Archive for the ‘watercolor’ Category

May 22, 2014 0

Watercolours of Montreal Parks

By in color, paintings, watercolor, watercolour

Parc du Portugal Parc Edmond-Hamilton A park dog

May 14, 2014 0

More Splashy Painting

By in montreal, paintings, sketches, watercolor, watercolour

Here’s a picture of that odd building by the “Peel Basin” along the bike path in Montreal. I can’t find the reference picture I took, so there’s a lot of interesting graffiti missing here. I may put it in later. Below, I was sitting in a park watching kids playing flag football. In our day, […]

May 11, 2014 1

De Rouen Street and schoolyard

By in montreal, paintings, ruttan's place, sketches, watercolor, watercolour

More quick paintings, dashed off on my deck. The Schoolyard, with children. Not trying to put them down, I think they capture something, but one is always hard on one’s own work. This one below I did this morning, I’m not so fond of. I’ll let you judge whether you like it or not. Thinking […]

May 9, 2014 0

Watercolour Pencils, and other Watercolour-y and Pencil-ly things.

By in black and white, color, Coloured Pencils, heads, men, montreal, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, women

A lot of little drawings here, so I’m trying a new feature on WordPress (new to me, anyhow). A “Gallery.” Enjoy! Actually, it’s kind of cool, having the random order. Wish there was a function for captions, however!

April 28, 2014 0

More Watercolour Faces

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

More watercolour pictchas. Hotcha! Above and at bottom are done on my Mom’s old paper, almost like paper towel, which is very thin, buckles like crazy (I can flatten it, but it’s some work), and which absorbs tons of paint. No little puddles or run-backs (those little flower-shaped flaws) here. Still, it is very thin […]

April 6, 2014 0

Youtube and Tumblr faces

By in black and white, heads, pencil, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, women

Drawing is very calming for the nerves. Tough stuff around me, so I’ve been watching art-instruction Youtube videos, and drawing a lot of faces from Tumblr and my private photo file. Mainly Hollywood and TV people, done in pencil and sometimes watercolour.

April 6, 2014 0

Watercolour Suit Man

By in men, sketches, watercolor, watercolour

Watching this Youtube of a TV show featuring men throwing paint onto a giant piece of paper inspired me to paint this:

April 3, 2014 0

Anonymous Watercolour Woman

By in sketches, watercolor, watercolour, women

Had a bad professional experience the other night. So today, rather than do anything productive, I’ve been drawing things and posting. Also reading and watching. Playing with cats. Hope things recover! I don’t know where any of this leads, but things tend to fit together in different ways.

March 14, 2014 0

Sketchy-Sketchy

By in ballpoint pen, black and white, pencil, sketches, watercolor

I’m always drawing. It’s my nature. Haven’t been posting much of what I’ve been drawing, but thought I’d change that. An imaginary guy in blue. Below, a phone doodle drawn on scrap paper, and other characters and sketches.

February 11, 2014 0

Shirley Temple Thoughts, and Watercolour Faces

By in color, Coloured Pencils, heads, sketches, watercolor, watercolour

A little sad about Shirley Temple, whom it seemed was an icon of indomitable “cute” childhood, and also proof that you could be a child star, and then turn out all right. Drew this image not as a portrait, just as an idea, based on her image. Also did some proper faces from magazines, in […]

April 12, 2013 0

Uncommon People

By in color, watercolor

This is an ogre and his best friend, whom I painted last night, while listening to a digital painting tutorial which basically told me how hard it is to get a job digital painting.