The top one is my painting of the view from my front window. It was actually started some time ago, and I merely finished it today.
But I took a snapshot of what the actual view looks like today, and you can see what matches up, and which bits I got wrong…. It’s all thanks to the awesome power of the human eyeball, as someone once put it….
So it goes….
This is digitally painted on my unassuming computer, with my $80 digital stylus…. But no AI was involved. It’s just me messing around, getting back into the “real” world, such as it’s been. No heartstopping realism, I’m afraid….
Again, not too much effort, but it is a cat…..
Quick drawing of the view across the street. My side is blocked off. It rained a bit, but the sun came out, so it was pleasant to draw….
I was watching the Miyazaki movie THE BOY AND THE HERON recently, and it inspired me to draw this guy. The scary old man hiding inside the heron disguise. I’ll get away from drawing guys in yellow shirts soon, but this is what’s been coming up lately. So there you go….
Just a recent drawing I did while sitting in the park.
Here’s my “Cover Image” for the Spring edition of Roses and Wildflowers! Enjoy, and follow the links!
So much scary stuff in the world today! Sometimes it feels like we’re living in a post-apocalyptic science fiction story.
Well, one of the things I’ve been doing to help deal with that feeling has been doing work for the online journals of a few of my friends down south. Please visit the link below to read Coreopsis, and Roses and Wildflowers, and subscribe to them, if you like!
This critter ticks a lot of my boxes on the “Categories” section of my WordPress blog. It’s a rendering of a dog, and it’s in watercolours, and part digital….
Today was a cool day, for some reasons I won’t go into here….. Here is my Dollarama sketchbook, and (coincidentally) Dollarama Watercolours. 24 perfectly decent tubes for $4.50 Canadian total (plus tax). Probably not as quality as Winsor & Newton, or even some of the other brands at Omer Des Serres, but what does it really matter?
Looking for a cheap metal paint box now. The only ones at the art store are dear, and, according to the website, out of stock!
Mederic Martin Park sketch. Brush pen….
This sheet of paper happened to be lying around, and I don’t think I’ve put these up before, so here you go.
It’s Good Friday, and I’m sitting in my front room and typing. I’m also reading Julie Doucet’s New York Diaries, and feeling pretty grateful I’m not going through what she did.
Her work was a big inspiration to me, however, when I first came to Montreal. I picked up her free zine at a local copy centre. And later, her comic, published by Drawn and Quarterly. I may try to include links here, but if you’re reading this, you can look it up for yourselves.
