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It’s Go Time
I’m writing this 1 day and 19 hours ahead of the Queen West Art Crawl, which is my first public art exhibit. It’s 4:29 AM. It’s probably the adrenaline kicking in, fueled by excitement. My mind races ahead of me, trying to plan out every foreseeable problem that could arise. Naturally, this is not going…
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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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Drawing figures
At my last OCAD class, we had a clothed live model. The instructor walked around as we made our drawings to make some suggestions. During my previous sessions, there would be instructions to make quick 10 second poses or 1-3 minute drawings and you could really only get down the very basics of the person.…
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Learning Illustration
I’m now taking my second OCAD class which in this case is on drawing at an advanced level. I thought the first class was interesting. I enjoyed working at a massive easel which was vertical as opposed to the usual way I have which is on a horizontal plane. I realized at the beginning I…
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Finding Freedom in Art
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…
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The Business of Art
I have also been reading the book called Artpreneur by Miriam Shulman and it’s quite good. It argues that social media marketing is subject to the whims of the social media platform you are using, and a better way is to use an email newsletter. I am thinking about what kind of content I should…
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Paint characteristics
During the second class at OCAD, I learned of a few more paint qualities. Certain paint colours have characteristics associated with them. Ultramarine blue is granulated so it has a speckled quality unlike phthalo blue, which has a smooth quality. Ultramarine allows for lifting whereas phthalo blue is more of a staining colour. Certain colours…
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Using paints
My class last week had gone over the very basics of painting with watercolours and materials. I felt I learned a few things though hope the next classes will be more advanced. For instance, the teacher recommended that we do not put the tube paints into slots and let them dry out but rather to…
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Today’s the day
I am going to attend my first of a 5 session course of a watercolour studio at OCAD University. As I haven’t done a watercolour course before, and frankly haven’t taken much formal teaching of art, I am excited to see what it will be like. Whenever I saw Janet Kim on Kim’s Convenience going…
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Pop culture and social media
It seems to me that my reels on Facebook and Instagram have started taking off. Iām not sure whether this is because they have a pop culture bent to them. For the first one with Castlevania, I had posted it without any expectation that it would be well received and then I started noticing my…
