Speaking at "Art for All Canada"

Today I am inaugurating a new version of my blog. After an embarrassing hiatus of 4 years (I've been busy flying across Canada teaching SketchUp) I am picking it up again with a new bent. I will personally be focusing on my Fine Art work henceforth, but I would like to be able to share my secret weapon with the Fine Arts community.  I have been using SketchUp for everything from planning the seating arrangement at a party, to reorganizing my furniture and foremost, to generate thumbnails for my planned art work.

In this spirit, I offered my services to, and I am thrilled to have been invited by, +Sheila Mitchell to speak at the 2103 Art For All Canada conference at 10AM Sunday, March 3.  My topic is  "Eliminate the Grunt Work in Planning Your Art: Use SketchUp™.

In the days following the conference, I intend to publish here, the material I am covering there.  Ideally I will be covering one helpful hint per day.  I am inviting all Fine Artists to add their two cents.  If anyone would like to share some great way they have found for using SketchUp in preparing their art work, I would love to hear of it and include it on this blog.  I especially invite my friend +Jim Leggit of Drawing Shortcuts  and the many fine renderers, such as+Daniel Tal of  SketchUp Artists to participate.

However, all matters regarding Fine Art are fair game, despite the title, and I am likely to go off on tangents that are of interest to me.

I should add, that, for the purposes of gaining self-discipline, I just recently completed an 8 month Art Fundamentals program at Seneca@York.  It was a mind-blowing, shocking amount of work and I cheated profusely by making ample use of SketchUp.  I am including below the very first assignment in my very first class:  Colour Theory.  This was to use my  "Personal Colour" preferences and is executed in Acryla Gouache. The thumbnails are from SketchUp, the finished piece is 14" x 11".

SketchUp Thumbnails: Personal Colour

Personal Color Acryla Gouache