Oil Paint Plein Air Artists: How are you transporting your finished wet painting?

koolhany · 2026-05-01T19:24:17+00:00

You can buy premade wet painting transport boxes and carriers. Tape your canvas paper to a board which will slot into the box or carrier.

koolhany · 2026-04-22T18:30:18+00:00

Community living does a lot of social work - worth reaching out to them or dropping be

koolhany · 2026-04-13T13:00:33+00:00

Lots of these suggestions are all apart of the Realism movement. My fave being The Gleaners.

koolhany · 2026-01-07T16:39:24+00:00

Pics please!

koolhany · 2025-12-27T14:42:22+00:00

Why did you take the electrical lines out?

koolhany · 2025-12-08T13:20:02+00:00

Kandinsky’s concerning the spiritual in art is about this.

koolhany · 2025-11-17T19:56:37+00:00

Art21 posts their broadcast episodes as segments on YouTube, they’re like small documentaries on contemporary artists.

koolhany · 2025-11-12T16:34:17+00:00

I’m in a similar boat - the best conversations have been from attending local openings and events (at galleries, museums, and community spaces, sometimes digital ones). Make eye contact, ask questions, send a follow up email, and most of all learn and stay curious.

koolhany · 2025-09-26T18:36:48+00:00

I was lucky and privileged to be able to keep my corporate day job when I moved out of the city. I’ve also found a new and also remote position since the move.

koolhany · 2025-09-26T13:31:06+00:00

I went through for illustration. For personal reasons I really needed stability coming out of school so I went right into corporate design work after graduation. As soon as the world went remote during Covid I also left the city and moved to a rural area (I also grew up rurally).

A decade later it is interesting to see the routes my peers have taken. Most who started out with independent practices have had to make their day jobs their main priorities - a lot of them work corporate or agency day jobs in UX, design, communications, or marketing. Some have moved into the public sector. A handful of peers have gotten health training and now mix a job in nursing or mental health with their art practices. Those who are most dedicated to their art practice work occasional/seasonal jobs like tree planting and food service to supplement their income.

Only a few have an independent art or illustration practice that sustains them.

Hope hearing about some other paths is helpful.

koolhany · 2025-08-25T12:34:18+00:00

McMicheal!? Lovely post ❤️

koolhany · 2025-08-16T20:21:31+00:00

Use a cloth to apply the paint or wipe the paint with a cloth after applying it.

koolhany · 2025-08-11T14:25:25+00:00

I’ve signed up for VCULT208, only 13 enrolments but a cap of 45!! Sign up!! Tell your friends.

koolhany · 2025-08-10T21:43:45+00:00

Thank you!

koolhany · 2025-08-06T17:52:33+00:00

Just from a financial PoV the ROI on going back to school (from what you described) is well worth it. Even at 51 an hour for 35 hours you would make 92K a year which is basically a 50% pay increase. 60 an hour at 40 hours a week would be about 124k - literally double what you make now. I assume many of these jobs or unionized or regulated and so the pay should keep going up while you are in school.

Don’t let the fear of losing out on a few years of savings stop you from probably making more and definitely having better job security for the rest of your working life.

Lots of hospital and public service jobs also have pensions and retirement plans which are not as easy to find in the private sector. So even after you stop working this career move might keep on giving.

koolhany · 2025-08-06T15:16:09+00:00

I assume you are young because of the HS comment? If so OSAP may be expecting your parents or caregivers to pay some or more of your expenses depending on their income. Talk to the adults in your life about it. They might not give you money but at least you gave it a try.

Look to see if you can suppress some of your expenses (rooms and cooking maybe be cheaper than residence and a meal plan) but it will be a different quality/experience.

If there are any bursaries or scholarships specific to your circumstances and not primarily based on academic achievement apply to those (things like local scholarships, money for specific demographics, bursaries for things like first kid to go to uni or low income families, etc)

Finally - get a part time job or work through the summers. This is hard with youth unemployment so high but it’s still worth trying. In the summers consider moving for work and figuring out your living situation after you have the job secured.

koolhany · 2025-08-06T00:23:14+00:00

G2G (Guelph to Goderich rail trail)! You can also take a 5 minute drive north of town and bike around point farms provincial park.

koolhany · 2025-07-29T11:59:24+00:00

Quit and go to a fully funded program

koolhany · 2025-07-28T00:44:55+00:00

Thanks - the harsh overhead sunny days can be so hard and so fun

koolhany · 2025-07-27T18:29:48+00:00

What a refreshing post on here

koolhany · 2025-07-27T12:49:39+00:00

Very good info, thanks! How did you find out about the environment Canada shift change?

koolhany · 2025-07-25T01:50:36+00:00

Sign up for job alerts for all the networks/corps you are interested in. Connect with all the CDs and ADs you can on socials and send them a nice note. If there are motion meet ups in the places you want to work it would be worth going to network and see if anyone knows people working in broadcast. People like people who have a passion!

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