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JULIE C OURCEAU

Albumen print

7/3/2017

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I have recently completed a drawing/painting inspired by tones, depth, order, content and maps of the initial Toronto settlement and grid. The dependence and turn to the Don River and the Don Valley is quite obvious in this drawing. Most importantly, observing many paintings and maps, I was struck and inspired instantly when finding this particular print.

The print  (here below) is one depicting the casual meeting at the Government House. The setting is massive in scale, the beautiful trees and open lawns bring us to a different world in Toronto,  with a sensuous sense of space, luxury I could say, and calm.  Hard to image this former King Street.

The Albumen print, also known as albumen silver print, used the albumen found in egg whites to bind the photographic chemicals to the paper and became the dominant form of photographic positives from 1855 to the turn of the 20th century.

The Gallica site has a wonderful description of its origins.

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Inspiration photograph, Government House (1815-1860), Simcoe St., s.w. cor. King St. W., Toronto, Ont. Armstrong, Beere and Hime, Toronto Picture, 1858, English
The space in the drawing is precisely what we have a hard time imagining in our intensifying, dense, city. Here is a detail of the grid within the painting, where the town would have rooted, inspired by materials, textures, and the depth of this photograph.
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in progress, watercolour, ink and graphite, 2016
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in progress, detail, watercolour, ink and graphite
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Inspiration drawing and reference, Garrison reserve and town of York. Unknown Map, 1816
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    about the author

    The blog connects thoughts on Landscape and Architecture, design, and mostly the connections between landscape architecture, art and our beautiful Toronto.
    I like to think that the large works on paper on which I assemble different drawing methods represent a kind of inventory or document about the state of our urban rivers.
    These works are of sort, investigations though architectural representation, cartography, abstract drawings, watercolour paintings, sketching, collages, and mostly creating pieces; connections and projections of history,  the environment, natural, man made, and often times, the abstract.
    Playing music, when not submerged in the creation of spacial art.

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