grounds Crew

 Final painting. Oil on cradle board. 11x17 in.

I took a trip to Halifax, Nova Scotia this summer and there was a stop over in Ottawa. I thought the view out my window would make a perfect painting. Here are two images of works in progress prior to the finalized painitng.