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Many people are familiar with architecture as a profession, which it is, but they probably don’t know what it fully is.

What is Architecture?

Architecture is the planning and designing of not just buildings but structures too, that will be built. Someone has done architecture in a way or another. The invention that me and other grade 9’s designed and built in grade 8 for STEM was a piece of architecture. The cell model you designed and built in grade 8 was a piece of architecture.

Architecture in Relation to Art

Architecture is art. More specifically, it’s visual art, which i described more in depth in my previous post. Visual art is art that’s hands on, like drawing or video editing, that is meant to be viewed visually but is NOT dance. The difference between the dance and visual arts is that dance is created physically by your body. Architecture is visual art because you’re creating a design on paper or digitally, like drawing, that will be built and viewed by people like poetry.

Architects

Architects are professional designers that specialize in building making and structure making. They know how to make things look visually pleasing or aesthetic, and how to make them stand out without being ugly. But how do you become an architect? You have to go to university or college that has an architecture program, and get a bachelors degree, which will take about 5 years of university. There’s actually a good amount of universities in Canada that you can study architecture in. Some of them being:

• University of Waterloo (approximately an hour from Pearson)
• University of Manitoba (in Winnipeg Manitoba)
• University of Toronto (St George Campus, approximately 45 minutes away)

In conclusion I think architecture is a very fun and interesting profession that I might pursue. What do you want to be when you grow up?

When you hear art, the first thing you probably think about is drawing or painting. But, Art comes in many forms, visual, dance, musical, and many others. But today I’ll be writing about my favorite type, visual art.

What is Visual Art?

Visual art is the art that is visual and you can make visually, Visual art doesn’t have to be just drawing or something you make that you can touch, it can also be film making or photography.

I like visual art because I feel like I can be very expressive with it. Since there’s so many different ways to do visual art, I feel like there’s always another thing you can try if you’re not the best at drawing or painting. My favorite sub category of visual art is drawing, I love to draw and doddle it relaxes me a lot. It makes me calm even if I had a stressful day at school. There’s no limitations with art, especially drawing, since whatever you feel like drawing you can draw, even if you can’t put it into words you can interpret it into an image from your imagination.

My Favorite Painting

This is my favorite painting because of many different reasons. One of them is the colors, I really love how much they pop and stand out. Another thing is that it reminds me of when I went to Cuba and toured Havana, and it was such a fun trip and great experience.

Favorite Artist

My favorite artist would probably be Bob Ross. I talked more about him in my last post but to recap he was an artist with a show called the joy of painting that aired in the 80’s-90’s. He’s my favorite because of how inspiration and calm he is. I also really like his nature theme he has in his paintings.

“Every artist was first an amateur”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Have you ever drawn a picture?

“We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents”

Bob Ross

Many of you might have seen the man in the photo, and if you don’t you have now. This is Bob Ross and he was a painter and made many paintings over his lifetime.

Who Is Bob Ross?

Here’s a bit of background on him. He was born on October 29th 1942 in Daytona Beach Florida, and died on July 4th 1995 in Orlando Florida, he was only 52.

Bob Ross was a very inspirational man, inspiring people to do art even if they’re told they can’t or are not skilled enough. He would bring animals like squirrels onto his show, making for a nice calm environment, which matches the theme of his paintings.

The Joy Of Painting

Over his life he had a show that ran on PBS, called the Joy of Painting which had 21 seasons each with 13 episodes. He would make a painting every episode. Bob Ross had a special style of painting, he used an oil painting technique and would always do paintings of wilderness.

This is Bob Ross’s first episode of his 31 season series The Joy Of Painting. As you can see, only a minute into the show and he’s being inspirational talking about how you can still paint even if people think it’s wrong or even if you’re not born an amazing painter. You can hear his voice is very calm and the way he’s acting is relaxing to watch.

Some of the many cool guy paintings he made in his show were:

• Bubbling Stream
• Alaskan Waterfall
• Lighthouse at night
• Island In The Wilderness

In conclusion Bob Ross is a calm and inspiring cool guy. Have you ever wanted to paint something?