Megan Donovan

Shapes are formed together and shaded in with different colours. Six black and blue lines are drawn across the horizontal page. This image shows a boat with buildings and uses colours such as blues, yellow, pinks, greens, orange, purple, and red.

My Wonders of the World, pencil crayon on white paper

I describe my art with colours, ink, paper, paintbrush, watercolours, water painting and sometimes drawing with dots. I feel calm and good when I’m drawing and making art.

This image of a pencil crayon and pen drawing on white paper shows Megan's still life that has many colours. In this drawing, there is a bird, several shapes, and colours such as purple, red, blue, yellow, orange, black, green, and pink.

My Still Life, pencil crayon on white paper

 

There are two yellow hands with pink nails illustrated with black outlines and they are close together holding a flower.

Tree Hand Seedling, black marker and watercolour on beige-coloured paper

 

I use lines and patterns. I use water pencils. I describe myself with water drawings.

The picture shows the underside of the light-coloured drum where the weaving and lacing can be seen. The drum is lying flat on a light brown table, and next to it is the stick with blue felt at the end of it.

The deer-hide drum Megan made at the David Finkle workshop on creating a traditional hand drum using stick, deer hide, banding and hoop at the Summer Solstice Festival.

I like music.  
 
I like to make things with my hands like my drum that I made from deer skin.

 
I was in a band called Airband Champs in 1998 where I played the air guitar with friends that I knew since kindergarten and performed the Backstreet Boys.

In this picture Megan has her hair tied up and hanging to the left as she faces the camera and looks down at the drum and her beat. Megan is wearing black pants with a black shirt that has a dinosaur with the text "giganotosaurus" below it.

Megan using the drum that she made at storyteller, musician and drum maker David Finkle's workshop on creating a traditional hand drum using a stick, deer hide, banding and hoop at the Summer Solstice Festival.

 
a painting with a coloured background in shades of pink, blue, red, orange, and yellow. The brushstrokes are visible. Layered on the background, white-outlined blocks resembling shattered ice sheets at a lake's surface, in different geometries.

Ice Fishing with My Dad, acrylic on canvas

a painting with a coloured background in shades of pink, blue, red, orange, and yellow. The brushstrokes are visible. Layered on the background, white-outlined blocks resembling shattered ice sheets at a lake's surface, in different geometries.

Ice Fishing with My Dad, acrylic on canvas

 

I feel good when I use paints.

 
most of the paper is covered with small coloured sections and some outlined circles that have been shaded in with different colours. Some shapes have been mixed with two colours, such as green and blue, purple and pink, and blue and purple.

Tulip Fields, pencil crayon on paper

I like to use my sketchbook to draw shapes and birds. 

I like to draw everything.

a blue sun shining over smiling people and animals. green, black, brown, and purple clouds above the people and animals. shapes and colour blocks among the people and animals doing different activities together.

My Summer in 2016, pencil crayon on paper

There are two tall tulips in the bottom left corner next to a blue pot with small greens growing out of it. Above the tulips and flower pot is a green turtle looking at two figures smiling on the right; The figures are wearing hats.

My Turtle Flower Tulip and Turtles on the Rideau Canal, pencil crayon on paper

I like to draw rabbits, little mermaid and polka dots.

I like to take pictures of trees and draw them.

 
 
an elephant looking into a big tower of salad. a thinking bubble calling out "I hate salads". on the bottom left corner, "elephant and then he sneezed" is written in black ink

Elephant Sneeze, black marker, pencil, and pencil crayons on a light-beige coloured paper

this drawing traced from the original drawing Elephant Sneeze. A grey mass in the shape of an elephant, next to scribbles of green, pink, orange, yellow, and red depicting the salad.

Elephant Sneeze 2, tracing of Elephant Sneeze, coloured pencil crayons on mylar paper.

 

“Elephant Sneeze” are drawings that were made based on Megan’s participation in freelance journalist and artist John Loeppky’s writing workshops with BEING studio artists.

In these workshops, artists were invited to collaborate together to create a story. After creating the story with other artists, Megan decided to create artwork about the story.

 

Moose, owls, and an elephant at a dinner party.

They order some salad as an appetizer. Inside the salad there's orange and almonds. They order lemonade.  
 
They're all thinking of getting married and then one of the elephants  
sneezes. The elephants spray lemonade all over the owl. 
 
The owl says I don't want salad, I want meat and I'm tired. I'm tired of salad...

Patterns, watercolour on paper

Patterns, pencil and crayons on paper

 

The colours I like to use in my art are black and red. 

 
Colours and shapes inspire me.

 

 We acknowledge the support of the Access Copyright Foundation.

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