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Week 9, Unfinished

The Holidays with its string of running around, cooking, prepping the house and having a dozen people over for a few days have left me with stolen minutes here and there to draw, which ended this week’s HES with two unfinished illustrations, and a very tired...

La Citta

Friends have been telling me what a marvellous dialogue Hello Every Sunday is, and I agree. If it wasn’t for this I would not have tackled the landscape of Matera, I would have thought it far too difficult and avoided it. It has been challenging drawing these...

Week 8, Flamboyant

It’s that time of the year in Quebec where it gets dark at around 16h and to top it off, the sun has been hiding these past weeks, hence the need of color. I seldom use red, even less pink, but I quite like the flamboyant effect it has on this fearless hen....

The Challenge of Textures

My challenge over the last two weeks has been to get the textures of Matera into my sketchbooks. After countless attempts with various media on different kinds of paper, I went back to familiar dry media of pastel on Canson paper which turned out the best of all my...

Week 7 – Remembering

My uncle was a man who loved nature. He spent a lot of time in the forests of his native Abitibi, a Northen region that he cherished. He quietly passed away this Friday, after an long illness. I thought about him all week while drawing this, as he was in palliative...