I’ve seen this cat every morning for years now, when I walk up rue Chapleau to the corner store at Hochelaga to get a banana or a beer. His owner called him “The King” once, so he’s the King of the block. Getting on in years now (think he’s about 16-18 years old), but still […]
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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.
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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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This person I’m doing work for was very impressed with the maple trees along my street. So I thought I’d post a snap. All of this yellow-green is blossoms, which will fall soon, and carpet the sidewalk. Already I can hear the vroom of the street vacuum buggies prowling the sidewalks to pick it up. […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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!
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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
Change of pace: Took a tour yesterday of Westmount and Notre Dame de Grace (NDG) in Montreal with a friend. Part of it was a walk in the greenhouse attached to the Westmount library. Took pictures, and my friend was gracious enough to identify all the plants in the pictures. You can see the entire […]
Lots of action at the Montreal Monthly Comic Jam last night, at the Cock N’ Bull pub! The Jam happens every last Thursday of the month at the pub, 1944 Saint Catherine Street west (Metro: Guy), around 8 pm. I’m going to try to place a link to our facebook page: [link] Below is some […]
Tags: black and white, collaboration, comics, Jeff Leblanc, Marr, montreal, Montreal Comic Jam, photos, Richard Gagnon, sketches
Oh heavenly frosty father, wash away our sins with your snowy grace. Amen. I don’t know if this is sacrilegious or not, but to me it’s pure Montreal.
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A carriage, this time. I think it was done on the same day as yesterday’s.
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Not much time for sketching today. So, I threw on something pretty from an old book I don’t think has been posted here before. It’s exercises outside of the circus tent, one summer in the Old Port in Montreal.
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