Doing It Daily – February 15 – 22
This week’s crop of daily sketches were a challenge to complete, because I’m on a deadline for another big drawing project (more on this in later posts). So once again, […]
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Art We Wonderful by Marion Younan
My First (Finished) Negative Painting
Last year, I attempted a negative painting (painting the negative space around subjects in layers) but abandoned it because it hurt my brain, being so against my usual way of painting. And […]
Doing It Daily – February 8 -14
Doing my daily sketches last week took me in interesting directions – the subjects were so varied. Turns out that I did have to plan a few sketches in advance […]
Doing It Daily – February 1 – 7
A month into my daily drawing and I’m hitting a bit of a wall – the “Wall” being that sometimes the prompt subjects don’t motivate me to draw. And especially […]
Doing It Daily – January 24 – 31
Month #1 of my 365-daily sketching goal achieved! Here are the “publishable” drawings from the last 8 days of January prompts: A quiet moment at home – I was dealing […]
Back to Watercolour Class
I’m back to watercolour class for another round of learning. To warm us up, we were given some veggies to pose for a still-life. There was lots of learning in […]
Doing It Daily – January 17 – 23
Still on track for drawing daily! My subjects for last week were: Draw my favourite singer Draw a building you like Draw a selfie Draw a glass of wine Draw […]
Joined Urban Sketchers
Finally after a number of months trying to work out scheduling, I joined the Toronto Urban Sketchers group this past December, and have really enjoyed the meet ups we’ve had! So […]
Doing It Daily – January 10 – 16
Last week’s daily drawings were a little more involved, because it doesn’t take much for me to go to “Detail Town”. January 12 – Favourite Breakfast Spot: January 14 – Something […]
The Road Ahead
One of our contributors, Deb Milimaka-Miles just celebrated her birthday and has also just embarked on a new exploration of oil painting (hopefully we’ll see her new work posted here […]
Doing It Daily – January 2 – 9
I’m still managing to keep my commitment to draw every day (in addition to any course assignments), using my list of drawing prompts. I’ve also committed to not doing a […]
Preparation or Just Going For It
In Liz Steel’s wonderful “Sketching Now” course, we are exploring the approaches of drawing “tightly” and “loosely”. When doing a tighter drawing, slowing down is essential, and doing some foundational […]
Art We Wonderful by Marion Younan 