I was watching a video by Liron Yanconsky where he says that if you are missing something from your art, it is this sense of freedom, and the only way to obtain that is to allow the art to flow through you, rather than trying to force it.

The best times that I find I get into art is where I am completely present and it becomes a natural state. I get a sense of what colours to add where and I don’t exactly have a reason for it but it especially becomes interesting when it still works out. I’ll see if I can keep channeling that creativity.

Today marks the last lesson for my OCAD class. I think it was worth it. I felt that the second last class which was on abstract techniques was one of the most freeing and interesting ones, because the assignment was to play with the techniques. In it, I felt that testing things out (like using rubbing alcohol to make drops, scratching techniques and cutting out masking tape) pulled me out of my usual methods and it was really fun. I also very much enjoyed seeing other people’s art work and hearing what comments they had on mine.

I have actually signed up for more classes. One again with OCAD but this time on an advanced drawing class, and another with the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) for watercolour figures. My work has not really included many figures in it so I am guessing it will push me out of my comfort zone .

On Wednesday, there are free nights at the AGO, so I went to visit to see their watercolour paintings. I asked many of the staff and volunteers and was somewhat put off that there were very few. In fact, the ones that I saw were actually the very first section that I went to – almost like I was already drawn to the place by an imaginary arrow.

I went on a volunteer art tour hoping that our guide might point us out one. That said, I was at least introduced to an interesting work by Claude Monet.

While I was never a real fan of Monet, I liked how the story behind this piece was that he was so poor that to stay at an inn, he painted a door of an armoire to pay. This happened to then make an interesting shape for a painting.