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bryan d 🇨🇦 artist

@bryyyan.bsky.social

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Urban sketching and other creative endeavours. 🇨🇦, into compassion, karate, dharma, hiking, skateboarding, vegetarian cooking, & travel. Everyone is welcome and safe in my timeline. No one is illegal on stolen land.

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bryan d 🇨🇦 artist @bryyyan.bsky.social · Sep 9

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!

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bryan d 🇨🇦 artist @bryyyan.bsky.social · Sep 8

@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

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.

bryan d 🇨🇦 artist @bryyyan.bsky.social · Sep 7

Amazing 👏

bryan d 🇨🇦 artist @bryyyan.bsky.social · Sep 7

Love this!

bryan d 🇨🇦 artist @bryyyan.bsky.social · Sep 5

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

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.

bryan d 🇨🇦 artist @bryyyan.bsky.social · Sep 4

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bryan d 🇨🇦 artist @bryyyan.bsky.social · Sep 4

Honestly, I feel unworthy!

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bryan d 🇨🇦 artist @bryyyan.bsky.social · Sep 4

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 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.

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bryan d 🇨🇦 artist @bryyyan.bsky.social · Sep 1

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 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!

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bryan d 🇨🇦 artist @bryyyan.bsky.social · Sep 1

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 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.

bryan d 🇨🇦 artist @bryyyan.bsky.social · Aug 28

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

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.

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bryan d 🇨🇦 artist @bryyyan.bsky.social · Aug 28

Bravo 👏

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bryan d 🇨🇦 artist @bryyyan.bsky.social · Aug 25

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

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.

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bryan d 🇨🇦 artist @bryyyan.bsky.social · Aug 25

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

bryan d 🇨🇦 artist @bryyyan.bsky.social · Aug 25

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

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 🕺💃

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bryan d 🇨🇦 artist @bryyyan.bsky.social · Aug 24

Love it!

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bryan d 🇨🇦 artist @bryyyan.bsky.social · Aug 23

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 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.

bryan d 🇨🇦 artist @bryyyan.bsky.social · Aug 22

A sensitive rendering 👏

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bryan d 🇨🇦 artist @bryyyan.bsky.social · Aug 21

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

bryan d 🇨🇦 artist @bryyyan.bsky.social · Aug 21

Love this! Also, nice sketch 🙂

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bryan d 🇨🇦 artist @bryyyan.bsky.social · Aug 20

#Stars sing "set yourself on fire."

#7syllablesentence

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bryan d 🇨🇦 artist @bryyyan.bsky.social · Aug 20

Do the #stars know we exist?

#7syllablesentence

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bryan d 🇨🇦 artist @bryyyan.bsky.social · Aug 20

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

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!

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bryan d 🇨🇦 artist @bryyyan.bsky.social · Aug 19

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

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.

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bryan d 🇨🇦 artist @bryyyan.bsky.social · Aug 18

I can see it, full Looney Tunes style 😆