Wow. Painting dark in watercolour is hard. Or, at least involves different skills than slashing away at a light picture. With light things, there’s always a chance of overworking something, and spoiling it. With these, there always seems to be something else you can do, which will make it a better, more interesting picture. I’m […]
Tags: colour, horses, watercolour
The drawings here, as they’ve been on most Saturdays since I’ve been blogging, are from the previous evening spent drawing with friends at the bar. Sadly, Marr was doing family stuff and wasn’t there, but Rick Gagnon and I were. We drew a bunch of stuff. Above is a drawing I made on the metro, […]
Tags: black and white, collaboration, Gagnon Fridays, Richard Gagnon, sketches
This is Philarette, one of the loveable characters from the movie Malpertuis. He’s especially adept with rusty scalpels and other instruments of taxidermy. “This isn’t going to hurt… Well, maybe a little….”
Tags: colour, Film & TV, sketches, watercolour
The guy in the watercolour above is looking kind of dumb, and standing awkwardly, doing nothing. But then again, so is the bear. Will something happen? I doubt it. Meanwhile, I painted another sketch of Orson Welles: I’ve been watching the DVD of Malpertuis, which is a brilliant, but little-known French or Flemish fantasy film […]
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Just a companion for yesterday’s man. Working on some other things, which might be ready, soon.
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Mainly making little drawings, in this small book I found. Because they take less time. Really, I wanted to practice placing values, and, of course, making a nice picture. If I do something I really like, I can make it into a big picture, and I hope, get the values right so you can tell […]
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Nothing too ambitious. I was out of the house for most of the weekend, and working on other things than making pictures. I’m going to have to learn how to scan watercolours in better quality. There’s a site which talks about that. But it recommends a lot of little steps, and I can hardly tell […]
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More drawings yet. There’s always one or two I seem to miss, back in the book. Above is my drawing with Rick’s expert dry-brushing. I wish I had made Orson bigger. He’s being taken to one of his later voice-over gigs. Maybe Optimus Prime in The Transformers. Below, the woman from last week has gained […]
Tags: collaboration, Gagnon Fridays, Marr, Richard Gagnon, sketches
More collaborative hijinks at the bar last night. This time, not so many drawings. I love the one above by Marr and R. Gagnon, with gun added by Yours Truly. Below is by Marr and I: Rick drawing with his magic brush pen: Something by Marr and I. Rick didn’t like the water, and tried […]
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Back to random sketches in my book, and cryptic words, which are merely notes I write to myself for some totally unrelated project. Looks fairly crazy, though, doesn’t it? Some other time I’ll write something rambling, but I have to walk up a hill in freezing weather and wind (but it is sunny out), to […]
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He’s coming to your door!
Tags: sketches
Not too much to say right now. Wrote a lot today, and I seem to be out of words!
Tags: black and white, sketches
A few faces I did last night. The ones up above start with a base of some colour or another. Then I go at it with that colour as a theme. The guy below was painted with a dry brush that was pretty saturated with paint, if that makes sense. Most of these are done […]
Tags: collaboration, colour, Gagnon Fridays, Marr, Richard Gagnon, sketches, watercolour
The first one is from a photo in a movie mag. Defiance, if you care. The rest are out of my fevered head.
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