I wanted to create an historical neighbourhood themed Christmas painting. What can be more Canadian than shovelling snow. Including the little guys on the porch added to the idea of the community joyfully working together.

This painting for December was the final painting for the series that I created for KidsAbility. Using as a starting point a photo from The Record archives, I tried to develop a neighbourhood feeling. Adding the little dog was the final step.

Winter sun illuminates a piece of bushland in Bechtel Park in Waterloo. Located near a housing area, this recreation area is much used for dog walking.

This painting comes directly from correspondence with a lady on Painting Doctor. It is most unusual for me to use someone else's photo as the base for a painting, but as I worked through this piece with her I saw possibilities that I quite admired.

This Kitchener neighbourhood provides a view back to my childhood, having grown up in a similar area where homemade structures such as garages, fences and lean-tos were common. Changes were made to properties before the days of building permits and other rules. This speaks to me of a time when kids roamed freely around their neighbourhood.

This painting originated from one of my older photos, and quite honestly, I cannot remember precisely where it was that I took this shot, although I know it was in Kitchener.

Using several winter photos of this back lane from my files, I created this view just off Peter Street in Kitchener. Freshly ploughed snow covers up any abandoned bits and pieces so common in such an area.

When I was an art student in Toronto in the 1960s, the back lanes around the art college became my studio, providing endless subjects for required projects. I developed a real affection for those out of the way lanes.

This painting, one of six produced for the Rogers Television Cable 20 series My View, was I think my favourite.

From the vantage point of the Sun Life parking garage, I took a series of photos that were the references for this painting of the construction of the Bauer Lofts in Uptown Waterloo. Another of the group of pieces created for Rogers T.V. Cable 20, it is the most industrial subject of that series.

The Rogers series, titled My View, is a group of diverse subjects. My attempt was to show my approach to painting any subject.