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Today our guest is Ahmad Najib from Malaysia. He is currently working at a local hospital but his passion is art. He draws peoples’ faces. We have conducted an interview with him. What is your passion? I would say my passion is to be hardworking. In order to make a better drawing is to have a hard work and always keep practicing. My drawings only black and white, to be honest, I’m a colour blind. And not just drawing. Since my background is culinary student I like to carving on fruits, sculpting on a chocolate, using flour to make an eagle, this kind of things I learn in my college I would love to do it again if I get a chance. But now drawing is what focus on now. Maybe one day I would try to do all of that. What do you hope to do with your drawings? First of all, drawing is a hobby for me, but I hope that I get a job. There are many artists around the world which is better than me. Their artwork is far better than mine. It seems to me they took their artwork to ...

Today our guest is Armantė Majar from Lithuania. She lives in Vilnius. We have conducted an interview with her about her drawing and painting. What kind of artwork do you like to focus on creating? I love all artworks, but for creating to me is very important details, idea. I can‘t imagine myself to painting something without forms, to me desperately need that all be clearly and a little bit of fantasy, dream. Which type of key elements do you include in your art? Hmm.. of course it would be shape, form, line, color, space and texture. How much time does it take to paint a painting? Hard question, one painting could be paint for a day, other for a week, or maybe and months. Really everything very depends on how much time you have, but when I’m practically always busy, it takes more times or days, because only for a night I have time to do it. A lot of people thinking that you are doing is not important, easy.. and really have no imagination how long time i...

Katie Smith is an artist and textile designer based in Madrid, Spain. Katie's formal education began at school on the Isle of Bute, Scotland where she began to take interest in painting and illustration. And, though an easily distracted student herself, she earned her Bachelor’s degree in Textile Design with Honours from the prestigious Heriot-Watt University where she gained experience in woven and knitted textiles before specialising in printed textiles. She is inspired by a variety of sources, chiefly the skill of drawing and painting in a detailed and exhaustive manner. Discovering all possibilities is an important aspect of her method; working closely with subject matter ensuring all qualities are captured and then translated onto paper or fabric. Katie's work is based around detail, colour and subject matter tends to be linked to nature or emotion. Katie works with variety of media although always leans towards the fluid and romantic textures created by watercolour pain...

While travelling to beautiful places, Karen loves to illustrate her trip and makes her journey like a fairytale. She sketches travel experiences and pictures with different cultures of each city through visuals and amazing art journal. As a self-taught artist who comes from the East, Hong Kong, Karen draws beautiful sceneries with creative ideas. She has an art brand “ Karen Aruba Art ” illustrating amazing artwork with products in travel & cultural themes. Which are the new destinations in Canada that you've chosen for your 'Art Journal Travel'? In last December, it was my first time to embark on a challenge with an art journey to Japan. Recently this summer in May, I continued the art journey to Vancouver, Whistler and Toronto in Canada with another style of drawing. How did your art journal inspire (both others and also yourself)? If a picture is worth a thousand words, an art journal shows travel lovers thousands of words of an amazing trip in a...