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Pencil & Watercolour in Moleskine

I just got a new scanner so I have been looking for things to test it with. I found this in my sketchbook from a couple of weeks ago. The building is the Shaw Festival Theatre.

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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 s… [...]

Cheskies

Various sizes in Moleskine

I am still not getting any painting done so, in the interests of keeping this blog alive, I am posting some sketches I did last week in Montreal. 

My daughter lives in the “Mile End” region of Montreal, in one of … [...]

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… [...]

Gruber/Maklar Duo

7″X5.5″ Pencil in Moleskine

I haven’t been painting much but I do still sketch pretty regularly. It isn’t quite as easy to use the scanner with my present setup so I have been rather remiss about posting these drawings.

On Friday we hosted another re… [...]

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 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… [...]

Starlings

11″X7″ Graphite on paper

Another “noon on the common” sketch, although it actually looks rather gothic and could pass for an Edgar Allen Poe illustration. These dead branches broke from a tree during a winter storm and the starlings love to congregate there. I only had five minutes yesterday lunchtime to get this down quickly. I also [...]

Starlings in the Snow

 

8″X5″ Pen on paper

Sitting up in the donors’ lounge again at lunch time, I watched these starlings as they flocked to the narrow strip of bare ground along the edge of the building. I don’t know what they were finding to eat there but there were hundreds of them. Of course they weren’t still for [...]

Duo

5″X7″ Pen on paper

This one is from the series of sketches I did of the boys last week. I will be doing some painting this evening but I may not be finished until quite late and I don’t want to cut it [...]