Art on Walls

Still too busy writing to draw stuff. Still like putting new stuff on the blog. I have sort of a break this weekend, so there might be a few drawings.

In the meantime, maybe people would like to look at one of my walls. I think you can click on the photo and look at the "original" size to get a better look.

I throw stuff into frames and stick it up. Other things are items I think are cool. One kind of gets used to looking at things on the wall, and they are comfortable. So, I don't change them a lot.

Top left is a watercolour cartoon I did. Next to that, a kind of Cezanne-like treatment of my kitchen table, with dear, departed Magellan the black cat. The crummy paper has yellowed now, and the putty I used to stick it up has soaked in two spots of oil. Like an even older picture in the kitchen I might post some time, this has become an object lesson in what happens to cheap materials over time: let's say, 15 years, or so.

Below that is a watercolour I did of the old Russell's book store on Saint-Ambroise. Now torn down for the Montreal Convention centre. The guy in front looks a little like Harvey Kurtzman, but what he'd be doing in front of a Montreal bookstore is beyond me. Before the new building went up, this was a nice, grey New-Yorkish part of Montreal Harvey Kurtzman might have liked. Next door to Russell's was a groovy art/performance space I've forgotten the name of.

The poster kind of explains itself. Renaissance/Disney kitsch. The little panel on the lower right is by Luis Neves, a Latin alternative comic phenom, who maybe doesn't work hard enough, and also gives away his original art. It's a beautiful little scene, however, and one of his gifts.

(Translation of the text, thanks to a friend of mine - the French was beyond me this time -

"When you ain't got a damn penny, when you feel worse than s**t and nothing goes right, of course there's love...")


I buy old frames for cheap at garage sales. Flea markets are a little more difficult, because they want you to pay for the usually awful item that comes in the frame. I'm more into the frame and the glass, but I save interesting pictures for my friend Billy Mavreas, who runs an adventurous antique store.