This small painting (5 x 8 inches) is drawn from the life of my grandfather (on my Mothers side), Edward Woolven. As a young man he worked as a driver of steam wagons operating out of a quarry near our home... in Wenvoe, Wales. As a child I was impressed with the steam wagons, traction engines and railroad steam engines that he would show us at fairs held in Cardiff. This watercolor painting was made from a photograph shown in the book "Ely Voices" by Nigel Billingham and Stephen Jones, that contained contributions from my grandfather as he described Ely from the early 1900's.
To experiment with some watercolor pencils, I created the following copy of JMW Turner's "Dunstanborough Castle, Northumberland". This is was my first use of watercolor pencils. (5 x 8 inches).
These two small paintings (5 x 8 inches) were made using travel magazine photographs (and in-person inspirations) from a visit to Washington DC.
This was a really tiny painting (3 x 3 inches) made during a trip to Nashville. It shows the replica of the Parthenon in Nashville's Centennial Park.
A few other miscellaneous paintings (~3 x ~3 inches).
Materials: Sketch books containing Canson Montval paper or Arches cold press; Winsor & Newton or Cotman tubes/pan-based watercolors; Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer watercolor pencils and Sakura Pigma Micron pens.
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