The Sunday Building Project

Welcome to the inaugural episode of The Sunday Building Project! Every Sunday, I will post my favourite drawing of the past week. If you care to keep more up-to-date, a link to the Project’s blog is provided thorough the image. I draw a building every day, and simultaneously offer to do drawings and paintings on commission. I’ve been invited to share on this blog the occasional piece.

This is the project –

Once a day, I take a point of meandering in the city until I find an attractive seating opportunity that faces a home in Montreal. My seats vary from park benches, garbage cans, chairs discarded in back alleys, and even street curbs. Then I spend about an hour drawing the building at which I can stare at freely for about an hour. I get strange, curious, amused, suspicious looks, and overhear people laughing on their ways to lunch, grumbles over parking tickets, see people carrying groceries, dragging children, talking about school, smoking, wondering.

I don’t know what I’ll do when winter comes, because whatever alternative to bearing an hour of stagnancy in the cold I seek will inevitably alter the course of this project, so I will try my best to stay true – if anyone knows of a cheap, light-weight stool I can easily huck around the city, give me a heads up. A warm bum is the first step to success.

For now, let a weekly favourite radiate towards your eyeballs in the (somewhat tardy, ) first episode of The Sunday Building Project! I thought I’d start with something ‘pretty typically Montreal’ (although, the great thing about this city is that statement’s contestability).