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Kathryn’s First Pattern
My relationship is competitive one. We love each other very much, we love hanging out together, we’re very sweet and kind to each other but when it comes to gift giving, It’s ON. I’ve always thought of myself as a decent gift giver, or at least one who tries her best. I had no idea how small […]
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Twenty Minutes with Nature
I started a new project at the end of April. I was going to say “somewhere around the end of April” which would be stupid because this project is a daily, dated, drawing project. I started a new project on exactly April 25th which has become sort of my daily meditation. Basically I was getting […]
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Holding On at Windrush Gallery
This piece was done for a very specific show. My Twitter friend (and now we’ve met in real life, friend) Cathy opened up a gallery at the end of May called Windrush Gallery in Metchosin. For her opening she invited artists of all skill levels to submit pieces around the theme of Mental Health. Partial […]
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Colour, colour, colour
These pieces really demonstrate my push to try using more colour and more graphical elements in my birds. They were the last few gouache paintings before I started transitioning into acrylics for my experiments.
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More bird experiements and underpainting
I’ve got a problem where my “style” rarely sticks. I’m always experimenting and rarely stay in the moment long enough before I move onto the next thing. Starting to think I need to hold myself to a series soon. Anyway I started experimenting here with gouache and the (typically) oil method “en grisaille” which is […]
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Sometimes I draw people
I started a new sketchbook recently and started playing with brush pens again. You know, now that my sketchbook paper can handle it. Occasionally I go through people fazes. I used to almost always do people and human beings but I feel into animals and birds pretty hard a couple years ago so now it’s […]
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I’m back…bearing gifts!
Oh hey there…blog. You exist. You’ve existed for a few months now without me updating you. Let’s move on shall we, we’re old friends. Here, have some art in your face! So it’s been awhile since the post-draught of Winter Holidays but I’m back and can show you all sorts of stuff now! Obnoxious amounts […]
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Christmas Kitty
Merry Christmas! I don’t have any Christmas art because I’ve been busy doing Christmas art. Ha. Anyway here’s a Christmas present I painted today that I can share. Christmas kitty painting for some lovely people who just adopted a new kitten! I historically BLOW at cats so pretty pleased it turned out. I was terrified.
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All my art is surprises
Problem with the holidays is while I’m producing steadily, I can’t show any of it off because they are gifts. That’s right, I’m THAT guy. The guy who makes gifts. Thought I should post something though so here are some recent field sketches and a painting I started sketching in October that I’m desperate to […]
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