More Wanderings

More renovations on the weekend, so I'm kicked out of my apartment, and had to wander around. Got a sunburn, but also did a lot of drawings. First here are my architectural studies, which actually contain the right number of windows and all. At least they try to. They're still pretty impressionistic, which I like, anyhow.

Above is the Canadian Centre for Architecture, which I sketched from across the street. Cars have become the inevitable "staffage" if you're drawing a building. The thing that looks like a yellow beach ball with legs, is actually a woman with an umbrella who was aiming it my way to avoid the wind. They predicted lots of rain for today, but we avoided that. Got wind instead, and the sun, hence my sunburn.




Hope you can tell, if you care, this is the Redpath Museum on the McGill University Campus, one of the stops on my wanderings today. I'm trying to be less straight lines and rules of perspective, and capture more of the feeling of a building, make it a character, like the people I draw.



This is something I draw yesterday, and coloured today. Some dogs, and also Herbert Hunke from this book I was reading about the history of the Beats (for a future project: maybe more about that later!)



Bad teeth guy was present, at this coffee shop I was sitting outside of. The cat is imaginary. The Dachshund was real, being walked past this cute coffee shop I was sitting outside of, earlier this Sunday morning.



More dogs, as I was sitting in Mont Royal park, late in the afternoon, my last stop. No, I wasn't drunk, I was trying to be more impressionistic, capturing this hyper-active, very cute little chihuahua, and a larger, more staid samoyed.