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bryyyan.bsky.social
bryan d 🇨🇦 artist
@bryyyan.bsky.social
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Urban sketching and other creative endeavours. 🇨🇦, into compassion, karate, dharma, hiking, skateboarding, vegetarian cooking, & travel. Everyone is welcome and safe in my timeline. No one is illegal on stolen land.
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Taking a social media break to prepare for a meditation retreat. Will be back in a couple of weeks. Be good to each other while I'm gone!
September 9, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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@usktoronto.bsky.social meetup yesterday in Kensington Market, #Toronto. This view is from the patio at Wanda's Pie In The Sky. #urbansketching #sketchbook #sketch #inkandwash #inkandwatercolour #watercolor #artyear #pleinair #tradart
A sketchbook is open, showing a 2-page spread. On the right are a trash can and a graffitied electrical box. On the other side of the street is a tree in a giant mural on the side of a house in front of which are some people walking and an abandoned car full of plants. Skies are cloudy, it's about to rain. May you all be well.
September 8, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Bumble bee on Allium, from my own reference photo. #sketchbook #inkandwash #inkandwatercolour #watercolor #nature #artyear #flowers #painting #tradart #sketching #Garden #eastcoastkin
A bumblebee alights on an allium flower.There are some brown-eyed susans off to the right and sunny skies above. These moments are fleeting.
September 5, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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My wife bought me a journal of lovely handmade rag paper from Atelier Ecluse in #Montreal. I'm thinking to use it for studies based on my own found or photographed references. Pg 1. #sketchbook #sketching #inkandwash #inkandwatercolour #watercolour #fungifriends #artyear #tradart #natureart #nature
A sketchbook is open showing two small sketches. The top, a bough of Eastern Red Cedar. The bottom a cluster of golden waxy cap mushrooms. May their simple beauty give you pause and a moment to ground.
September 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Allan Gardens, #Toronto. What a lovely place to #sketch, plenty of shade to escape the sun. #urbansketching #inkandwash #inkandwatercolour #watercolor #pleinair #tradart #sketchbook #artyear
A sketchbook is open to a vertical 2-page spread. In the foreground, some plants, trees, and a victorian streetlight. In the middle distance, the glass domes of Allan Gardens. In the background, a high rise and way back, the top of the CN Tower. May your skies be blue!
September 1, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Popped by @agotoronto.bsky.social #Toronto today and did this #sketch of a statue of St. Jerome. Pencil crayon, which I never, ever, use. #sketching #drawing #pencilcrayon #coloredpencil #sketchbook #artyear #art
A blue and red sketch of St. Jerome in robes that are not even close to historically accurate. Art galleries are like temples for those of all faiths or, none at all.
September 1, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Sunset in Withrow Park, #Toronto #urbansketching #inkandwash #inkandwatercolour #watercolor #painting #pleinair #sketchbook #artyear #sketching
A woman walks her dog past bleachers. There are trees and a high rise building in front of a setting sun. May you not be separated from the good fortune you have attained.
August 28, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Ashbridges Bay #Toronto, as seen from Leslie Spit. Those clouds didn't give a single drop of rain. #Pleinair #watercolour (with Lake #Ontario water) on Winsor and Newton cold press. #landscape #scape #watercolor #painting #tradart #art
A watercolour landscape. Water fills the lower third. A ahorelibe emerges from the right with some high-rise buildings peeking above the trees. Dark clouds picking up some yellow from the sun emerge from the left along the lake's edge. May all beings be free.
August 25, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Accidentally happened on a #rave this afternoon. Yes, this kind of thing does happen in #Toronto Portlands. Phantom Unity, which is apparently women-led, at Leslie Lookout park. #urbansketching #inkandwatercolour #watercolor #pleinair #stunday #artyear #dance #edm #sketching
Under blue skies with.puffy clouds a DJ in a concrete tower plats for a Dancing crowd in coloured light filtered through suspended flags. Dance like the people around you are too 🕺💃
August 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Tomorrow's St.Bartholomew's day. His story is a gruesome and fascinating one. I'm far from an expert, but that he is often depicted with a knife edge towards himself (like this statue @st_barts_to) seems fitting. #Watercolour and graphite on Arches cold press. #painting #saints #tradart #artyear
A statue of St. BARTHOLOMEW depicted weilding a knife with the edge of the blade towards himself in a green robe. Watercolour and graphite on Arches cold press.
August 23, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Some #urbansketching from the office in #Toronto yesterday. 1st a view of some condos with the Gardiner expressway. 2nd done #pleinair - a view up Bay St to old city hall. #sketchbook #inkandwatercolour #sketching #watercolor #painting #artyear #scape #urbanscape
Two ink and watercolour sketches. The 1st a view of some condos with the Gardiner expwy in forground and Toronto Island in back. 2nd a view up Bay St to old city hall. May the wind be at tour back today!
August 20, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Sunset on the rocks, Lac Du Moulin #Gatineau #Québec #sketchbook #urbansketching #inkandwatercolour #watercolor #painting #pleinair #artyear #sketching #scape #landscape #stunday
A sketchbook is held up in front of the scene depicted. Yellow light shines almost horizontally on rocks in the lake and is reflected on the water and held by some trees. May all beings be free of anxiety.
