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A Taste of Empire

7″X5.5″ Pencil in moleskine

Jovanni Sy is playwright in residence at the Shaw Festival this year. The likeness is not good (sorry Jovanni but you wouldn’t stay still). He has been working on a performance piece scheduled for production next month… [...]

Maybelline

5.5″X7″ Pencil on paper

Sweet Maybelline is a Sato. She has brown rings around her eyes, hence the name. She is a very passive and laid-back dog, happy to be a follower. This is just as well because her companion, Trigger, is very much the alpha … [...]

Waiting for the Plane

5.5″X3.5″ Pencil in moleskine

Well I am back from my travels and ready to start posting again. I did some sketching in Puerto Rico and took hundreds of photographs, both with my Canon EOS and with my new toy. I bought a very cheap ($100) mini-camc… [...]

Bust

3.5″X5.5″ Pencil in moleskine

I mentioned that, when in Montreal, we stayed in a friends lovely house full of art. This is a bust of the owners son, now a grown man, when he was about 13 I think. I am ashamed to say that I can’t even remember the… [...]

More WIP

Further work on my commission

Here is my further progress on my pet portrait commission. I have tried to punch up the contrast a bit but I am still very unsure of the expressions. My source material is so scant and I barely know the annimals in question having only “met” them once. I guess I [...]

Mr. Bassman

11″X14″ Oil on boardI am still not achieving very much so I thought I would post something from the archives just to keep this blog warm. This is one of my sons, he hasn’t been playing much recently, unfortunately. I hope he returns to it one day, I lo… [...]

More Sketches

Various sizes pen & pencil in MoleskineThese are probably the last of the sketches that I will post from the craft show last week. Rebecca was selling photographs and paintings, Susan is a Jeweller, Melyssa makes lovely things from handmade paper a… [...]

Steph

3.5″X5.5″ Pencil in moleskineSteph was another vendor at the craft show last weekend, she sells “Accessories for the cute, dark and wonderfully strange!”

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Erin

7″X5.5″ Pencil in MoleskineThis is our fearless leader. Erin did all the hard work of organizing this weekend’s show. I think it should be counted a success, even though it wasn’t really for me. It was the first show for this particular group and it al… [...]

Knitter

7″X5.5″ Pencil on MoleskineI spent the day at a craft show, the first I have ever taken part in. I am not sure whether it is the right venue for me, but a fun experience anyway. It is showcasing the local chapter of Etsy sellers, mostly jewellers. This… [...]