bryan d 🇨🇦 artist

Taking a social media break to prepare for a meditation retreat. Will be back in a couple of weeks. Be good to each other while I'm gone!

A sketchbook is open, showing a 2-page spread. On the right are a trash can and a graffitied electrical box. On the other side of the street is a tree in a giant mural on the side of a house in front of which are some people walking and an abandoned car full of plants. Skies are cloudy, it's about to rain. May you all be well.

@usktoronto.bsky.social meetup yesterday in Kensington Market, #Toronto. This view is from the patio at Wanda's Pie In The Sky. #urbansketching #sketchbook #sketch #inkandwash #inkandwatercolour #watercolor #artyear #pleinair #tradart

Amazing 👏

Love this!

A bumblebee alights on an allium flower.There are some brown-eyed susans off to the right and sunny skies above. These moments are fleeting.

Bumble bee on Allium, from my own reference photo. #sketchbook #inkandwash #inkandwatercolour #watercolor #nature #artyear #flowers #painting #tradart #sketching #Garden #eastcoastkin

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Honestly, I feel unworthy!

A sketchbook is open showing two small sketches. The top, a bough of Eastern Red Cedar. The bottom a cluster of golden waxy cap mushrooms. May their simple beauty give you pause and a moment to ground.

My wife bought me a journal of lovely handmade rag paper from Atelier Ecluse in #Montreal. I'm thinking to use it for studies based on my own found or photographed references. Pg 1. #sketchbook #sketching #inkandwash #inkandwatercolour #watercolour #fungifriends #artyear #tradart #natureart #nature

A sketchbook is open to a vertical 2-page spread. In the foreground, some plants, trees, and a victorian streetlight. In the middle distance, the glass domes of Allan Gardens. In the background, a high rise and way back, the top of the CN Tower. May your skies be blue!

Allan Gardens, #Toronto. What a lovely place to #sketch, plenty of shade to escape the sun. #urbansketching #inkandwash #inkandwatercolour #watercolor #pleinair #tradart #sketchbook #artyear

A blue and red sketch of St. Jerome in robes that are not even close to historically accurate. Art galleries are like temples for those of all faiths or, none at all.

Popped by @agotoronto.bsky.social #Toronto today and did this #sketch of a statue of St. Jerome. Pencil crayon, which I never, ever, use. #sketching #drawing #pencilcrayon #coloredpencil #sketchbook #artyear #art

A woman walks her dog past bleachers. There are trees and a high rise building in front of a setting sun. May you not be separated from the good fortune you have attained.

Sunset in Withrow Park, #Toronto #urbansketching #inkandwash #inkandwatercolour #watercolor #painting #pleinair #sketchbook #artyear #sketching

Bravo 👏

A watercolour landscape. Water fills the lower third. A ahorelibe emerges from the right with some high-rise buildings peeking above the trees. Dark clouds picking up some yellow from the sun emerge from the left along the lake's edge. May all beings be free.

Ashbridges Bay #Toronto, as seen from Leslie Spit. Those clouds didn't give a single drop of rain. #Pleinair #watercolour (with Lake #Ontario water) on Winsor and Newton cold press. #landscape #scape #watercolor #painting #tradart #art

I thought Jerry was dead 🫨 Nice sketches, captures the mood and flavour 🍊

Under blue skies with.puffy clouds a DJ in a concrete tower plats for a Dancing crowd in coloured light filtered through suspended flags. Dance like the people around you are too 🕺💃

Accidentally happened on a #rave this afternoon. Yes, this kind of thing does happen in #Toronto Portlands. Phantom Unity, which is apparently women-led, at Leslie Lookout park. #urbansketching #inkandwatercolour #watercolor #pleinair #stunday #artyear #dance #edm #sketching

Love it!

A statue of St. BARTHOLOMEW depicted weilding a knife with the edge of the blade towards himself in a green robe. Watercolour and graphite on Arches cold press.

Tomorrow's St.Bartholomew's day. His story is a gruesome and fascinating one. I'm far from an expert, but that he is often depicted with a knife edge towards himself (like this statue @st_barts_to) seems fitting. #Watercolour and graphite on Arches cold press. #painting #saints #tradart #artyear

A sensitive rendering 👏

Fun sketch. But.. how did you get a photo of my cluttered workstation? 😆

Love this! Also, nice sketch 🙂

#Stars sing "set yourself on fire."

#7syllablesentence

Do the #stars know we exist?

#7syllablesentence

Two ink and watercolour sketches. The 1st a view of some condos with the Gardiner expwy in forground and Toronto Island in back. 2nd a view up Bay St to old city hall. May the wind be at tour back today!

Some #urbansketching from the office in #Toronto yesterday. 1st a view of some condos with the Gardiner expressway. 2nd done #pleinair - a view up Bay St to old city hall. #sketchbook #inkandwatercolour #sketching #watercolor #painting #artyear #scape #urbanscape

A sketchbook is held up in front of the scene depicted. Yellow light shines almost horizontally on rocks in the lake and is reflected on the water and held by some trees. May all beings be free of anxiety.

Sunset on the rocks, Lac Du Moulin #Gatineau #Québec #sketchbook #urbansketching #inkandwatercolour #watercolor #painting #pleinair #artyear #sketching #scape #landscape #stunday

I can see it, full Looney Tunes style 😆

A set of rapids courses between moss covered rocks and boulders. Trees line the river banks and cast shadows into the ravine. Its said that one can learn the dhamma through nature alone. May the trees, rocks and water whisper universal truths in your ears.

Stopped by these small rapids while hiking this morning in #Québec A mink popped its head out just as I was leaving - too late to be included in the sketch. #peinair #urbansketching #inkandwatercolour #watercolor #painting #tradarts #artyear #stunday #eastcoastkin #sketchbook #scape #landscape

A sketchbook is held up in front of the scene depicted. The sun sets behind an island and a hill. The gentle light is reflected on water in the foreground. May all beings be free.

#sketching some sunset action from the beach in Lac Ste Marie #Québec #urbansketching #landscape #scape #stunday #inkandwash #inkandwatercolour #watercolour #tradarts #artyear

This is fun, love the purple ink!

Love a Bakewell tart!

The colours! So vibrant.