June 30, 2025 0

Today’s Watercolour

By in Cars, color, Gouache, men, paintings, pencil, self-promotion, sketches, watercolor, watercolour

Watercolour of people gardening in front of their house near a car and trees...

I’m getting back into this. It takes a while to “ramp up” with watercolour, if you want to take it seriously. Still a ways to go, however!

June 30, 2025 0

Late June Montreal Metro Drawings

By in ballpoint pen, children, color, digital, Gouache, heads, Jack's House of Cats, pen and ink, Portraits, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, women

Pen and Ink drawing of people
I’m lying just a bit. Because only the guy on the upper right was drawn while I was waiting for the train. The rest are from my imagination, and I coloured them at home, and scanned the drawing in.

Oh, okay … I adjusted a few things with my drawing software, but purely by hand. And I digitally “crossed out” something personal….

I’m sort of realising I can just gas on here about whatever. And I don’t know about coding, because I’m not doing it down here…..

June 28, 2025 0

Dog and Plant and Pretzel Thing

By in color, digital, dogs, paintings, pen and ink, sketches

This is another sketchbook drawing which I scanned, and then added to, digitally. No AI!

June 26, 2025 0

Digital, Drawn, Photographed whatsit….

By in ballpoint pen, cats, color, digital, paintings, pencil, sketches, watercolor, watercolour

 

Drawing of a cat and an unhappy face

Okay, this is done with every kind of media, and NO AI!

June 24, 2025 0

Front Window

By in Art Criticism, color, Gouache, montreal, paintings, ruttan's place, sketches, watercolor, watercolour

Watercolour image of my front window view
Today's snapshot of the view I was trying to get with the watercolour picture....
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….

June 21, 2025 0

Another Nonce Cat Drawing

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Watercolour and pen drawing of a cat

So it goes….

June 19, 2025 0

Digital Watermelon

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Digital painting of a watermelon

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….

June 15, 2025 0

Pencil Cat

By in black and white, cats, Jack's House of Cats, pencil, self-promotion, sketches


monochrome pencil drawing of a tabby cat

Again, not too much effort, but it is a cat…..

June 13, 2025 0

Station Peeeeeel…………

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Watercolour drawing of people on the Montreal Metro

June 10, 2025 0

Across the Street

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Watercolour and ink drawing of a street with trees and car

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….

June 9, 2025 0

Thinking of Miyazaki….

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Watercolour of grouchy bald guy and flower

 

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….

June 6, 2025 0

Day in the Park

By in color, men, montreal, paintings, parks, pencil, sketches, watercolor, watercolour

Watercolour drawing of two men walking

Just a recent drawing I did while sitting in the park.

May 27, 2025 0

Roses and Wildflowers — Spring 2025

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Coreopsis Journal Spring 2025Watercolour of Tree and person

Here’s my “Cover Image” for the Spring edition of Roses and Wildflowers! Enjoy, and follow the links!

May 23, 2025 0

Coreopsis, and Roses and Wildflowers

By in brush pen, collaboration, color, digital, heads, machines, men, paintings, self-promotion, watercolor, watercolour, women, writing

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!

https://societyforritualarts.com/coreopsis/