Category Archives: sketches

South American Memories

Posted on September 10, 2019 by julian peters comics

In the last year I’ve gotten into a habit of mainly posting my one-off drawings and paintings to Instagram, reserving this website for completed comics or comics-related announcements. I have just now realized, however, that as a result of this … Continue reading →

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Crayola Fall Sketches

Posted on November 27, 2018 by julian peters comics

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 →

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Two Nudes

Posted on November 29, 2017 by julian peters comics
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Graphic Note Taking at YAS! 2017

Posted on November 14, 2017 by julian peters comics

This past weekend I participated in YAS! (SYMPO! in French), the Youth Art Symposium organized by the Ottawa Art Gallery. Spearheaded by the brilliant and indefatigable OAG Youth and Educational Programs Coordinator Alexis Boyle, YAS! 2017 was aimed at bringing … Continue reading →

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Tagore in Delhi Airport

Posted on February 20, 2017 by julian peters comics

On my way back from Silchar, India, where I participated in the Anuvad Arts Festival (more on that to follow), I had an 8-hour layover at Indira Gandhi International airport in Delhi, where I read the poems of Rabindranath Tagore … Continue reading →

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Legends of Lake Orta

Posted on January 31, 2017 by julian peters comics

January 31st marks the feast of Saint Julius, the 4th-century Greek preacher who is credited with bringing Christianity to Lake Orta (Lago d’Orta), a Northern Italian lake near where my Italian side of the family lives. When San Giulio arrived … Continue reading →

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White on Black Sketch #3 – “Thinking of You” (Shiudiao Getou) II

Posted on January 12, 2017 by julian peters comics

In honour of the first full moon of 2017 (and the last of the Year of the Monkey), here is another white-gouache-on-black-paper sketch inspired by “Shiudiao Getou,” a famous poem by the 11th-century Chinese poet Su Shi (or Su Tungpo). … Continue reading →

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White on Black Sketch #1

Posted on November 29, 2016 by julian peters comics

Fantasy landscape painted in white opaque watercolour on black paper. The composition and perspective are a little wonky because I started painting directly on the blank page (or rather black void), inventing the scene as I went along.

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Experimentation with white on black drawing

Posted on July 27, 2016 by julian peters comics

In an effort to imitate the great early twentieth-century wood engravings by such artists as Lynd Ward, but without having to figure out how to do actual wood engravings, I thought I would try my hand at drawing on black … Continue reading →

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“Graphic Note Taking” at the Ottawa Art Gallery

Posted on July 13, 2016 by julian peters comics

Tomorrow evening, July 14, I will be taking part at an event at the Ottawa Art Gallery in downtown Ottawa. How Deep Is Your Rhizome? is a multimedia exploration of such wide-ranging but curiously interconnected issues as old-growth forests, gift economies, … Continue reading →

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