Just more out of the sketchbook. Whatever’s there. These are just sketches of people on the street (mainly walking dogs, by the way). I added little details like the shirt logos, and the background. And the can of fire starter. David Hemmings from Blowup
Tags: sketches
I’m running a watercolour workshop later this spring, or early summer, the dates and details are yet to be confirmed. But the place will be the Drawn & Quarterly Bookstore, at 211 Bernard West, in Mile End. This is my first try for a poster for the workshop. It will be going up in black […]
Tags: watercolour, workshop
A car that’s sort of a 1950s Cadillac, though not exactly, and a guy from the street. I was working hard today. Had time to sketch these on the sunny deck. The women are back playing baseball in the diamond near here. They’re loud, but not unwelcome.
Tags: black and white, montreal, ruttan's place, sketches
Sadly, my weekly meet with R. Gagnon was not to be. So I was flying solo. Still, Rick had his effect, because he’s been lending me these great Criterion DVDs of films such as this one, the 1954 French gangster film Touchez pas au grisbi (“Hands off the loot”), from which I drew this very […]
Tags: black and white, Film & TV, Gagnon Fridays, sketches
Two Quebec personalities from the glory days of Montreal. Maurice Duplessis (right corner), Quebec’s frightening Premier from times of yore, is laughing at a joke from the Mayor, Camillien Houde. What project is this about? Wouldn’t you like to know!
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I usually do this in the morning. Nothing interesting drawn. But tonight I’ve got Lou Reed lyrics put into the mouths of people drawn walking down the street. “What good a war without killing?” and “life’s like Sanskrit read to a pony.” You have to hear them in the proper Lou Reed deep voice, which […]
Tags: Animals, black and white, dogs, sketches
A little scattered, and nervous, but getting things done. I think these reflect my state of mind. I think everything will be okay, but have no idea at the moment how that will come about.
Tags: black and white, colour, sketches, watercolour
Fear of a pandemic grips the planet. Economic collapse has put millions out of work. Outside the window of the Cock and Bull Bar, an angry throng marches down the street for May Day, carrying red and black flags, shouting for justice and revolution. I feel suddenly like I’m in Paris, 1968. I tried to […]
Tags: black and white, collaboration, Gagnon Fridays, Jeff Leblanc, Marr, Montreal Comic Jam, photos, Richard Gagnon, sketches
“Old Yeller?” I like drawing in the morning, and I like being spontaneous, but it has its disadvantages. Certain things make me go “darn!” but I wonder if anyone will notice them, or cares. Could be a dog with ears of different length. Or maybe he’s just a dog who looks like that, and it’s […]
Tags: Animals, colour, dogs, Safety Sign, sketches, watercolour
Maybe chubby fortune-teller guy knows.
Tags: black and white, sketches
What’s a little depressing is when you go a “Graphic Image Search” (GIS for those in the know) for “pigeon,” you get a larger than usual number of dead and messed up pigeons. It’s not the main thing I think of when watching pigeons out my front door, but there are a lot of them […]
Tags: Animals, colour, dogs, watercolour
It’s good to see Rick Gagnon again, at our traditional Friday afternoon meet at the Cock N’ Bull for drawing and chat. We missed last week, and then I put this post off until today, because of all the class action excitement. But here we are again, with another batch of fun drawings. Below, can […]
Tags: Animals, black and white, cats, collaboration, Gagnon Fridays, Richard Gagnon, sketches
It was fine weather earlier this week. So I sat on my balcony, read, and drew a few sketches of the passing scene in my small (5.5″x8.5″) sketch book. Good times! And more nice weather is coming this weekend. Yay!
Tags: black and white, montreal, sketches
Kind of like what a complete page in my sketchbook sometimes looks like, rather than a nice drawing excerpted and isolated to show you. Again, the usual paints on a thin, sketchbook paper. I’m a little bit torn up this morning, because a pro illustrator (more successful than I, at least) looked over my website […]