Canadian Artist

ACAM

This is where you can find all of my projects in school as well as my sketches and animations whilst in the program. Obviously my posts here will be more frequent than most but I hope to balance the content on my website to some extent.

A New Chapter:

Over the past 4 years of my high school career, I have taken 4 media arts courses, 4 Visual Arts courses and 2 co-op courses teaching in my school’s Art department for a total of 10 courses over 4 years. That’s ⅓ of the number of classes required to graduate and I feel like I’ve […]

Blockism Still-Life

This acrylic painting is meant to mimic the colours and strokes often found in the pre-cubist art style of artists like Cezanne. I learned about this painting technique in one of my art classes while enrolled in the ACAM program at my high school. This painting was completed as part of a school project and […]

Impressionism Still-Life

This acrylic painting is meant to mimic the colours and strokes often found in the impressionistic art of artists like Monet and Degas from the 19th century. I learned about these techniques of capturing colour in one of my art classes while enrolled in the ACAM program at my high school. I found learning about […]

Acrylic Painting assignment

1. Which 3 painting styles did you complete? · For my acrylic painting still life project, I painted using the styles of realism, impressionism and pre-cubist. I chose these styles because I wanted to do something I know I would enjoy and that was similar to my own painting style […]

2 point and 3 point perspective

Zine Reflection

What are 3 things that you learned about Zines during this assignment? I learned what zines are, that they’re used to express a view, tell a story or provide information and facts and that they originated around the 1920s but really started getting popular in the 60s and 70s with punk rock and heavy metal […]

3 random words – Sketchbook Assignment

For this assignment, we were asked to go to a random word generator and create a drawing using the words it gave us. By coincidence, I got the words nanny, umbrella and cloud, so the only acceptable option for the inspiration of my piece was the wonderful Mary Poppins. I created this composition […]

Claymation Project

Throughout the end of this semester, some classmates and I worked together to create a stop-motion animation using clay. We learned how to use the program “Lightworks” and we learned how to work as a team to get everything done. We had to work with different lighting and backgrounds and characters and we had to […]

Fire

Today, I had to design a piece of text, “Fire” and surround the word with it’s element. This taught me how to better utilize layers, grouping and clipping masks to get the result I wanted. Here is what I came up with: Aujourd’hui, je devais concevoir un morceau de texte, “Feu” et entourer le mot […]

Animation reflection / Réflexion d’animation

This year I worked on many different types of animation. Some examples are; flash animations, blender animations and claymation. Flash animations: when I animated in flash I learned a lot about the importance of proportions and how to make a drawing move as it was alive. I learned how to use “Keyframes” and how to […]