Recently my family and I embarked on a photography/hiking trip to the beautiful Lake O’Hara area. We are not avid hikers, but my dad and I are both photography fans and my mother loves getting in touch with nature. So when we found out that there was another lake to see, we had to go. Everyone…
Here are two all-natural ways to lighten your hair this summer! Lemon This method is easy and fast. You can take lemon juice and apply it to the areas that you want lightened, or you can combine the lemon juice with conditioner and put it in a spray bottle to apply to your hair.…
“One sip and you might just feel like you’ve been magically transported to India. In the middle of a snow storm.” …
Finals are coming up soon and it’s a good time to begin your studying so there won’t be any last minute cramming happening. But wait – before you crack open that textbook, it’s a good idea to think about your studying strategies and learn more effectively so you can finish faster and ace that exam. Here…
The “Draw My Life” video trend has been growing for a while, and I recently watched a few of them. It’s no wonder they are so popular, because I think these videos are really worth watching and have good morals (I sound like I’m preaching, but it’s true!) This week I wanted to just provide…
Raise your hand if you’ve ever seen someone eat something off the floor because of the five-second rule. I am. But according to this post by the New York Times, the five-second rule is actually a myth. When you drop food on the floor, and it touches germs, the germs stick to the food immediately.…
It’s the time of year when everyone in my grade is starting to get stressed out about provincial exams. We’re writing short stories, and I was looking at techniques when I accidentally stumbled upon the art of flash fiction. It’s an interesting art. Legend has it that Ernest Hemingway once wrote a story in only…
During the spring break, I was charged with the daunting task of creating a poster for the school play, Dorothy Meets Alice. I was stumped. How do you create something that is both aesthetically pleasing, and will get your message across? I spent a lot of time researching effective poster design and general art composition,…
A great thing for any artist to do is gesture drawing. This kind of fast-paced drawing captures the form of a subject and makes it identifiable, but not too detailed or clean. It helps build many essential skills such as understanding proportions and muscle structure, and with practice it can help artists capture scenes quickly…
Yesterday, March 14, is the designated date of national Pi Day. Why? It was 03/14, or 3-1-4, which are the three most significant digits of pi! Pi is a common mathematical constant that is equal to the ratio between the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Chances are you’ve used this irrational number at…
Soundtracks can make or break a game. In the case of the Legend of Zelda, it’s a sure make: the soundtrack for each game in the series is beautiful and fits perfectly into the gameplay. Paired with its awesome plot and graphics, the Legend of Zelda series definitely falls into the category of “Favourites” for…
Today in art class our teacher did a fun exercise with us where we had to capture the pose of a model in 30 seconds. It sounded completely impossible. But with things like contour and gesture drawing, it’s possible – and it looks really cool, too. With contour drawing, the point is to find the…
I’m going to help celebrate Valentine’s Day by sharing these super adorable stories with you. Enjoy ♥ Special Delivery My sweet husband, John, and I were married for 46 years. Each Valentine’s Day, he’d send me the most beautiful flowers containing a note with five simple words: “My love for you grows.” Four children, 46 bouquets…
With the recent Idle No More protests on Bill C-45 for Aboriginal rights and environmental protection (to name a few), racism is starting to show in Canadians as well. I was researching the Bill for a school government project as part of the grade 9 curriculum, and a look at the “Comments” section below the…
The internet is growing rapidly, and we can all see evidence of that in our own lives. Because I love infographics, here’s one about the growth of the internet. To sum it up, the world wide web is growing pretty fast. And while there are definitely a long list of downsides to the growth of…