A Painter's Portfolio

By Dwayne R. James

Watercolour artist and author Dwayne James lives in Peterborough, Ontario where he writes and paints as often as he can, that is when he’s not spending time with his young daughter, toddler twin boys, and his very forgiving wife.
Dwayne has a Masters Degree in archaeology, something he claims is definitive proof that he knows how to write creatively. “Indeed, the most important skill I learned in university,” he posits, “is the ability to pretentiously write about myself in the third person.”
With no formal art training, Dwayne has always preferred the self-guided, experimental approach. In fact, he taught himself how to illustrate archaeological artifacts while completing his Master’s degree at Trent University. Said his thesis supervisor at the time: “There might not be much in the way of coherent theoretical content in Dwayne’s thesis, but damn, it looks pretty!”
Dwayne had played with watercolours a little in his life, but it has only been in the last few years that he truly began to experiment and develop his style. An avid paddler and wilderness nut, it’s natural that most of Dwayne’s paintings should reflect this passion.
After spending close to a decade as a technical writer at a large multi-national computer company, Dwayne opted to look at their Jan 2009 decision to downsize him as an opportunity to become a stay@home Dad for his newborn twins, and pursue his painting and writing whenever the boys allow him to do so.
It is a decision that continues to make him giggle with wild abandon to this very day.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dwayne R. James
• Release date: Jan 8, 2013
• ISBN: 9780991749683

Dwayne R. James

Writer and watercolour artist Dwayne James lives outside of Lakefield, Ontario where he writes and paints as often as he can, that is when he's not spending time with his very forgiving family.Dwayne studied archaeology in University, and as a result learned how to write creatively. "The most important skill I learned in University," he says, "was the ability to pretentiously write about myself in the third person."With no formal art training, Dwayne has always preferred the self-guided, experimental approach. In fact, he taught himself how to illustrate archaeological artifacts while completing his Master's degree at Trent University. Said his thesis supervisor at the time: "There might not be much in the way of coherent theoretical content in Dwayne's thesis, but damn, it looks pretty!"After spending close to a decade as a technical communicator at IBM, Dwayne opted to look at their Jan 2009 decision to downsize him as an opportunity to become a stay-at-home Dad for his young twins, and pursue his painting and creative writing whenever they allow him to do so. It is a decision that continues to make him giggle with wild abandon to this very day.

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A PAINTER'S PORTFOLIO

Adventures in Watercolours.

by

DWAYNE R. JAMES

Smashwords Edition

Copyright 2013 by Dwayne R. James

Also by DWAYNE R. JAMES:

Gingers and Wry

www.gingersandwry.com

The Princess Etheria Chronicles

www.princessetheria.com

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Second Edition.

Updated on March 19, 2013 with the Shadow Spider.

Third Edition.

Updated on December 12, 2013 with Canadian Dew and Welcome Back….

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Blue-Sky Clock Tower

Canadian Dew

Determination

Fowler Paddling On The Sweetwater River

Grandpa's Fence

Helen On The Rocks Of The Dumoine

The James Homestead

Icanoegraphy: The Dumoine

Icanoegraphic: The Original

Kirk Wipper Paddles Into Peterborough

Oceans Of Grass

Paddling Portrait Of Bill Mason

Shadow Spider

Snowy Wagon

Thenken Reverie

Tickle Bird

Tiny Fisher

Violet Swinging

Water Violet

Welcome Back…

Also By Dwayne R. James

About The Artist

Introduction

There was a time in my ignominious youth when I couldn't finish any thing at all.

In fact, I used to have a dozen projects on the go at once, most of them languishing in my Work in Progress file. The problem was, when I was in the middle of one project, I'd get an idea for something even more exciting, and I would jump ship in favour of the new idea. It shouldn't be too much of a surprise to you that the new project never got finished either. On the bright side, it did demonstrate a clear