One of the drawings from flights on Porter airlines between Montreal and Toronto

More chamber music drawings.

A chamber music concert in Montreal. Part of the Allegra series.

Hands on a plane

Just back from holidays and my brothers wedding. More sketches of the concert by Kathleen Battle.

On the left some sketches of the concert by Kathleen Battle. It's bloody hard to draw someone who refuses to stop moving!!

Summertime and the livin' ... is being done outside of the city. Oh joy!

Lots of hair in this one including some that belongs to my nephew playing the violin (mostly known as the violent) lower left.

Streetcar drawings November 2008

Streetcar drawings November 2008

In the waiting room at Pierre Elliott Trudeau Airport (formerly and still called Dorval Airport by most Montrealers and a gentleman in the airplane

On the plane heading to Montreal

Drawings

Must have been a quiet morning on October 2nd last year. Either that or it was a very good book. It's nice when passengers are so engaged in something (or so very still asleep) that they hold still this long.

Apparently I'm not a greenie. I just flew to Montreal for an opera. I like the thought that we will all look back at this time and collectively wonder what we were thinking.

I'm a little behind. I ran out of scans and it's always hard to find the time to do something as mindless as scanning. So a page of bits and none too interesting.

A day late but one wonders if anyone even notices? A page of bits. Small drawings are often a timing choice. When there's not a great distance to my stop or someone looks like their going to be getting off soon I make them small. The small partial drawings are obviously a gross misjudgement of the time people are sticking around on the streetcar. Summertime, baseball caps and short sleeved shirts. Winter is actually a more interesting time to draw. All the coats, scarves, hats, people bundled and still.

No one knows this but that is my favourite post in the entirety of downtown Toronto. That's the post on the left, looking awfully casual between a Bell phone booth and a Canada Post mail box. On the right are some of the very cool characters that inhabit the cyberworld all the while taking up space at The Common (coffee the way it's supposed to be made).

It's spring and I'm sitting here barely able to tear my gaze from the greening of the surrounding countryside. Daffodils and crocii litter the lawn. Hard to think of the imminent departure for the big smelly city. If it weren't for my favourite post, why I don't know just what I'd do...

Another lovely evening at the AGN's open life drawing. We were only 5 including the model. Where is everyone?

Second watercolour in a series? Hard to paint in PH when you're stuck in TO. Not sure when the next one will be...

It's post day and my mind is a complete blank. Dog hair has somehow come into play. A lot of people remark about the hair in the drawings and I was thinking back to just when I started drawing hair in detail. That's where the dog hair comes in: Commercial packaging of dog (and cat) related products and a graphic designers need to change the background colour on which the animal was shot. I redrew a lot of hair back then so that it wouldn't look like it was cut out with a pair of dull scissors. Hair, like everything else in drawing, is just a question of lights and darks and it never takes half as long as it looks like it should.

(I guess not a complete blank after all...)