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bryan d 🇨🇦 artist @bryyyan.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

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!

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bryan d 🇨🇦 artist @bryyyan.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

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.

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bryan d 🇨🇦 artist @bryyyan.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

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.

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bryan d 🇨🇦 artist @bryyyan.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

I thought Jerry was dead 🫨 Nice sketches, captures the mood and flavour 🍊

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bryan d 🇨🇦 artist @bryyyan.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

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 🕺💃

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bryan d 🇨🇦 artist @bryyyan.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

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.

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bryan d 🇨🇦 artist @bryyyan.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Fun sketch. But.. how did you get a photo of my cluttered workstation? 😆

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bryan d 🇨🇦 artist @bryyyan.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

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!

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bryan d 🇨🇦 artist @bryyyan.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

I can see it, full Looney Tunes style 😆

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bryan d 🇨🇦 artist @bryyyan.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

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.

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Amy Borgman @amyborgman.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

roaming at midnight a wildcat in the shape of my shadow #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

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bryan d 🇨🇦 artist @bryyyan.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Yep. And I set it up soooo long ago I didn't have any recovery in place, so I never got it back 🫠

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bryan d 🇨🇦 artist @bryyyan.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

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.

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bryan d 🇨🇦 artist @bryyyan.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Love the sketch! Also, the historical context really adds flavour.

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bryan d 🇨🇦 artist @bryyyan.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

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.

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bryan d 🇨🇦 artist @bryyyan.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

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.

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