Megan Donovan - BEING STUDIO

I describe my art with colours, ink, paper, paintbrush, watercolours, water painting and sometimes drawing with dots. I feel calm and good when I’m drawing and making art.

My Wonders of the World, pencil crayon on white paper

My Still Life, pencil crayon on white paper

Tree Hand Seedling, black marker and watercolour on beige-coloured paper

I use lines and patterns. I use water pencils. I describe myself with water drawings.

The deer-hide drum Megan made at the David Finkle workshop on creating a traditional hand drum using stick, deer hide, banding and hoop at the Summer Solstice Festival.

Megan using the drum that she made at storyteller, musician and drum maker David Finkle's workshop on creating a traditional hand drum using a stick, deer hide, banding and hoop at the Summer Solstice Festival.

I like music.

I like to make things with my hands like my drum that I made from deer skin.

I was in a band called Airband Champs in 1998 where I played the air guitar with friends that I knew since kindergarten and performed the Backstreet Boys.

Ice Fishing with My Dad, acrylic on canvas

I feel good when I use paints.

Tulip Fields, pencil crayon on paper

I like to use my sketchbook to draw shapes and birds.

I like to draw everything.

My Summer in 2016, pencil crayon on paper

My Turtle Flower Tulip and Turtles on the Rideau Canal, pencil crayon on paper

I like to draw rabbits, little mermaid and polka dots.

I like to take pictures of trees and draw them.

Elephant Sneeze, black marker, pencil, and pencil crayons on a light-beige coloured paper

Elephant Sneeze 2, tracing of Elephant Sneeze, coloured pencil crayons on mylar paper.

Moose, owls, and an elephant at a dinner party.

They order some salad as an appetizer. Inside the salad there’s orange and almonds. They order lemonade.

They’re all thinking of getting married and then one of the elephants sneezes. The elephants spray lemonade all over the owl.

The owl says I don’t want salad, I want meat and I’m tired. I’m tired of salad…

“Elephant Sneeze” are drawings that were made based on Megan’s participation in freelance journalist and artist John Loeppky’s writing workshops with BEING studio artists.

In these workshops, artists were invited to collaborate together to create a story. After creating the story with other artists, Megan decided to create artwork about the story.

Patterns, watercolour on paper

Patterns, pencil and crayons on paper

The colours I like to use in my art are black and red.

Colours and shapes inspire me.

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