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Comics
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot
Category Archives: illustration
Registration open for my art classes at the Visual Arts Centre!
I’m very excited to be teaching two classes at the Visual Arts Centre in Westmount this: “Dessin et illustration/Drawing and Illustration” on Thursday mornings from 10am-1pm and “Illustration de bande dessinée/Comic Book Illustration” … Continue reading
Il deserto dei tartari
“Guardateli, Giovanni Drogo e il suo cavallo, come sono piccoli sul fianco delle montagne che si fanno sempre più grandi e selvagge. Egli continua a salire per arrivare alla Fortezza in giornata, ma più svelte di lui, dal fondo, … Continue reading
Posted in dino buzzati, illustration, painting, watercolour
Tagged acquarello, dino buzzati, il deserto dei tartari, montagne, mountains, shadows, the tartar steppe
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Crayola Fall Sketches
I haven’t been posting much new work these last couple of months, mostly because I’ve been teaching at four different school this semester and have had time for little else (I have, however, been doing a fair bit of doodling, … Continue reading
Posted in illustration, montreal, sketches
Tagged cote-saint-paul, crayola, crayons, fall, Montreal, sud-ouest, urban sketching, Verdun
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“Before the Battle” by Siegfried Sassoon
In honour of Remembrance Day and of the hundredth anniversary of the end of WWI, an adaptation of a poem by my favourite war poet, Siegfried Sassoon. Sassoon (1886-1967) wrote this poem only a few days before the Battle of … Continue reading
The Iguana
Anna Maria Ortese’s 1965 novel L’iguana (translated into English from the original Italian as The Iguana in 1987) tells the tale of Count Aleardo, a wealthy young Milanese aristocrat who arrives on a tiny island off the coast of Portugal … Continue reading
Le Grand Meaulnes
Today marks the 104th anniversary of the death of the French novelist Alain-Fournier. Henri Alban-Fournier (Alain-Fournier was a pen name) was killed in action on September 22nd, 1914, the last day of summer, at the onset of a long dark … Continue reading
Posted in illustration, World War One
Tagged alain-fournier, color pencils, le grand meaulnes
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Below Isola San Giulio
Like its larger and more well-known neighbours, Lake Maggiore and Lake Como, Lake Orta (il lago d’Orta) in Northern Italy is remarkably deep, measuring almost 150 metres at its deepest point. Given this fact, and the documented existence of dragons … Continue reading
Posted in illustration, watercolour
Tagged isola san giulio, italian lakes, lago d'orta, lake monsters, lake orta, underwater
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Registration open for my art classes at the Visual Arts Centre!
I’m very excited to be teaching two courses this Fall at the Visual Arts Centre in Westmount: “Initiation à l’illustration/Introduction to Illustration” on Thursday mornings from 10am-1pm and “La bande dessinée et le roman graphique/Comics and the Graphic Novel” on … Continue reading
El camino es fatal como la flecha
“El camino es fatal como la flecha/ pero en las grietas está Dios que acecha”(“The road is as fatal as an arrow/ but between the cracks God is watching.” -Jorge Luis Borges, from “Para una versión del I King”
Posted in illustration, Poetry
Tagged I Ching, jorge luis borges, para una version del I King, poetry, train tracks, train tunnel
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Giovanni Drogo first lays eyes on the Bastiani Fortress -From Dino Buzzati’s Tartar Steppe
[My second, not necessarily more successful attempt at illustrating a scene from Dino Buzzati’s 1940 novel the Tartar Steppe (Il deserto dei tartari in the original Italian). Giovanni Drogo, a young army officer is on his way to the Bastiani … Continue reading
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