Exactly 24 hours and seven minutes after I took the previous photo in this series, and then came out after school let out to shoot the progress of the sign’s destruction, this is what greeted me. An empty fence. No trace of the sign: no shreds of plastic board anywhere nearby, not even loose attachments […]
Tags: montreal, photos, ruttan's place, Safety Sign
“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
Consider if you will, an experiment. The police put up this safety sign this afternoon on the schoolyard fence across the street from me. I want to see how long it takes before the pristine surface is defaced with graffiti of some kind, or torn down entirely. You can watch and keep track with me. […]
Tags: montreal, photos, ruttan's place, Safety Sign
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
David Fennario, author and playwright, was once the class representative for our class action lawsuit against a collection of corporate media types. He had to bow out in 2002 because of crippling health problems, but he’s still a supporter of the ERDC and its objectives. He proved this at our celebration last Thursday of the […]
Tags: ERDC
Ron Diamond, ERDC (Electronic Rights Defense Committee) Treasurer (R) with Mireille Goulet, our butt-kicking lawyer, who won the authorization decision against a team of five top-flight legal minds on the other side. Read more about the hearings last year on my old blog here. A little late in getting this to you, because there was […]
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I want to invite freelancers of all stripes in the Montreal Area to the Brutopia Pub (1215-19 Crescent St. , between Ste. Catherine Street and René Lesvesque Blvd. Metro Guy. It’s happening from 5:30 pm to 7:30 this afternoon (Thurs. 23) to celebrate the authorization by Quebec Supreme Court of our class action lawsuit over […]
Tags: ERDC
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