Not my first painting but certainly the first watercolour where I felt I have made significant progress.  

So there I was with this photograph of my best friend's dog.  I had paper from a sketch book and I knew a bit about stretching watercolour paper.  So I tried it with the sketchbook paper and it worked!!

Then I drew the image and proceeded to paint it.  I had some idea how the watercolours would work having seen an exhibition of the art of Ken Danby at the DeVooght Galleries in Vancouver.  I had also done some watercolours before but in this one everything came together so perfectly.

It would be a while before I came up with anything near this painting.