Back to School

How is everyone doing this beautiful day? Great I hope!

Not sure if many of you know, but while my girlfriend and I were working on my website we were also working on getting into Sheridan College. Don't know if many of you have heard about it; but it's a well respected art college located in Ontario, Canada not that far away from Toronto. It is mostly known for producing Animators, but is also great in it's other fields such as Illustration. Sheridan overall is just a great school for people that are looking for careers in the Arts. Which is why we decided to go there so we could learn and grow as artists. Also to hopefully get some more exposure in the art community for which we are lacking.

Well, as you can probably guess by the title we have made it in and have now just completed our first week of school. It's interesting being back in a school environment again because it has been awhile since I have gone. One thing for sure is that we are both eager to learn so that makes it far more enjoyable to be back in school again. I've always been a self taught artist, searching and feeling my way through the best I can so that I may express my ideas. It will be nice to learn the things I didn't know, which should help me to improve on my own abilities so that I can further expand on my style of painting.

It's a beautiful school, large and well built. You can basically find anything you need so that you don't need to leave campus. Art supply store, food courts and studios to do your art in. The teachers are all great with diverse backgrounds in the field of art. They are very talented and most do their teaching part time as they still continue to work in their fields of study like animation, illustration or fine art.

We look forward to the following weeks ahead to see how much we can grow as artists. See where this road takes us. It's going to be a fun spring and summer of which we hope to produce wonderful pieces of art. Sometime when I get used to this blogging I will try to add pictures to my post so that you can see what we've been doing.

Thanks for reading. We hope your days ahead are wonderful and full of blessings.

Take care and God Bless! ~ Jonathon

Brrrr...It's cold outside

Hello everyone! This is my first post on my new blog for my new website. Wow, a lot of new things going on. Feels great though to do new things and break out of the ordinary, makes you feel alive. I tell you what also makes you feel alive...it's changes in temperature. I can remember not long ago that it was so hot and humid that I could barely stand it, but now it is fall weather, cold and dry. Oh well, may be a little cold, but it's not that bad, just need to acclimate to the new season.

Been working on the computer a lot lately fixing up my website that the love of my life made for me. She made it a while ago but never completely finished it. We only recently just published it to the web. Right now we are working on the blog page which brings me to where I am now. Writing my first blog to you all. I hope you like the look of it, we spent a long time working to get it to have the same look and feel as my website. I think we are pretty much done, maybe a few changes here and there, but not much.

Not much time to paint lately, plus my art supplies are not near me to use. Doesn't matter much anyway since it's important that we get my website done. Which for us is just as fun since it is just another form of creating art. Soon though I hope to get back to my painting. I have the scene roughed out on canvas, just need to get a feel for it. Make sure the image in my mind is clear so that I can paint the story so that it's memorable. I sure hope you will all enjoy it as much as I do painting it.

I will try to post weekly, maybe more or less. New to this blog thing so I don't know how much time I have available. I guess we should get back to work on my site, thanks for stopping on by and I hope you come back often. Also be sure to check out my gallery at www.jonathonmelhus.com and enjoy my portfolio.

Take care and God Bless! ~Jonathon