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Art can be enjoyed by all but should be loved by the artist

Becoming a famous artist can be a very difficult task. There are many great artists that were not recognized until long after they had died. Their work will live on forever as masterpieces but they were never honored as being known as great artists while they were alive. Now there are so many different forms of artistic expression that it can be very difficult to be noticed unless you’re work is extreme.

I love doing art for myself. I feel More

Classic Danby

Ken Danby was a child when he thought I want to be an artist, so that’s what I’m going to be (That’s my idea of what he might have said, by the way; look at Ken’s awesome paintings and you’ll see where my enthusiasm comes from.) Born in 1940, the pride of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, his parents – Edison and Gertrude – wanted him to succeed just as much as he did, and supported him all the way.

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The Beauty of The Brotherhood.

I have been to quite a few different exhibitions over the years and I have seen the work of many different artists. There have been a number of memorable pictures for me; for a number of different reasons.

When I saw ‘Madonna on the Rocks’ by Leonardo da Vinci I was pretty much blown away. I can remember being bitterly disappointed as I stood in front of my first Dali picture (‘God, it’s so small in real life!’). And I More

Sorry, But This Is How It Really Is

At college, my art teacher told me “don’t be an artist, it’s really hard”. I didn’t listen to her of course. Away I went in to the big wide world to become an artist. And it was big, and it was very, very wide…

What did I discover? That she was irritatingly right, of course. How right? Well, if anything she had been kind to me. Being an artist, as I quickly found out, was nothing to do with art. More

Correct Technique

It may sound like a ludicrous joke, but the reason why some people never learn to draw properly is because they have no idea how to correctly hold a pencil. I know this to be the case because I have taught numerous private art lessons and seen this happen time and time again. There is nothing on earth quite like the expression on a fifty-six year-old woman’s face when you tell her that she can’t hold her pencil properly. If More

Muse in Edmonton on March 29th

I love Muse. Ever since hearing the album, Origin of Symmetry in early 2002 I was hooked. Musically their abilities are up their with the best of them and Matt Bellamy (lead vocals and guitar) has an amazing gift for writing music. Whilst his singing is hardly brilliant, it is unique and compliments the music well.

As they have progressed as a band, so has their music. Every album sounds different and they always push themselves to try new things More

Canadian Awesome: Cube

Time after time the fusing of elements such as futurism, sci-fi and film turn out to be less a blessing and more of a curse—with so many good science fiction films produced by the early 90s it was hard to imagine anything new breaking any ground. Then along came Cube (1997, directed by Canadian Vincenzo Natali); a psychological masterpiece, it went on to spawn a number of not half bad sequels and was the start of a sci-fi revolution that More

Charcoal Fun

Charcoal has always been one of my favourite mediums, but for some reason it doesn’t get as much attention as the other ways to create a fine piece; you can blend it, create super dynamic shapes with the swipe of one hand, and cover vast amounts of paper extremely quickly. But it can also be a scary thing to use, simply because once it’s on paper, that’s it.

Here are a few pointers if you’re new to using charcoal:

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Canadian Cool: Eastern Promises

Viggo Mortensen and Naomi Watts: directed by Canadian master David Cronenberg–what more do you want from a movie?

Dark, sinister and refreshingly different from most modern gangster stories, Eastern Promises

In some ways, Eastern Promises

As with all of Cronenberg’s films, Easternthe

By the way, I have finally applied for those Secondary school jobs