Cottage Life
78 days ago · Sarah Lazarovic
Some lazy doodles from our cottage sojourn. Between the bug bites and my need to be either sleeping or swimming all the time, i barely had the energy to lazily lift pen to paper.
Unrelated: thumbing through yesterday's Times book review, I thought that Howard Hampton, rock critic, looked remarkably similar to Harold Hampton, NDP leader. What a goof! Not that it isn't easy to see how such a mistake would come to pass in these days of Googled images. It's a good cautionary tale for illustrators who have to use the web to suss out likenesses of their subjects.
Comment tags: cottage, howard hampton, sketches, trees
Wood Hands
135 days ago · Sarah Lazarovic
Here's a quick painterly sketch of The Mister that I did last week. Bought a bunch of boards, having never painted on wood before. Discovered I quite like it.
Comment tags: ben, board, moe panzer's, sketches
Shut Up, I'm Drinking
160 days ago · Sarah Lazarovic
This book launch was too full, so I sat at the Gladstone bar sketching the Gladstone bar.
Something alumni-esque was going down in Ithaca, so we had to stay at a hotel overlooking a dumpster on the outskirts of town. The hotel itself was fine.
Comment tags: gladstone, sketches
Sketches, Portraits, The MOMMA!
162 days ago · Sarah Lazarovic
House sketch, just for fun. Plus some new portraits up in the portraits section. I think I've just eclipsed 100.
Also, here are some neat things:
• this post by Kayce.
• loving this painter named Mamma!
• And speaking of Mammas, partner-in-crime Bob and I are launching a new web site and gallery, TheMomma.ca. Please check it out and submit too!
Comment tags: sketches, the momma
Happy Earth Day!
169 days ago · Sarah Lazarovic
Who is this weird monster? He's the tankless hot water heater we installed in our basement a few weeks ago. He's got more limbs than a centipede. Next week he'll be joined by some equally tubular new friends - solar panels.
Comment tags: earth day, sketches
Search Me
177 days ago · Sarah Lazarovic
Certainly it's a cliché to write posts about all the weird searches that have brought people to your site, but I love love love the fact that SarahL.com is the first thing someone arrives at when they Google 'hot gallerina.' I'm thinking whoever performed that highbrow/lowbrow search was perhaps trying to find this New York Times article of a few days earlier.
Comment tags: hot gallerina, new york times, sketches
Screenings, Gleanings
182 days ago · Sarah Lazarovic
Heyyo! If you are in Montreal, mayhaps you feel like checking out my film, Mondo Condo, screening on Thursday at the Cinémathèque Québécoise at 6:30 p.m.
Comment tags: mondo condo, montreal, sketches
1,2,3,4
183 days ago · Sarah Lazarovic
We finally tried Buddha Dog, Roncesvalles' miniature gourmet hot dog emporium. Review: mixed. Later in the day, I decided to use all leftover inks on post-it pieces.
Comment tags: hot dogs, post its, sketches
Resort Where?
196 days ago · Sarah Lazarovic
Doing some sketches for a series of brochures for some Florida resorts. Definitely vicarious living as I sketched boats and beach houses while a late March snow fell here. Spring, where are you?
• In other news, are these awesome or awful?
Comment tags: florida, portraits, sketches, work
Late Lunch Sketch Bunch
232 days ago · Sarah Lazarovic
Either my watch is all wrong or my friends are a late-arriving lot. No matter, it's afforded me a few secs to sketch before every lunch or dinner date of late.Here's Foxley:
And here's The Patrician Grill:
Comment tags: foxley, sketches, the patrician grill
Monday Link List
240 days ago · Sarah Lazarovic
• Ben was late, so I dashed off a quick sketch at Aroma. I recommend the Mediterranean sandwich. Eggplant and hard-boiled egg, who knew?
• CityNews came to visit and wrote about the portrait project! So did The Town Crier, but I can't find it online.
• I wrote about my year of not shopping in the Ottawa Citizen, so if you see a copy of Sunday's edition lazing about, read it and then mail it to me!
• My love for Patricia Marx only grows! Finally got her novel (now in paperback!), Him Her Him Again Then the End of Him or Something Like That involving Gratuitous Pronouns. So good, worth it just for the appendix. And we all know how useful an appendix is, so this is saying a lot.
Comment tags: aroma, ottawa citizen, patricia marx, sketches
(Opera) House of the Dead
245 days ago · Sarah Lazarovic
Comment tags: coc, house of the dead, sketches
Cinematic Sketches
246 days ago · Sarah Lazarovic
Finally getting started on my first Chalmers short film experiment. This one is a series of rapid fire drawings that tell a loose story.
Comment tags: chalmers, shorts, sketches
Puzzled
254 days ago · Sarah Lazarovic
• Latest AW in the gallery, I've been remiss in posting them.
'Frustrated and mimosa'd, they spent the afternoon labouring over a beautiful but trying puzzle.'
Comment [2] tags: another week, sketches
Primaries
256 days ago · Sarah Lazarovic
Doing some preliminary sketches for my graphic novel. Here's the Delano in South Beach.
Comment [1] tags: delano, sketches, south beach
Haircut
266 days ago · Sarah Lazarovic
Haircut Needed.
Sketching and Kvetching
268 days ago · Sarah Lazarovic
I hate ironing so much that even watching other people iron gets me steamed.
We saw Persepolis, which I recommend with reservations. If you've already read all the graphic novels it feels a bit repetitive. Still, it's beautiful, smart, and illuminating.
Comment tags: ironing, persepolis, sketches
Post-Beach Malaise
286 days ago · Sarah Lazarovic
It's nice to be home, but I already miss the sun. So I'll just think of the stuff I don't miss (Botoxed mums, Juicy Couture sweatsuits, manky holiday shoppers, beepers that signal you when your table is ready) and be glad to be back home in wintry Toronto. Here are some hasty sketches done while sitting on Deerfield Beach. It was hard to concentrate because we were taking turns reading aloud from Alex Ross' The Rest is Noise, which makes me want more Mahler in my life.
Happy New Year!
Comment tags: deerfield beach, sketches, the rest is noise
Life and White Beer
324 days ago · Sarah Lazarovic
Finally got to life drawing after months (years?) of not being able to go. Boy am I rusty. I love that you can buy a half pint at the Melody Bar and sip it while you sketch.
tags: gladstone hotel, life drawing, sketches
News
Lines of the Times
Very much enjoying my illustrating gig for The National. Have to convey rather heady ideas in tiny black and white spots. This one was about the demise of Lehman Bros.
We Shot a Short
Our NSI Drama Prize Short is shot. Our actors were fantastic, our crew equally so. Now begins the post production process. They loved owls in the 70s, didn't they?
My Film and TIFF's Films
Sorry for the hiatus. We've been shooting our feature all month. Here's a still from the top floor of Aunties & Uncles, where we shot a brunch scene.
Recent work
Other Projects
Portrait Project
I'll be doing one portrait a day until I can't do one portrait a day anymore. Not allowed to spend more than an hour on each one.
Long Live Irony
This is my catch-all site - art projects, journalism, weird experiments, all founded in the general belief that irony is not dead, regardless of what Graydon Carter says.
A joint blog where me and the Mr. post our thoughts on fashion and design, and I chronicle my year of not shopping. (I've cheated once.)
The Portrait Gallery
The government has been all kinds of annoying when it comes to creating a respectable National Portrait Gallery of Canada. So we built one in our garage this summer!
