http://citypainter.ca Toronto Paintings Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:02:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en AUGUST 2010 | Acrylic on Canvas | 9" x 12" | View Larger » Bright Street is probably my favourite street in Toronto. It's so small and quiet you can easily miss it. I only discovered it by accident a few years ago while cutting north from King Street ... http://citypainter.ca/paintings/bright-street-houses/ AUGUST 2010 | Acrylic on Canvas | 9" x 12" | View Larger » This painting shows the view along Queen's Quay East looking westward from Jarvis Street on the Toronto waterfront. The railway tracks are abandoned, fading into gravel alongside the paved street. On the left of the ... http://citypainter.ca/paintings/redpath-rails/ JULY 2010 | Acrylic on Canvas | 11" x 14" | View Larger » This painting shows the details of some doorways of an abandoned building on the south side of King Street just east of Parliament Street. This is in the Corktown neighbourhood of Toronto, so named because of ... http://citypainter.ca/paintings/corktown-doorways/ MAY 2010 | Acrylic on Canvas | 6" x 8" | View Larger » This is a view from St. James Park, looking south towards King Street East. The man on the bench is being flocked by pigeons as he feeds them while a TTC 504 streetcar passes by in ... http://citypainter.ca/paintings/st-james-park/ MAY 2010 | Acrylic on Canvas | 11" x 14" | View Larger » The Gardiner Expressway is an elevated highway that crosses the southern edge of Toronto, skirting the shore of Lake Ontario. In recent years the expressway has become controversial for cutting off pedestrian access to the redeveloping ... http://citypainter.ca/paintings/gardiner-expressway-ramps/ APRIL 2010 | Acrylic on Canvas | 8" x 10" | View Larger » The Wokker is a little restaurant on Queen St. East just past the Don River, roughly where Riverdale becomes Leslieville (these boundaries are pretty vague, it seems). I've never eaten there, but it has the look ... http://citypainter.ca/paintings/the-wokker-restaurant/ APRIL 2010 | Acrylic on Canvas | 9" x 12" | View Larger » It took me a year and a half of painting other locations around the St. Lawrence Market neighbourhood before I finally worked up the courage to paint the main market itself. The challenge is that the ... http://citypainter.ca/paintings/st-lawrence-market-south-building/ 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/