Gavan P.L. Watson
Week 8: Chalk pastel still life, originally uploaded by Gavatron.
This week was another still life and took all evening (so three hours) to complete. I’m pleased with how it turned out.
I did notice how everything is stretched out (even though we did [...]
This week was time to do some more life-drawing. A new model and new way of drawing: out is the gesture approach and in is creating depth and form through shading. This meant that we were drawing with the side of the conte, which was a challenge and meant that I wasn’t as precise with [...]
Mulberry leaves, originally uploaded by Gavatron.
A view of green leaves and snow along Philosopher’s Walk.
Today, at approximately 12:00 pm EST I successfully defended my last comprehensive (which is titled Confluences in the streams of birding, technology and animal studies and which I’ll need to upload & add to my academic writings). This is BIG news for a couple of reasons. The first is that I’ve struggled through the [...]
Featured!, originally uploaded by Gavatron.
Flickr has just launched its Places feature (which is very cool), and so I decided to have a poke around. Looking up the Yukon Territory, much to my surprise, up pops me as one of the “Featured Photographers.” Too Cool.
If [...]
An unfortunate typo has us making beer to the letter of the recipe.
I just installed a plugin1 that allows me to create footnotes in posts. Just testing the thing out here.
The plugin is WP-Footnotes [↩]
OK, so I’ve got a number of pieces from this week. Let me just start by saying that I loved this week’s work. Loved it. As you can tell, we had a model and we were doing life drawing.
It was a real additive class. Starting with the gesture pieces (the [...]
Week #5, originally uploaded by Gavatron.
This week was all about texture.
The bottom piece of work was closest to what we were supposed to be doing, but its the one that I like the least.
The top piece is actually where I was drying my brush before [...]
About me
I am an education researcher and practitioner, with a focus on higher education and the environment. I consider myself, above all, a naturalist. I'm the pack-mate of two border terriers. I live within the Speed River Watershed in Guelph, Ontario. I enjoy photography. I lead nature tours across North America. I teach courses on Natural History. I likely spend too much time on the Internet.
Oh, and the opinions expressed here are wholly my own.
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Shared New colour.
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Shared Counter's in!.
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Shared Finished floor.
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Shared Slate floor—entry.
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Shared Super sledding.
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