pen and watercolor – Art We Wonderful by Marion Younan

The Parisian Affliction of Floral Indecision

In 2008, a friend and I went to France where I took a zillion photos. Like most of my travel photos pre-ArtWeWonderful days, they sat on my computer gathering virtual […]

Commissions/Sketchy Memories

Rome Will Be Rome!

I love making Sketchy Memory drawings for people I know and travel with. This latest one (and it’s my largest to date) is for my friend, Lisa, who came over […]

Travel-Inspired Art

Welcome or Beware!

I’m always fascinated with unique architectural features, and on my trip to Italy, I saw all kinds of funky things on buildings. These two face carvings on the big front door […]

Travel-Inspired Art

New Friends From My Travels – Part Two

Into my travel journal went more drawings of two more artists I met at the art course in Tuscany. The first drawing is of Sue in Panicale, Umbria – a gorgeous […]

Travel-Inspired Art

New Friends From My Travels – Part One

My Italy watercolour journal came home from the trip with blank pages, and has been calling to me from its position on the kitchen counter – “fill me, fill me”! […]

My Art

Pazzo in Pizzo

After a long train ride to Calabria and a short taxi ride, I arrived in the small coastal town of Pizzo. The apartment rental was fantastic, with amazing views and […]

My Art

Doing It Daily – February 22 – 28

Almost all my daily sketches from this week were started very late at night, after a long day of drawing for another large project. And most of them are either […]

My Art

3-Point Watercolour

In our watercolour class, we were challenged to paint a subject where there were 3 obvious points of perspective – 2 sides and the third being either from below or […]

Inspiration

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 […]

My Art

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 […]

My Art

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 […]

My Art

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 […]

My Art

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 […]