Archive for the ‘watercolour’ Category

June 5, 2015 0

Wedgewood Image

By in color, storyboards, watercolor, watercolour

I’m very pleased with this image from a current project for filmmaker Jonathan Balacz, WEDGEWOOD. Even though it just appears as an image on a screen inside an image. The two figures are on separate layers, and I hope will be animated to chase each other through the scene, like Punch and Judy puppets.

June 3, 2015 0

How not to Watercolour

By in color, heads, sketches, watercolor, watercolour

Doing studies of faces today. Also watching Youtube videos detailing all the mistakes I’ve been making doing watercolour. It’s nice to know, but I still have fun doing things my way. Learned stuff, though, which is always good. [Link here!]

June 2, 2015 0

Characters

By in color, heads, sketches, watercolor, watercolour

Painting characters the other day, while watching season one of “Avatar: The Last Airbender,” which is an often excellent cartoon series in terms of storytelling and characterisation. [Excerpt from Avatar: The Last Airbender] These faces aren’t from that series, but the line about the power plant was.

May 30, 2015 0

Landscape

By in color, paintings, watercolor, watercolour

Here’s another landscape. My family has a lot of landscape painters in it. Don’t know if I’m really keeping up the tradition, but it’s fun to smear paint around sometimes.

May 27, 2015 0

Two Paintings of Montreal

By in montreal, paintings, watercolor, watercolour

I need to take better notes, because it would be nice to know exactly where these places are. One is Ave Laval, I think. The one below is a converted firehall on rue Notre Dame West. Or, I could be way off.

May 23, 2015 0

Some Paintings

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

Doing a lot of paintings at the moment. Up there is the control building for the revolving bridge that no longer works. It’s from a 2012 photo, and the graffiti is old, and the bike path doesn’t even go by it at the moment. These two pictures are painted on terrible paper. Sort of like […]

May 22, 2015 0

These Faces in a Crowd

By in brush pen, color, heads, paintings, sketches, watercolor, watercolour

Petals on a wet, black bough. Seriously, yesterday I went to the Sartec mixer. That’s the Quebec union or group or whatever for French-speaking screenwriters. Got a couple of wires crossed. The meeting was taking place in the reserved salon, three stories up, and I was waiting downstairs in the bar. Met a nice couple […]

May 20, 2015 0

Dollarama Book

By in color, Coloured Pencils, men, paintings, pencil, sketches, watercolor, watercolour

Many watercolour types have to spend a lot on sketchbooks, with the proper paper and all. I found these black spiral-bound books at Dollarama, and they’re pretty good for watercolour. I worry about the paper, since it probably isn’t acid-free. Also, it tends to break free from the perforations along the side rather easily. But […]

May 19, 2015 0

Swamps Designed by Accident

By in paintings, sketches, watercolor, watercolour

Painted pictures of “swamps” today, using various random methods. Got paint in my eye. That stung a bit. Above is “wax resist,” which means drawing on the blank paper with a white china marker. I really can’t tell where it goes beforehand. This is China Marker, also my dragging the tail of the brush on […]

May 13, 2015 0

Big Gouache

By in cats, color, Gouache, sketches, watercolour

Usually, my paintings are pretty tiny. So it’s nice to break out once in a while, and paint relatively big. (11×10 inches).

May 9, 2015 0

It’s Mr. Boggedy!

By in cats, paintings, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, women

And a bonus cyclist!

May 9, 2015 0

Watercolour Graffiti

By in paintings, sketches, watercolor, watercolour

I like the feeling of a painting taped to a stretching board. It feels solid, unlike the sketchbook paper. So, when I didn’t have to finish a stretched painting I started, I just used it as a place to practice things. The result reminds me of the local “free graffiti wall” east of here on […]

May 1, 2015 0

Morning Faces, and More

By in cats, color, Nora the cat, sketches, watercolour, women

Sometimes I don’t trust the scanner to catch all the little subtleties in light watercolour tones. The colours on the palette look like little abstract comic panels.

April 30, 2015 0

Sketchbook People

By in color, dogs, montreal, sketches, watercolor, watercolour

From my second-floor deck. Also, the nearby dog run.