Drawings

Albert Seaman's Paintings, Drawings and Essays

The next few pages contain examples of monochrome art, principally pen and ink drawings. The illustration used above as a heading for this section, is in fact a pen and ink work on illustration board, although at this size and resolution, it appears to have been created in pencil. It was produced as the centre spread for the book "Heritage Brampton - 1978", an illustrated review of some of the fine old buildings in the city of Brampton, Ontario. The original work is 17½" by 40". The house in the centre of the picture is The Boyle House, an historic building dating from the mid 1800s. It is flanked by a pair of equally historic churches, St. Paul's United on the left. and The First Baptist on the right. St. Paul's opened in 1886, and the renewed Baptist church in the same year. The latter was largely reconstructed again in 1927. Since the construction of the present City Hall in Brampton, the viewpoint from which this landscape was taken is no longer accessible, and the foreground details have changed substantially.

The following drawings have been selected from various sources, including the Heritage Brampton book. The majority were produced to illustrate publications of one sort or another. Consequently they are quite representative of the original scenes, with little or no artistic licence taken, other than to isolate and emphasize the salient features of the subject. Technical graphics are a somewhat different proposition, as may be judged from any included here. These were once prepared by hand, whereas today, they would almost certainly be computer generated. A few cartoons have also been included. This is an area where the computer will probably never take over completely.

To view the drawings, click on the thumbnails below. To return to this page, click on the picture on the target page.