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I made 8×10 prints of a few of the Tree Dancer drawings on a light card stock. And then I coloured them in with pencil crayons and touched them up with pencil & fine line pen. Here are some original drawings, and their colourized do-over. I really enjoy doing the colour work, and people tell me they see details that escaped them previously.

Harrison Springs is a small town an hour and a half inland from Vancouver. I carried my sketchbook around and was able to get some drawings done that I felt good about.

Light defines things which are beyond our hands reach. This definition has an immediacy it is difficult to appreciate without considering the various layers and levels which are interposed between us.

Here are a few trees that have gotten into my sketch book while I am waiting in a car.

http://mark-johnson.artistwebsites.com/index.html I am trying this site that does on-demand printing of uploaded artwork. They will print at assorted sizes, put a frame on the work if you wish, or even produce art cards to order. I will upload more work as time goes by. Check it out.

Using the female form as a template Tree Dancers are my artistic vision of how we interact with the world around us They bathe in light, pull water up from the earth, exhale purity, and dance. I’m not sure people credit the powerful energy that a tree represents. Trees have this incredible ability to pull [...]

AWOL: I have 3 pieces hanging at AWOL Gallery’s 8th Annual Square Foot show. The number of pieces the gallery has put on display means that the show is now held at 2 different locations -  the original AWOL Gallery at 76/78 Ossington, and a large space at 100A Ossington on the 2nd floor. The [...]

Sessile are the faces I create for the special places this earth has, it’s places of power and significance where we can connect with the deeper parts of ourselves. There are focal points of energy, of creation, of pure expression. The fountainheads of possibility. That is what I explore with Sessile. They are closely connected [...]

Mark Johnson is a visual artist living in Toronto, Canada who wants to share his explorations of Wonder and Whimsy. His work follows the paths that branch from both thoughtful consideration of ideas and spontaneous visions. Using a unique weaving together of form, line and colour he expresses what he sees on those paths with [...]