http://citypainter.ca Toronto Paintings Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:37:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en FEBRUARY 2010 | Acrylic on Canvas | 11" x 14" After a ridiculously long delay, I have finally completed another painting. I think this one suffered a bit from being started back in October and then worked on only periodically through to February, but I still like the original subject. ... http://citypainter.ca/paintings/front-and-jarvis-rooftops/ SEPTEMBER 2009 | Acrylic on Canvas | 8" x 10" I've been working on this painting since July, not because it was particularly large or difficult, but because I've been too busy with "real" work to put in more than a few hours per week. The George Street Diner is ... http://citypainter.ca/paintings/george-street-diner/ JULY 2009 | Acrylic on Canvas | 9" x 12" This incarnation of the Cathedral Church of St. James has dominated the northeast corner of King and Church Streets since 1853. The building itself is huge: this painting shows only part of the spire, which at 305 feet tall ... http://citypainter.ca/paintings/the-st-james-spire/ JUNE 2009 | Acrylic on Canvas | 12" x 16" The view south from the main square of Toronto's now touristified Distillery District reveals a scene that looks almost as industrial as it was several decades ago. In this painting there are a number of focal points. Looming in ... http://citypainter.ca/paintings/south-of-the-distillery/ [caption align="alignleft" caption="The Patrician Grill Sign"][/caption] MAY 2009 | Acrylic on Canvas | 5" x 7" The Patrician Grill diner is a King St. institution, having served eggs, burgers, fries and meat loaf since 1967. It's a family run place with no pretensions and the brothers who currently run it have ... http://citypainter.ca/paintings/the-patrician-grill-sign/ [caption align="alignleft" width="474" caption="510 Spadina Streetcar"][/caption] MAY 2009 | Acrylic on Canvas | 8" x 10" I wandered a bit farther west than usual to snap this photo on Spadina just north of Richmond Street. Although this is a couple blocks south of Chinatown, you can see the awning for the ... http://citypainter.ca/paintings/510-spadina-streetcar/ [caption align="alignleft" width="474" caption="TD Centre Plaza"][/caption] APRIL 2009 | Acrylic on Canvas | 12" x 16" The intersection of Queen St. East and Sherbourne St. is not a part of Toronto most of us visit intentionally, and if we do find ourselves there we usually tend to walk through quickly. It's ... http://citypainter.ca/paintings/queen-and-sherbourne/ [caption align="alignleft" width="474" caption="TD Centre Plaza"][/caption] APRIL 2009 | Acrylic on Canvas | 6" x 8" In the space between the towering skyscrapers that make up Mies van der Rohe's TD Centre in the Toronto financial district there is a grassy plaza filled with benches, plantings and sculptures. When I used ... http://citypainter.ca/paintings/td-centre-plaza/ [caption align="alignleft" width="474" caption="Gooderham Flatiron Building"][/caption] APRIL 2009 | Acrylic on Canvas | 9" x 12" The Gooderham Flatiron Building at the intersection of Front and Church is one of Toronto's most distinctive and historical buildings. It's also one of the most photographed, though the usual tourist vantage point is a ... http://citypainter.ca/paintings/gooderham-flatiron-building/ [caption id="attachment_77" align="alignleft" width="474" caption="Distillery Smokestack II"][/caption] JANUARY 2009 | Acrylic on Canvas | 8" x 10" This is the second in a series of two smokestacks in the Distillery District of Toronto.   Now fully converted into a tourist, artist and condominium destination, the idle smokestacks still rise above the Victorian buildings ... http://citypainter.ca/paintings/distillery-smokestack-2/