I just love to draw everyday objects, botanicals,  street scenes and buildings that have meaning for me or catch my eye. 

Bathurst Loop

There’s a turnaround and transfer point at Bathurst and Queens Quay on Toronto’s waterfront.  I sometimes used to transfer to a Bathurst car here when I worked in the King/Bathurst
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Philosopher’s Walk

Nestled between RMC and the Royal Ontario Museum on Bloor is the entrance to the nicest little footpath through a part of U of T’s downtown campus
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Anglican Church of Canada Offices

North of St. James Cathedral there is a row of Victorian offices that run up to Adelaide and around the corner. Built in the same brick as the church, the
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Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto

I bought myself a sketchbook with a wide format.  I’d been admiring other people’s ability to create some wide street scenes.  I really had fun with this.  I think I’ll
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Elmsley Place

This house in Toronto’s Annex was purchased by St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto in 1920 and still serves as student housing. I wanted to sketch it because of it’s
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37 Madison

37 Madison

I saw this house in a real estate listing for about 7 M. It is currently being used as offices for an advertising agency. I think the sunrise light bathing
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Cabbagetown brick rowhouses

Cabbagetown rowhouses

These tiny 2 story rowhouses are in the Cabbagetown neighbourhood on Alpha Avenue.
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Cobourg Town Hall

We travelled the full length of Ontario’s old Highway 2 from Toronto to the Quebec border this summer and discovered a lot of new sites along the way. This elaborate
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Cheese Magic in Kensington Market

Kensington Market-Cheese Magic

This is the Cheese Magic shop in Toronto’s Kensington Market neighbourhood.  A predominately Jewish owned shop location in the 1950’s and 60’s, it has welcomed numerous waves of immigrant shop
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The L

The “L”

Something reminded me of a sign above a hotel in Dryden, ON where only one letter remained illuminated. Locals referred to it as “The ‘L'”.
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Church Street Pawn Shops

This month was voting day in Ontario and our polling station was at the Metropolitan United Church on Church Street in Toronto.  There’s a couple of blocks of Church between
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Sketching Bombay Palace

When I got my first job in Toronto about 20 years ago, the staff at the theatre took me out to lunch at the Bombay Palace where they had a
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