August 19, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Stopped by these small rapids while hiking this morning in #Québec A mink popped its head out just as I was leaving - too late to be included in the sketch. #peinair #urbansketching #inkandwatercolour #watercolor #painting #tradarts #artyear #stunday #eastcoastkin #sketchbook #scape #landscape
A set of rapids courses between moss covered rocks and boulders. Trees line the river banks and cast shadows into the ravine. Its said that one can learn the dhamma through nature alone. May the trees, rocks and water whisper universal truths in your ears.
August 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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#sketching some sunset action from the beach in Lac Ste Marie #Québec #urbansketching #landscape #scape #stunday #inkandwash #inkandwatercolour #watercolour #tradarts #artyear
A sketchbook is held up in front of the scene depicted. The sun sets behind an island and a hill. The gentle light is reflected on water in the foreground. May all beings be free.
August 17, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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My daughter, in vacation mode. #urbansketching #inkandwash #inkandwatercolour #watercolor #sketching #sketchbook
A ginger woman with glasses sits in a leather chair using her laptop - likely Tumblr 😄 behind her is a window with a stained glass Cardinal. Some trees and plants are visible in the distance. To her left is a lamp table on which sits the tea she has been nursing for about an hour. May all beings be at ease.
August 17, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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A quick sketch, having completed this weekend retreat. Taan Ajaan Geoff and Taan Isaac from Wat Metta. May you be happy 🙏 #sketching #inksketch #dharmaportrait #sketchbook #artyear #stunday #dharma #metta #drawing #buddhism #meditation
A sketchbook is open, showing a black ink sketch of two Buddhist monks. Around the sketchbook are some pink flowers, a tea light candle, and a stone skull.
August 10, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Skateboarding and sketching yesterday at Ashbrige's Bay #toronto Many a #jagged edge to grind in this skatepark #blueskyartshow #pleinair #urbansketching #Skateboarding #inkandwash #inkandwatercolour #watercolor #painting
A sketchbook is held up in front of the scene depicted. A skateboarder rolls through a graffitied skatepark with many features and obstacles. Some trees are visible in the distance. That thing they say about doing one thing a day thay scares you? It's worth it to feel really alive!
August 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Im sitting a 2-Day online retreat with Ajaan Geoff starting noon EDT. Here's the registration if anyone is interested. lu.ma/e95zx5ms?loc... “May these beings be free from animosity, free from oppression, free from
trouble, and may they look after themselves with ease!” AN 10:165 #dharma #buddhism
Detail of the hand of a Chinese brass Buddha statue found in the Royal Ontario Musuem. The hand is marked with an 8-spoked wheel for the Noble Eight Fold Path.
August 9, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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May all beings be free of all suffering 🙏 Here's a sketch I did of a Korean Buddha rupa that my kids gave me. Diamine Tobacco Sunburst ink - so luminous and fitting for this sketch. #sketch #inksketch #sketchbook #buddha #buddhism #metta #artyear
An ink sketch of a rather muscular Korean Buddha rupa done with Diamine Tobacco Sunburst ink. He is seated in Lotus posture with hands in the diamond mudra. May all who see this experience joy and calm.
August 6, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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"All is burning... burning with what?... the fires of greed, hatred, and delusion." #sn35.28 Another wildfire-smoke sunset. #wildfire #urbansketching #inkandwash #inkandwatercolour #watercolor #artyear #toronto #scape #cityscape
A sketchbook is held up in front of the scene depicted. An orange setting sun is obscured by wildfire smoke. In the foreground parking lot lights and a cell tower stand in front of trees and a cityscape. Karma's a bitch, ain't it?
August 5, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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This is a lamp that hangs over the pews at St. Bartholomew's in #Toronto #urbansketching #sketching #inkandwash #inkandwatercolour #watercolour #artyear #stunday
An antique octagonal brass lamp hangs on a chain. May there be light and love in the days ahead 🙏
August 4, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Finished this one. #watercolour #watercolor #painting #tradart #scape #artyear #landscape #ontario #eastcoastkin
A watercolour landscape painting. A distant shore underground light clouds in the background, with some white pines on a Candian Shield rock point jutting out into the water. Breathe deep and enjoy each moment, my friends.
August 3, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Self-portrait. Watercolour on Arches cold press. Grateful to have the time to pursue my art. #blueskyartshow #gratitude #watercolour #watercolor #painting #portrait #selfportrait #tradart #eastcoastkin #artyear
A watercolour portrait of a bald, bearded me in glasses. May you, too, have the time to pursue your passions!
August 2, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Was at 10 Dean Cafe on Spadina in #Toronto this morning. Did a quick #urbansketch looking towards the bar. Exceptional coffee! #urbansketching #inkandwash #inkandwatercolour #watercolor #sketchbook #artyear #sketching
An open sketchbook shows a scene of a light, airy cafe into which a curving staircase descends. Someone sits at the bar, and some buildings are visible through the large windows. Did you read this? I spend a fair amount of time and effort on alt-text and want to know if it's reaching anyone. Let me know in the comments? Have a lovely day!
July 31, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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More lunchtime #urbansketching on the CIBC Sq Rail Deck on #toronto For the 2nd week in a row, I had a sketching buddy with me 🙂 #sketchbook #inkandwash #inkandwatercolour #watercolor #painting #pleinair
A sketchbook is held up in front of the scene depicted. A blonde woman sits at a table in front of planters filled with young birch trees and bushes. And office tower looms in the background. May your skies be clear!
July 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM