June 19, 2014 0

Morning Paintings

By in color, paintings, sketches, watercolor, watercolour

walker

Morning paintings, on my deck.

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I’m aware that one of the cars is on the sidewalk, but I didn’t plan this one very well. Still, I like it.

June 13, 2014 0

Cool Colours

By in color, digital, heads

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Trying to do shadows, contrasts, in a different colour palette. Still a ways to go, but I’m happier with some aspects. Seems to take a lot of practice.

June 4, 2014 0

Backyard Sketches

By in black and white, brush pen, color, sketches, watercolor, watercolour

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These are sketches from the backyard garden of my cherished friend. Above is a gingko tree, though it’s hard to tell.

Below, a hair in the scanner, darn it. But I’m too lazy to erase it.

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The spindly-looking thing is a catalpa tree, which apparently takes a while to “leaf out.”

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I was using Asian brushes, and flatter myself that these have a far East feel to them. The brush makes the bones, and the chi should keep flowing!

June 4, 2014 0

More Paintings in Parks

By in montreal, paintings, parks, watercolor, watercolour

Parc des Faubourgs. I painted this from the steps of the Latin American Church across the street (rue Ontario). That’s my bike on the right.

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Square Viger. Called “Square” in both English and French (not “Carré”) This is an odd little place, full of sculpture, but which has a bed reputation, because it’s isolated and walled in. The city keeps threatening to do something with it. The little men in orange are construction workers passing through.

parc viger

It’s always interesting doing these drawings because you sit quietly in a place for a little while. Things happen and pass by that you wouldn’t notice, even on foot.

May 24, 2014 0

Intense faces and others

By in digital, heads, paintings

emo

One nice thing about drawing on the computer is that you can rework things infinitely. Squish ’em up, stretch them, repaint seamlessly, etc. These two drawings were absolute messes, but I’m sort of happy with them now. Still a ways to go in technique.

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May 24, 2014 0

Church Ladies and Sad Girls

By in color, digital, paintings

Drawn on the computer with my Wacom tablet. From my imagination.

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I don’t know why I’ve drawn these women in a church setting, but I was reading a fantasy story with a stern priestess in it, and my friend has been going to a church.

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This one makes me think of the Bruce Springsteen song “Candy’s Room.”

Another generic sad girl. I’m obviously not going for a super-realistic approach here, but that’s fine.

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Computer drawing is fun again. You somehow have to “see” what you can do, and know how to use the right brushes. Drawing shaded faces on paper with the pencil helped a lot. And practicing, of course.

May 22, 2014 0

Watercolours of Montreal Parks

By in color, paintings, watercolor, watercolour

Parc-du-Portugal

Parc du Portugal

Parc-Edmond-Hamilton

Parc Edmond-Hamilton

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A park dog

May 16, 2014 0

Imagined States of America

By in sketches

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Another article for Roverarts.com. This time, it’s the first film review I’ve written in a long while. Read it here.

May 14, 2014 0

More Splashy Painting

By in montreal, paintings, sketches, watercolor, watercolour

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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, we threw each other to the ground. That still happens a little bit. It’s been a while since I’ve played, and my skills there are weak. Trying different colour schemes.

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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.

schoolyard

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 about colour schemes, but my philosophy with these paintings is like the cat doing whatever he or she does after a big jump. Licking oneself, and pretending, “I meant to do that.”

rouen-street

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!

May 4, 2014 0

Another art article by Yours truly. Louis Boudreault at Han Art Gallery

By in Art Criticism

Boudreault

http://roverarts.com/2014/05/louis-boudreault-destinies/

This has been up for a day or so, and I didn’t know it. Thought either e-mail was broken, or there was something wrong with the article, and they were too shy to get back to me.

May 4, 2014 0

Morning Pencil Faces

By in black and white, men, pencil, sketches, women

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In kind of a funk at the moment because of beginning of the month, raining all day blues. Drawing silly faces helps sublimate some of that. These are scanned, and I may try to do something with them.

May 3, 2014 0

Crime Faces, Etc.

By in black and white, cats, men, pencil, sketches

Drawing some big things in pencil. Too big for the scanner, so I took some snaps!

cossack

I used hair spray as fixative. It’s fruit-scented, so not as nasty (or expensive) as standard fixative, but you get tired of the smell after a while anyhow.

puddytat

Inspired a little by an art show I saw. Will post an article about that later, when it goes up!

Some movie faces. People are looking better, more in proportion. But Roy Scheider looks a little like Vladimir Putin. Will work on that.

crimefaces

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