People





Sketches in Moleskine








I spent a lot of time watching the passers-by in Mile-End when I stayed in Montreal. I tried to sketch the people from memory because they moved around too much to get any kind of likeness, I tried to just capture some types. The gentleman's hat in the foreground is a little off, although they do wear them right on the top of the head, I haven't quite got the angle right.


I have finally finished painting the back porch and am now determined to take a few weeks off, so maybe I will actually do some more creative painting over the next couple of weeks.



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The Cellist

5″X7″ Pencil on paper

I thought it was time to do some more figure studies and I haven’t drawn my kids for a while. I love drawing them when they are playing, their instruments are so beautiful and the intense concentration with which they play is very appealing. Drawing and painting people from photographs is actually very hard, I try to do it only when I am painting people I know very well. Even then it is easy ro allow distortions to creep in.

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