Tag Archives: Montreal

Happy Holidays from Julian Peters Comics!

Posted on December 24, 2022 by julian peters comics

This watercolour was commissioned by the Montreal financial services firm ASSURART Inc. for their 2022 company holiday card. Like the card I did from them in 2020, it depicts a scene observed on Rue Champigny, in the Côte-Saint-Paul neighbourhood of … Continue reading →

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Les aventures de Marcel Proust : À la recherche du temps perdu

Posted on January 20, 2022 by julian peters comics

Marcel Proust’s seven-volume magnum opus, À la recherche du temps perdu, is often cited as the greatest novel of the twentieth century. Four completed volumes in, I feel this is an assessment I could definitely see myself subscribing to. Long … Continue reading →

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Proust’s Madeleine – An illustration of “À la Recherche du temps perdu”

Posted on February 18, 2021 by julian peters comics

A watercolour illustrating the most iconic passage in the seemingly endless and endlessly beautiful collection and analysis of memories that is Marcel Proust’s multi-volume novel, “À la Recherche du temps perdu” (“In Search of Lost Time”). “Et tout d’un coup … Continue reading →

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Christmas on Rue Champigny

Posted on December 24, 2020 by julian peters comics

This watercolour was commissioned by the Montreal financial services firm ASSURART Inc. for their 2020 company holiday card. It was very much inspired by the magical winter scenes by the Japanese printmaking artist Hasui Kawase (1883-1957). Although the image is … Continue reading →

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Two Montreal Views in the Style of Ukiyo-e Prints

Posted on October 15, 2020 by julian peters comics

Two scenes from near where I live – an alley in Côte-Saint-Paul and a view along the aqueduct in Verdun – rendered in a style that tries to imitate that of the nineteenth-century Japanese ukiyo-e prints by such artists as … Continue reading →

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Registration open for my Fall classes at the Visual Arts Centre!

Posted on August 29, 2019 by julian peters comics

This beautiful visual rendition of Harold Monro’s beautiful 1914 poem “Overheard on a Saltmarsh” was created by Linda Dyer, a student in my Fall 2018 Drawing and Illustration class. I’m excited to once again be teaching two classes at the … Continue reading →

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Registration open for my art classes at the Visual Arts Centre!

Posted on March 11, 2019 by julian peters comics

              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 →

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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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Registration open for my art classes at the Visual Arts Centre!

Posted on August 2, 2018 by julian peters comics

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 →

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Julian Expozines Himself Once Again (Sunday only)

Posted on November 13, 2015 by julian peters comics

Once again this year I will have a table at Expozine, Montreal’s comics and zine fair, FOR THE SUNDAY ONLY (November 15). The fair takes place in the basement of L’église Saint-Enfant-Jésus du Mile-End (5035 St-Dominique Street), from 12h-18h. http://expozine.ca/en/

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