The guy above looks pretty formidable. Might be doing some military-themed things in the next while. But most of what there is to do at the moment, is wait for some things to come through. Below, some more characters, including, up top, the late Montreal artist Betty Goodwin.
Tags: colour, planes, sketches, watercolour
These are a pair of characters from the beginning of Tarkovsky’s Solaris, which I am watching in the Criterion edition, graciously leant to me by my sketching friend Rick. I think they’re his production manager and co-writer, which he put into his film because they were lucky for him, and also close at hand. The […]
Tags: colour, film and TV, sketches, watercolour
Copied off the back of a comic book. A lot of work. Why do I bother?
Tags: comics, watercolour
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As promised, here’s the hot pool player that Rick beat the other night. I think she also beat the other guy, or at least he stopped playing as well as he had against Rick, for whatever reason. This is drawn just from memory. She maybe didn’t quite look so much like Morticia of the Addams […]
Tags: colour, Gagnon Fridays, sketches, watercolour
More Friday evening stuff, back at the bar. Above is a drawing by Marr which I watercoloured, and dressed up the people to make a 1960s scene, like I remember from Yorkville, Toronto’s glory days. Below is sort of by all three of us. I did two characters, Marr did a character (on the left), […]
Tags: black and white, cats, collaboration, colour, Gagnon Fridays, Marr, Richard Gagnon, sketches, watercolour
A girl from an ad for milk, and a stupid little boy.
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Here are a bunch of faces I drew last night, while watching a DVD. Not always so great trying to paint while watching something, esp. an interesting but relatively contemplative film such as Two Lane Blacktop, which demands more attention than an action flick, or similar. Generally, I wait until playing a flick again for […]
Tags: colour, Film & TV, sketches, watercolour
Precious few visitors, it seems, but the numbers were coming from points in the day, so you’d have to add them up to get a daily total. I’m not going to share that with you! Above, a painting loosely inspired by the terrific cop thriller Infernal Affairs, sort of the Hong Kong version of The […]
Tags: colour, Film & TV, sketches, watercolour
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
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….”
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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 […]
Tags: black and white, colour, pencil, sketches, watercolour