When a painting leaves my studio, it isn’t just “finished.” It’s protected. Because oil paintings don’t simply dry, they cure slowly over time, sometimes for years. And how they’re treated during that process has a direct impact on how they will look decades from now. That’s where varnishing comes in. This is one of the few steps that can extend the final delivery timeline of your painting by a couple of weeks. Often, the work itself is complete, but it needs time to rest an

Live wedding painting in Vancouver - Surrey Northview Golf course If you’re searching for a Vancouver live wedding painter, you’ve likely seen a wide range of styles, approaches, and price points. But one thing couples often don’t realize right away is this: 👉 The number of weddings an artist takes on each month directly affects the quality of your final painting. And that’s something I take seriously. Why Booking Volume Matters in Live Wedding Painting Live wedding painting

Most of my work has always been larger. Larger canvases, more space, more time to build things up slowly. So working small, really small, is actually new for me. Lately I’ve been experimenting with these tiny 1.5 x 3 inch Altoid box mini landscape paintings, and I’ll be honest…they’re a bit of a challenge. There’s nowhere to hide. What I’m Noticing When you work at that scale, everything changes. You can’t rely on detail. You don’t have time to overwork things. You can’t ke

I’m very happy to share that I currently have five paintings on display as part of StrideFest in the Burnaby Heights community. A sincere thank you to the StrideFest organizers for the work that goes into creating events like this, bringing artists and the public together in a way that makes art more accessible and visible in everyday spaces. A warm Thank you as well to the local businesses who have opened their walls to display artwork throughout the festival. About the Seri

Recently, I attended human rights mediation with my former employer. I want to begin by acknowledging something important: I genuinely appreciate that they agreed to come to mediation, and I’m grateful to share that we did reach a settlement agreement. That matters. Closure matters. But what matters even more to me is what grew out of that experience. Because the truth is, what I went through fundamentally changed me. I was subjected to prolonged stress, repeated accusations

Creating captivating art is a journey filled with discovery and expression. When I first started painting, I quickly realized that the secret to making my work truly resonate wasn’t just in the brushstrokes or colours, but in how I arranged every element on the canvas. This is where art composition techniques come into play. They guide the eye, evoke emotions, and bring harmony to a piece. Today, I want to share some of the most effective techniques that have helped me craft

Two Years of Building an Art Career: What It Really Looked Like Behind the Scenes By Andrea Fryett Over the last two years, my art business has been quietly and sometimes chaotically transforming. If you’re a collector who has followed along (or even brought a piece home), you’ve been part of this story. And if you’re an artist reading this, I hope the path I’ve walked makes yours feel a little more possible. What follows is the honest version not just the pretty finished pai

If you are new to watercolour and struggling to master the basics, you have probably already discovered the biggest secret of the medium. It is not really about the paint. It is about the water. Once you understand how paper absorbs moisture, how pigment behaves, and how much water is “just right,” the medium suddenly becomes cooperative and expressive instead of unpredictable. This post is part of my Sea to Sky Beginner Landscape Classes taught live in Vancouver at Luminous

Where Culture Begins: Artist First or Institution First I did not expect to feel foreign in an arts community inside my own country. Quebec shaped me in a landscape where culture begins with people, not policy. I became an artist inside a system where you create the space first and the belonging follows. You build the doorway, and community steps through it because they feel something forming there. In Quebec, the artist is treated as the root from which culture grows. Instit

Art has always been about connection for me, between brush and canvas, light and colour, artist and viewer. Now I am ready to let that connection include myself more visibly too. So here I am. And I cannot wait to share this next chapter with you.

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