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April 18, 2025 0

Old Watercolours

By in Book Reviews, color, comics, heads, montreal, Portraits, ruttan's place, self-promotion, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, women

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 […]

April 2, 2025 0

Coen Bro.

By in cats, color, digital, men, paintings, Portraits, sketches, Uncategorized, watercolor, watercolour

I’m watching my DVDs again. It helps take my mind off the news, and other things happening around here…..

March 25, 2025 0

Train Doodles and More

By in ballpoint pen, black and white, brush pen, color, Coloured Pencils, digital, Gouache, heads, paintings, pen and ink, pencil, Portraits, self-promotion, sketches, Uncategorized, watercolor, watercolour, women

It’s a new sketchbook! These things are expensive. I’m thinking I should be like Chester Brown, and not worry about my legacy. Because I’ll be gone, and then people can fight over the old books, if they want to….

March 15, 2025 0

March 15 Post

By in black and white, heads, machines, montreal, pencil, Portraits, ruttan's place, self-promotion, sketches, women

    It’s sometimes very spooky writing these. I drew this in my sketchbook yesterday, based on people I was sitting near, while I was riding on the train to go see my friend in her Care Centre. I scanned the drawing this morning, and retouched it in the other room. The car is still […]

March 10, 2025 0

Chrystia

By in ballpoint pen, color, digital, Gouache, heads, paintings, pen and ink, pencil, Portraits, self-promotion, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, women

Instead of doing important drawings for which there is a firm deadline, I watched politics on my big TV instead. Lots of long speeches. I liked Chrystia Freeland’s face, so I drew that in my Dollarama sketchbook, with my amazing Winsor and Newton Series 150 Chinese brush. I don’t know if it’s actually a Chinese […]

March 2, 2025 0

Anne Hathaway

By in black and white, Gouache, heads, paintings, Portraits, self-promotion, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, women

This is supposed to be Anne Hathaway from The Devil Wears Prada. It looks a little like her….

February 17, 2025 0

My Friend’s Back Yard

By in cats, Jack's House of Cats, paintings, Portraits, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, women

This is from an older sketchbook, so I suppose it qualifies as “archival.” It’s my friend’s back yard, with her cat, and even a portrait of her, on the left hand side, and Yours Truly on the right. She hated being photographed, and, I’m assuming, would have hated being painted. But here you are….

February 7, 2025 0

Mischka

By in brush pen, cats, color, Jack's House of Cats, Portraits, sketches, watercolor, watercolour

Here’s a watercolour I did of the cat of a friend. Dollarama Da Vinci Paper, and paints named after some other famous artist. 6 by 9 inches….

January 23, 2025 0

Costumed Grouch

By in black and white, heads, men, pencil, Portraits, sketches

This guy’s photo went by quickly on my iPhone, and I tried to sketch him as quickly as I could. He’s 6×9 inches, in graphite on crappy dollar store paper.

December 12, 2024 0

Trees and Kid

By in heads, men, paintings, Portraits, sketches, watercolour

I’m watercolouring again. Using the cheap paper, but still, it’s good to get into things. I did the kid separately, and then digitally pasted him in. So, it’s a combination digital/watercolour work, if you want to be technical about it.

December 8, 2024 0

Lunch with Friends

By in black and white, brush pen, heads, montreal, pen and ink, Portraits, Rick Gagnon, sketches

Had lunch with a couple of cartoonist friends. Richard Gagnon, Éric Theriault, and Kurt Beaulieu. Got them to draw things in one of my old sketchbooks. Whee! Almost like the good old days, except what’s older are us three…. This was done with my Pentel Brush Pen, which I promptly lost later in the day. […]

May 17, 2024 0

Watercolour Faces

By in color, Gouache, heads, Jack's House of Cats, men, montreal, paintings, Portraits, self-promotion, sketches, watercolour

I’m just putting this up to see how big the graphic is….  Not too impressive, eh? It’s relaxing sitting on the front balcony doodling faces and the passing scene outside. People go by, things go by, as James Agee put it… Watercolour takes a lot of work to get back to one’s level. Haven’t sold […]

May 12, 2024 0

Green Hair

By in ballpoint pen, heads, paintings, Portraits, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, women

 

August 5, 2023 0

Yelling People!

By in color, Coloured Pencils, heads, pencil, Portraits, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, women

I have to update my blog, template and all, to add new, modern things. I hope not a ton of pop-ups, etcetera. Still, this is a recent sketchbook page I actually worked on today! I’m setting up a Patreon link, and also have a cool illustration thing I’m going to share soon! Please stay tuned!

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