{"id":149,"date":"2011-02-05T01:40:48","date_gmt":"2011-02-05T06:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benoist.ca\/news\/?p=149"},"modified":"2018-07-06T21:06:23","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T21:06:23","slug":"sketches-by-rachel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benoist.ca\/?p=149","title":{"rendered":"My Artist’s Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I was inspired by my sister Naomi once again to look inwards towards myself, and try to find something that gives me joy. So in middle of summer last year, I decided to go back to my creative routes to explore my passion for drawing.\u00a0 I have been drawing for a long time but never took the craft seriously.\u00a0 So guess being 41 years old.\u00a0 So I figured it was finally time, I started this by calling the local 211 number to find drop ins for a place to go to meet people and draw.<\/p>\n

So it brings to me, to this point in my life where I feelcomfortable to share my artwork with friends and family. Please note that I have posted artwork in early posts but there are no words from me the artist.\u00a0 So here is my first official blog entry.<\/p>\n

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Since, early July, I have been attending a drop centre called Art Heart to meet other people who are interested in the “Creative Arts”.\u00a0 I have met many wonderful people there whom I can share my creative interests with other artists who equally share their techniques and skills .\u00a0 What a world that has opened up for me.\u00a0 I found some inner piece and joy that is unexplainable to put in a blog, so I hope it shows in my work.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I loose myself while holding a pencil for hours, or just painting something with a friend or alone in my kitchen.\u00a0 I have been reading and practicing as much as possible.\u00a0 The following pieces here are quick sketches that I have done to learn how to capture a pose of a person, to practice drawing.\u00a0 They are not the greatest but I am learning quickly, and it is fun .\u00a0 You learn allot really fast trust me.\u00a0 I promise myself to do more it soon.\u00a0 I was out with my sister, enjoying some local Toronto talent, and I decided to practice my craft, here is an example of one so far.<\/p>\n

The actual woman is so much more beautiful in person.\u00a0 Believe me. Honey Novick, she is very talented.<\/p>\n

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Next is a drawings done the same night of several different men who were singing. I have to say I was a bit distracted by the music.\u00a0 All of them where awesome to listen to.<\/p>\n

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Which brings me to my latest work,where I took a photograph and took my time.\u00a0 I still believe I need more practice.\u00a0 What do you think?<\/p>\n

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Micheal Douglas Drawing by Rachel<\/p><\/div>\n

This one was done only a few days ago, one in the<\/p>\n

wee hours of the morning because I couldn’t sleep and was feeling slightly under the weather and needed to settle my mind.\u00a0 Enjoy.<\/p>\n

Sincerely,<\/p>\n

Rachel Benoist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was inspired by my sister Naomi once again to look inwards towards myself, and try to find something that gives me joy. So in middle of summer last year, I decided to go back to my creative routes to explore my passion for drawing.\u00a0 I have been drawing for a long time but never took the craft seriously.\u00a0 So… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artwork-crafts","category-rachels-notes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/benoist.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/MaleAudiance_0001-150x150.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90eXT-2p","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benoist.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benoist.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benoist.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benoist.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benoist.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/benoist.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"https:\/\/benoist.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benoist.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benoist.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benoist.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benoist.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}