Pop goes the easel!
My watercolour painting career? It's been a minute. (Five years of minutes to be exact.) But with the time I've had over the past year, I started it back up. I mainly [Read more]
Artists
Weathered and worn
When painting with watercolour, my biggest challenge is never the detail, it's those simple washes! I can't quite get 'em right -- always going a few brush strokes too far. [Read more]
A natural beauty
While in Montreal, le Chuck and I spent an afternoon walking through the Botanical Garden and looking up, way way up, at the larger-than-life masterpieces of Mosaïcultures [Read more]
Art to fill the soul
This spring, I had the privilege to tour the new 100 Masters: Only in Canada exhibit at the WAG before any of the public. And what an exhibit it is! I've seen many collections [Read more]
Spinning our wheels in the Interlake
This week, my coworker and I got drenched in art as we drove through a downpour to attend the "Mug Shot" media event put on by the wonderful and welcoming artists that [Read more]
Extreme doodling
Gorgeous pen and ink illustrations by Tokyo artist Sagaki Keita. Found here. You have to check out the rest of these images. Ah-mazing!
Vincent
Just received an email from my friend Brenda who is currently visiting Paris. She was telling me about all the art she is seeing and how fantastic everything is. She also [Read more]
A nice place for a chat
I hope to find a place like this when I go to Europe.
Rodin
In the fall of 2006, my mom and I visited the Auguste Rodin exhibit at the WAG. Besides the “Thinker” and “The Kiss” I didn’t know much about his work. Rodin’s bronzes were [Read more]
Frida
Frida Kahlo is amazing. I didn’t used to think so. I would look at her paintings in art books and think “nice unibrow.” Her paintings didn’t interest me. They were colourful [Read more]
