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Sink. Weekend work - a page from my Strathmore sketchbook. Acrylic & watercolour. #strathmoresketchbook#artonpaper#organicabstraction#abstractonpaper#smallpaintingonpaper#smallpaintingsforsale#artstudy Something quick. Mini painting on paper, 13 x 11 cm. #minipainting #paintingonpaper #abstractpaintingonpaper #organicabstraction #redpainting #artmontreal Blue not blue. A painting from my small sketchbook. The blues were so different alone. Ink, acrylic & gouache on paper. #smallpaintingonpaper #paintingsketchbook #abstractdrawing #organicabstraction #montrealart #canadianpainter Growth strategies. Drawing from my small sketchbook. The black & white makes this one considerably more graphic. #abstractart #organicforms #organicabstraction #artistsketchbook #abstractdrawings Something about growing. Graphite & acrylic on paper (small sketchbook), November 2025. #paintingsketchbook #organicabstraction #paintingonpaper #canadianart #studyonpaper Will you be my polypore, a sketchbook painting. Watercolour & acrylic on Strathmore paper, Nov. 2025. #sketchbookpainting #strathmoresketchbook #organicabstraction #artonpaper #artquebec A red fiction. Acrylic on paper, small sketchbook. #smallabstractpainting #paintingonpaper #sketchbookpainting #organicabstraction #redpainting Object fiction series, a small painting on paper. Sometimes lately I am working on very small surfaces - the gestures seem exaggerated at this size. Acrylic on paper, 12 x 12 cm, November 2025 Purple ones. Watercolour & acrylic on paper, October 2025. #smallworkonpaper #paintingonpaper #organicabstraction #smallpaintings #smallwork Andnowsomethinginred A small painting on paper, watercolour & acrylic, 25 x 20 cm, October 2025. I've been purposely switching up my palette a bit lately. #worksonpaper #abstractpaintingonpaper #paintingstudy #organicabstraction #redpainting Growth of sorts Ink & acrylic on paper, 24 x 20 cm, October 2025. Why is it easier to paint over something than to start on a blank page? #smallworksonpaper #organicabstraction #artonpaper #artsurpapier #artandbotany Veil. A sketcbook page, watercolour, gouache & acrylic. 10 x 19 cm. #sketchbookpage #paintingstudy #organicabstraction #canadianpainter #contemporarypainting On the surface of things A sketchbook page. October 2025. #sketchbookpage #studyonpaper #artonpaper #abstractonpaper #organicabstraction Hybrid drawing, a study. Watercolour on paper + digital. #hybriddrawing #digitaldrawing #procreatewatercolour #digitalstudy understudies A small watercolour. #smallwatercolor #abstractwatercolor #organicabstraction #smallartworks #artonpaper #availableworks (Re)covered by dots. Recent sketchbook page. Ink, watercolour & gouache. #sketchbookpage #organicabstraction #canadianart #ndgart #dessinquebec Purple. Sketchbook page. Purple Haiku Purple dot, dot, dot Morse code not always as planned Let me start again #drawinghaiku #purpledrawing #organicabstraction I tested scanning some old 35 mm slides. They were professionally photographed back in the day but I am not sure they hold up to today's digital quality. What do you think? untitled, oil on canvas, 100 x 93 cm. Studies for later work. A few drawings from a sketchbook. #linedrawings Something different, dazed & confused. A few pages from a new smallish square sketchbook. Specific pink gravity. Sketchbook page; ink, watercolour & gouache on paper. A sketchbook page has several lives.