Archive for the ‘sketches’ Category

August 28, 2015 0

Léon and Emma

By in color, heads, paintings, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, women

This is Léon and Emma from MADAME BOVARY. Plus, a lot of attempts at watercolour “colour wheels,” and a Big Suit man.

August 26, 2015 0

Parc Médéric-Martin Wading Pool

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

I hope I haven’t already put this up. It’s from last year, and the pool has been totally renovated, so it doesn’t look like this anymore.

August 13, 2015 0

Men at Work

By in machines, men, montreal, pen and ink, pencil, ruttan's place, sketches, watercolor, watercolour

One woman, too. They’ve been tearing up the schoolyard across the street from me. I’m being driven a little snakey by the roaring of trucks, the constant beep-beep-beep, and the dust. So, I’m consoling myself by drawing the occasional picture of things. They’ll be here all August, so there is probably more to come.

August 10, 2015 0

Prefontaine Metro Station, Montréal

By in montreal, sketches, watercolor, watercolour

July 29, 2015 0

Back at the Comic Jam

By in collaboration, color, pen and ink, Rick Gagnon, sketches, watercolor, watercolour

Hadn’t been to the Montreal Monthly Comic Jam for a while. My pal Rick Gagnon invited me over, so I decided to make the effort. Pleasant seeing Rick again. He embellished a couple of drawings of mine. The watercolour is especially great, because he did this (using my paints) in very low light, where it’s […]

July 26, 2015 0

Watercolour Clematis

By in color, sketches, watercolor, watercolour

Painted clematis spilling over the newel post, while sitting on my friend’s porch.

July 21, 2015 0

Morning Face

By in sketches

Just some anonymous imaginary person, painted on the little computer.

June 25, 2015 0

Digital Painting of a Building

By in digital, montreal, sketches

I assure you, these are hard for me to do. Trying to retain a bit of the handmade charm of the drawing, while the machine wants everything straight and boring. Also, choosing colours is difficult in this medium. In watercolours there are only a few tints, which you get used to. Still, even though this […]

June 15, 2015 0

Peggy and Stan

By in heads, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, women

Did a picture of Stan, who is Peggy’s hairy friend on the “Mad Men” TV show, when I realised I had space on the paper, and should probably do Peggy too. She was much harder to draw, and I spent most of the morning on that. Oh well. I like this paper.

June 9, 2015 0

Something New

By in ballpoint pen, color, sketches, watercolor, watercolour

In a bit of a mood. So, these people are appropriate. I still love drawing with the ballpoint pen, no matter how unarchival it may be.

June 5, 2015 0

Small Paintings

By in color, sketches, watercolour

I first thought of titling this post “Fairly Insane Paintings,” but am trying to be kinder to myself. These all measured seven and half-inches wide, and I think I’m going to do a lot more of them, but on better paper. They were fun to paint. I don’t know what possessed me to put a […]

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.