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In November I created a couple of fun oil canvases for my birthday utilizing a bouquet I received from my mom of Star Gazer Lillies.

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Pencil crayon on 14” x 17” Bristol Board sheet. 2020

Sailboat on Shining Water (2018)

Metallic inks brushed over and around trinkets copied in pen from real source.

 

Centre details from source and drawn with pen.

The line art prior to brushing on ink.

8.5” x 11” Marker drawing of the wire swinging hamper my mother uses to hold plants in her garden.

Abstract drawings from a unique Cafe in Toronto (formerly Willow Books on Bloor Street) before a concert of The Life and Death of King Arthur by Henry Purcell. November 21 2019.
Pencil crayon on postcard sized coloured paper.

Baroque Inspired

8.5×11″ Marker drawings on watercolour pad

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The Lion’s Tail (2018) Marker on Synthetic Paper

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While staying in Toronto for a couple of months in 2020 I – mostly because of quarantine – spent countless hours staring out the big beautiful windows of the dormitory I had lived in during second year of Univeristy.

I have created many watercolours and drawings of the sky line facing both North at Casa Loma and South at Robarts Libary at UofT as a result of this past-time.

Bloor Street from Tartu College.

Robarts Library and the CN Tower

Facing North towards Casa Loma

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All works were created on half torn sheets of heavy letter sized watercolour paper in oil paint.

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Recent Works.

Transition period. The move to the lake.

I made an effort to continue painting shortly after moving. It was the late spring of 2018. I had a table with chalks and crayons littering up with castaways in notebooks. I found a small pile of postcard sized, natural fibre sheets of paper – probably intended for calligraphy and note making. It’s my favourite paper to ply with the oils. For these sketches in oil I drew out a pencil outline first. Graphite competes with amber linseed to warp the colours, sometimes suspending them in time in between phases amongst the various pigments, so it is too soon to judge if I even like the painting. These have cured for 3 years now and I am satisfied they are finally “done.”

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Lake Rubble tones, rose bush skeletons, textures of late winter. The resin candied wood of an overturned canoe on the ground in the rain.

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As they cured some of the more vibrant hues dissolved into the paper through the linseed carrier to resemble only a faint ghost of their former application. As a result I have grown to enjoy them better with age, as I am only sharing them now in 2021.

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Secondary Pieces from the collection:

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Colours have cured as they aged overtime.

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Oil on Heavy Watercolour Paper. Selection painted in 2018.

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By Christine Sherry