Art Cards
February 16, 2025
I’ve loved working with ink since I was a teenager, when I was introduced to “playing” with ink on paper by my art teachers. One session they encourage us to move India ink around on the page, to add water, to continue working with it when it was partially dry, shake sale on the wet paper – all with a view to see how it behaved in all circumstances.
Fast-forward to 2018, and I’d started painting again. I especially loved how thinning India ink out, I could pile up layer upon layer of grey veils until they compounded into black. It doesn’t work with watercolours, just India ink. For some reason the India ink dried water-proof where watercolour paint didn’t. This got me wondering what the composition of ink was as opposed to watercolour, and my subsequent research took me down a rabbit hole I’ve yet to emerge from.
Along the way, I found Jason Logan’s book, “Make Ink”, which really got the ball rolling for me. My first few attempts that year weren’t that successful in terms of the ink I wanted, but boy did I ever have fund experimenting with it.
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while.
Do not try. Do.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it is not too late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly to work on your creativity.
The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
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I gratefully acknowledge that the place I work is situated on the unceded lands of the lək̓ʷəŋən People, known today as the Esquimalt and Songhees Nations, who have hunted and gathered here for thousands of years, and whose relationship to the land continues to this day.