Mint
Posted: June 10, 2013 Filed under: Art, Design, pinterest, urbansketchers 1 CommentAfter many months away from blogging, posting 1st watercolor in a while. Been using oils so difficult to get back to the simplicity of watercolors. They are hard man, but always fun. Hope I’ll be back to show some worthy shit. This is just getting my feet or paints wet.
To blog or not to blog…
Posted: October 8, 2012 Filed under: Art, Design, urbansketchers | Tags: artist, blogging, creation 8 CommentsI’ve been debating for some time now the importance of showing every little doodle, drawing, sketch, painting and everything in between to a virtual audience. It feels weird that there is this need to show and tell instantaneously. Kudos to those that do. I certainly envy their openness about the whole process. But does that make our work any better or does it validate us anymore than just the act of doing? I have decided to take a hiatus from the world of blogging. Perhaps it’s due to Winter approaching, or perhaps it’s because I am afraid of becoming a fast food artist as a result, but for now there is certainly a need to hibernate and to withdraw in the act of creation. Many thanks to all who have liked my stuff…
Haunted JAC
Posted: October 6, 2012 Filed under: urbansketchers 4 CommentsStumbled upon the back of John Abbott College and noticed this abandoned building with its barricaded windows and eerie energy permeating through on this gloomy October day. Now I am fascinated by it and imagining so many things that could be inside and the ones that once were.
Couch
Posted: September 15, 2012 Filed under: Art, Design, urbansketchers | Tags: autumn, couch 2 CommentsSitting here on this cold and eerie Autumn evening since it’s been weird since yesterday so instead of looking at this stupid TV or sitting idly in front of the computer, I decided rather to sketch my immediate view, the couch.
My students
Posted: September 14, 2012 Filed under: Art, Design, urbansketchers | Tags: moleskine, sketch, students, yelllow 2 CommentsHere is the continuation of my adventure with this new Moleskine. So I opted for fast sketches because we all know it cannot take any moisture. In class today I caught my students working while they were unaware of my stooping around them. Such a voyeur. BTW, pardon the awful tones of my camera since I could not grasp a better tint of this unknown yellow that Moleskine uses.
My office
Posted: September 13, 2012 Filed under: Art, Design, urbansketchers | Tags: moleskine, sketch, water 8 CommentsThank you Amazon for selling me this Moleskine which I understood to be something completely different. What I got was this yellow paper, non absorbent and so not conducive for any liquid media. All this to say I used for the first time with my new 5″ x 8. 5″ Moleskine sketch pad and was freaked. This is my office. Pardon the horrible rendering…
Road to JAC
Posted: September 12, 2012 Filed under: Art, Design, urbansketchers | Tags: John Abbott College, panoarama, road, sketch, view 8 CommentsDriving towards John Abbott College always amazes me as the panorama is breathtaking and where it changes constantly as the seasons change. I sketched this in the car real quick before cops or other cars wondered why I was parked out in the middle of nowhere. I colored it later at home but I really love this road.
Fall is here
Posted: September 9, 2012 Filed under: Art, Design, urbansketchers | Tags: charlevoix, fall, leaves, montreal, season, trees 8 CommentsOne of my favourite seasons happens to be Fall but it is a bitter sweet sensation as I know what’s coming living in Montreal. Yet it is such a magical time observing leaves and trees changing on an hourly basis sometimes. It’s warm but no more tanning season and nights are cool and fresh. This image is from the Charlevoix region about 6 hours from Montreal where the air is crisp and the panorama is endless.
They’re back!
Posted: August 29, 2012 Filed under: Art, Design, urbansketchers | Tags: fever, school, sketch, students Leave a commentFirst week of school where today I began at 8:30. Ungodly hour when I’ve been off all summer and woke up when I wanted to. Not that I sleep in but to be in front of over 50 students that early is quite daunting. Trying to catch a quick sketch of the fever that occurs when school starts. Colored this later at home after a lovely little nap!
Kindred spirits
Posted: August 28, 2012 Filed under: Art, Design, urbansketchers | Tags: baie d'urfe, nature, nostalgia, weepng willow 4 CommentsAfter discovering so many wonders in Baie D’urfe with its lush nature and beautiful lake I found this weeping willow almost talking to me. It felt like he was saddened by so many things, nostalgia from better days, a lost optimism and just weeping there while no one really noticed. Him and I shared a lot of the same feelings….
The Casual Sketcher 