Episode 4 – The Watercolouress

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05/01/13 • -1 min

Episodes – We're Gonna Make It!

Episode 4:

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This month, we focus our sights and speak to a solitary artist about an artistic form that began in paleolithic caves, was refined in the high days of the Rennaissance, and persists in Elementary schools throughout the world.

It’s watercolour painting, and to guide us in our exploration, we have contacted one of its brightest young pupils.

Renee Nault is a Canadian artist who operates out of Victoria, BC. She works primarily in watercolour and ink, using crisp lines to reign in the dynamic nature of the paint. Her art has appeared in magazines, advertisements, books, and periodicals such as The Los Angeles Times.

Her current focus is on an original graphic novel called Witchling, which she is both writing and illustrating.

More of her work can be found at reneenault.com

On the contest front, it turns out that watercolours are a merciless and unforgiving medium that require a great deal of foresight and planning to use properly. Hooray.

Neither host had ever used watercolours outside of grade school art class, so this was a tricky test of skill. Overcoming adversity though, Moss and Taylor each produced a work of art using paint and ink to be judged by Renee. The illustrations are shown below, but Renee’s verdict is locked away in the depths of the audio file that you can conveniently hear or download at the top of this page.

Taylor’s Painting

Moss’ Painting

This episode’s soundtrack includes the following track by OLAV:

(Renee’s theme)

Episode 4:

http://archive.org/download/WereGonnaMakeItE04/We%2527re%20Gonna%20Make%20It%20E04.mp3

Download Episode 4 (right click and choose Save Link As...)

It’s watercolour painting, and to guide us in our exploration, we have contacted one of its brightest young pupils.

Her current focus is on an original graphic novel called Witchling, which she is both writing and illustrating.

More of her work can be found at reneenault.com

On the contest front, it turns out that watercolours are a merciless and unforgiving medium that require a great deal of foresight and planning to use properly. Hooray.

Taylor’s Painting

Moss’ Painting

This episode’s soundtrack includes the following track by OLAV:

(Renee’s theme)

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Episode 3 – The Photographers

Episode 3:

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In this, the third episode of We’re Gonna Make It, we tackle one of the most prolific hobbies in the world. With the dawn of digital cameras and the rise of interactive Web 2.0 culture, photography has become a medium in which anybody with a cell phone and a Flickr account can become an artist.

But has this inundation of the form weakened its merits? Today, to reflect the huge audience for this medium, we go broad and talk to five different artists, some professional and some amateur, and we try to learn what it is about photography that makes them passionate.

Andrew Dodd Clippingdale is an event and promotional photographer in Victoria, BC, who also juggles the life of a filmmaker, graphic designer, and DJ.

His company, Dodd’s Eye Media, can be found at facebook.com/doddseyemedia and you can see some of his choice pieces at flickr.com/photos/doddseyemedia/

He takes pictures using a Canon EOS 7D. He describes it as “pretty okay.”

Kristy Westendorp is a lifestyle photographer who operates out of the greater Victoria area. She dabbled in the field of boudoir photography before moving on to more family-oriented work.

She is on maternity leave right now with her second child, so she doesn’t have a current website of her work, but you can find her by searching for Kristy Westendorp Photography, and we’ll be sure to update her profile here.

She uses a Canon EOS 5D Mark II, typically with lenses ranging from a 50mm 1.4 to an 85mm 1.8 (I don’t know what these numbers mean.)

Ally Butler works for the provincial government in Vancouver, BC. Her most fond memories of photography are from its unseen technical side, from when she worked as a photo technician.

She uses a Nikon D90, but also has her old film cameras: a Nikon F80, and the Canon AE-1 her dad gave her to get her interested in photography.

Justin Holmes is a Vancouver-based programmer with an education in photography. He takes pictures as a way to simply document life, without artistic ambitions.

He uses a Nikon something-or-other, a broken Canon SD600, and his phone, which is actually his best camera.

Jennifer Cook is still an artist in Victoria, BC. (Nothing’s changed there since our first episode.) She believes in a creative approach to photography, staging elaborate scenes with an air of theatricality.

She uses a Nikon D5000 these days, which she prizes for its swivel screen. She also has a toybox full of cruddy old film cameras, including her prized Holga.

This pantheon of artists gave the hosts, Moss and Taylor, a series of photo tasks that harrowed their very souls and drove them extremely close to the edge of reasonable sanity. To see the pictures they took, and to get a detailed breakdown of how the judges voted, follow the link (Warning: Major Spoilers for Episode 3.)

The We’re Gonna Make It Episode 3 Photographic Portfolio
With Judging Scores!!

This episode’s soundtrack includes the following tracks by OLAV:

(Andrew and Kristy’s theme)

(Ally and Justin’s theme)

(Jennifer’s theme)

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Episode 5 – The Bride and Groom

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This month we bring you a very special episode of We’re Gonna Make It. The perfectly aligned celestial bodies of “there’s a big event in our future” and “oh my god we have no time to make a podcast this month” have conspired to bring you this, our first (and I’m guessing only)...

We’re Gonna Make It

Wedding Spectacular

I’m marrying my co-host tomorrow, on June 2nd. And as such, neither of us had any time to put a proper episode of this show together. You think we just roll this garbage out in a day?

We realized though, that over the course of our 15-month engagement, we had ourselves become experts in a very exclusive niche field. That is to say, the planning and preparation of our own wedding.

So this month, we talk about the myriad crafts and artistic endeavours we undertook to create our wedding decorations, invitations, and more. As much as possible, we DIY-ed wherever we could, partially to save money but mostly to make our wedding a singular event that reflected our own personalities as closely as possible.

To hear all about our handmade nuptual garnishes, have a listen to the episode. Or have a look below for a few select images of our crafts.

Save The Dates

Showcasing our exuberant use of fonts inspired by both Zelda and The Lord of the Rings.

Invitations

This was the background Moss drew for the invites, inspired by a map of Quadra Island drawn by Hilary Stewart. The faded sections are where words were to be overlaid.

Table Decorations

From left to right: Douglas Fir tray, candle holder w/sand, flower vase, inukshuk pie toppers, favour boxes with washi tape, escort stones for place settings. Not shown are the pie server and the larger inukshuks.

This episode’s soundtrack features the Marriage of Figaro Overture by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: