See below posts by the artist on the creative process! Approximately one post will be made every week.
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The Queen West Art Crawl
I’m very excited to reveal where my booth will be for the Queen West Art Crawl! Rain or shine we are up! (hoping for good weather though) Come by to say hello! Looks like a great spot right by the beer garden, and I am at an intersection with two open sides. Trinity Bellwoods Park…
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Managing Time with Creating Art
As the days draw close to the art show, I’m doing some extra marketing to help promote it. A friend had reminded me of a recent Struthless video which discussed imagining if I failed at something in the future, and it was totally my fault, to analyze what happened. Given my last post was about…
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Uncertainty and the fear of failure
It’s now September 2. The art show is coming up in a few weeks and I have no idea how exactly it will go. Part of me is worried about how my expectations are too high. My imagination runs wild: I’ll be sitting there, alone, in the rain, stormy clouds threatening lightning. The pool noodles…
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How to successfully mix watercolour paints
I started out art mainly with the computer with digital mediums. Mixing colours is one of the things I found very challenging at first. You cannot simply click a button to get the colour, value and saturation you want. Colour mixing is an important skill. Mix the hue – generally Mixing hues (i.e. the colour,…
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Creativity and its source
By chance I came across the Malcolm Gladwell audiobook on Paul Simon (the Simon and Garfunkel Simon) called Miracle and Wonder some time ago with the Toronto Public Library’s ebook system. I hardly knew who he was beyond being able to recognize songs like Bridge Over Troubled Water. But I was impressed with Gladwell’s description…
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Painting figures
As I’m now into my latest AGO class (my third from this latest marathon of classes), I’ve been drawing a lot of figures lately. A few things I have learned so far along with tips for drawing, particularly with live models