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 […]
I’ve been busy with “stuff” and have neglected the blog a little bit. By that, I mean I didn’t post something yesterday. Scandal! Well, as I said, my friend and collaborator Rick Gagnon was away in New York, hobnobbing with the Hoi Polloi. Meanwhile I was toiling here in my dungeon in South Central Montreal. […]
Tags: black and white, collaboration, ERDC, Gagnon Fridays, Richard Gagnon, sketches
Still excited about the ERDC win a couple of pasts now back. But still drawing things. I’m working in black and white, because I’ve got an upcoming gig, and want to be sure I can handle it with aplomb. So, it takes a little practice for me to “get back in the groove.” Happily, it’s […]
Tags: black and white, sketches
Spent an interesting evening at the Drink and Draw at the Casa del Popolo. Not many people there, but we were a happy table. I had to relax a bit before I could really draw stuff, hence the exercise above. Later I drew this hipster guy, who is a little more legible: I did a […]
Tags: sketches
This astonishing piece of art is the high point of my conceptual and technical ability so far.
Tags: black and white, sketches
Mainly painting boring [pointing] old men in suits. Don’t know why I do these. They’re not for entertainment. They’re just what come out, instead of women in bikinis and such-like. Anyhow, I’m having fun with my new dreary paint colour. It’s mainly sort of a zen exercise for me. But perhaps I’ll get onto something […]
Tags: sketches, watercolour
Reported in an earlier post that the Art-Tec store had gone out of business and was having a sale. I saw the building while going by in a bus, taking my cat to the vet (it was to get her stitches out from spaying surgery: very successful). But the store was sad: all of the […]
Tags: Film & TV, montreal, sketches, watercolour
More faces, this time drawn with fellow artist and bon vivant Rick Gagnon, during our weekly soirée at the Cock N’ Bull bar. Above it’s my worst enemy, the phony film director guy who wants me to work for him for no money. He’s not at all like the real directors I know, who actually […]
Tags: black and white, collaboration, Gagnon Fridays, Richard Gagnon, sketches