On March 14th 2019,

I have recently gone on a field trip to a museum that is around the forest; It is the McMicheal Canadian Art Gallery. The tour has lasted three hours and a half, around the afternoon. In the beginning, the exhibition did not seem anything more than average, however, as I continued to go through the gallery, I saw images that inspired feelings that I have not expected to feel. I started to feel like I have been there before, like the time I was a little child on a school trip to a museum that is around the forest, but even if it was a different gallery, it was familiar.

In the beginning of the show, the first artwork is from Luke Anguhadluq, it was Untitled. It was made in Baker Lake, Nunavut. The image has featured two humans separate from each other a little bit, in two rows and yellow boats floating. The animals in this image are looking unknown but with horns that made them known as goats that is colored in green, blue and light blue. This artwork has been made in graphite, colored pencil on paper. This image has a positive effect on the viewer, as it feels like anything is accepted, it has made me believe that art masterpieces can be made in any art materials that are welcome. What is missing in the art piece is the color blue lines for the water. It feels like this image shows that the boats are floating into nothing but a blank air space. The left side of the piece shows the goats looking like they are standing on nothing too. The artist should have drawn green “zig-zag” lines under the goats. This image is part of the Inuit Art collection. What I like about this image is that it brings the memories of my childhood where I was very young, coloring with pencil crayons.

The second artwork is from F.H. Varley, called Night Ferry. It was made in Vancouver, 1937, and is oil on canvas. The image features the nighttime around a city that is little bit far away in the back ground while there is a boat with one human being in a close up front. The painting brings a positive feel for how colorful and bright this painting is. More specifically, I felt very joyful seeing a peaceful night that is more multicolored. Although, the water’s effect, which is curly lines in the painting shows a lot of multiple colors than the sky. Additionally, it is brilliant that the artist has combined a lot of oil paints to create this masterpiece. This image is part of the Group of Seven. I appreciated this image more because it made me feel of wanting to see more of those colorful oil paintings and inspires me to make one.

Finally, Lawren Harris creates the painting and calls it a Snow Fantasy. It was made in 1917, painted in oil on canvas.  This image shows a close up to a forest of snow covered pine trees with the snowy ground. The background behind the trees is the late afternoon, colored in yellow. The painting brings a positive feeling that reminds them of winter activities and the holidays. What is missing and should have been shown in the painting is the sky that can show a sun and the clouds, so the viewer can see if there is an afternoon or is it the beginning of a sun set. The image is part of the exhibition known as Lawren Harris: Leaps and Bounds and also part of the collection called the Group of Seven. What made me like the image is that it looks more realistic and got the afternoon effect right.