Romeo Dallaire

A challenge that might be like walking on a minefield...I did not have a chance to draw Tanner Rasmussen...I wondered if u could pull off a tasteful sketch if Canadian Hero  Romeo Dallaire was in the room with him...Actually Tanner probably can. I harboured the hope that he would drag this sketch home a afix it to his empty fridge.

Drop me a line pl.

Carl Bergstrom

 I caught the roughest semblance of Carl Bergstrom comedically jousting with Tanner Rassmussen

i drew him atop the city hall clown's Rob and Doug (hey that's funny)

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GB epicurist

Drinking coffee with an artful cap at Jazz Cafe...we engaged in a brief conversation. I learnt his love of food had taken him to George Brown... I see a street food and it's gonna be good.

Man in a Blue Scarf, by Lucien Freud

Inspired to Sketch at the National Portrait Gallery

Drawn at the best Lucien Freud Exhibition 

Meet one of Lucien Freud's well known paintings, Man in a Blue Scarf, inspired to sketch onto the OFFICIAL program notes. Page 38 discusses this masterpiece at this retrospective 2011 show, Lucien Freud Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery in London.

Freud single handedly reinvigorated the art of portraiture, Didn't HE?

SAVED from it's dry bankers walls and dowdy dark institutional atriums and hallways

to express the raging man and women within.

$45,000 Art on art

art is intended to start a conversation

Lanny Shereck, Painter

A portrait of Lanny Shereck, painter, the darker brooding side
by David Knighton, oil

I took one thing to heart from Lanny, a accomplished painter and instructor...U can learn how to paint in a day but it takes 30 years to know how to draw...a few thousand portraits on… , I have been able to claw, beg,  and steal a just small incremental gain  so I am inclined to agree.

But my painting has improved.

$42, 000 US

The purpose of this art is to start a conversation

DJ Plus

Intense, but more about the look. Drawn and posted at the Foundry Lofts.  He now resides on my wall.

his Lordship

quick sketch

His Lordship has reached the tender age of 50. A character and a half. He has a presence perhaps inspired by his illustrious father, John Neville  (starring role in Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988). His Lordship has a booming radio announcers voice and is seldom not the centre of attention. Happy Birthday.

the Listener

A friend and listener engaged in conversation with the Researcher. May 2013

the Researcher

The sharpie has aged this youthful 20 something Spanish speaking researcher. He spoke to the listener in a suave and playfully confident English at the Red Tavern on Spadina. A researcher in communication. Please email knightonart@gmail.com with your thoughts.

Aroma, Patron 2, Lips

aroma,  Lips 9x12 sharpie

A patron at Aroma I believe waiting for her beau allowed me to make this casual impression.
She had something and I hope some of that is conveyed in the lines

Drop me an e if u view.
Thank u

 occasionally I sketch at aroma/portraits are always given. Enjoy, David Knighton

THE ANNEX

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Hours of Operation:
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Aroma Cafe, patron 1

A student perhaps Korean studying in Aroma
His sharp distinctive features and artful glasses could not be avoided
April 2013.


I may sketch u, art always given

THE ANNEX

500 Bloor Street West
Toronto, ON M5S 1Y3
(416) 536-7750

Hours of Operation:
Monday – Friday 7:30 AM to 11:00 PM
Saturday – Sunday 8:00 AM to 11:00 PM

Barack Obama 18x 24

The Incredible Barrack Obama 

18x 24, news print blue pencil, 

royalty free to use providing

u send an email prior to usage to knightonart@gmail.com, confirming you will credit it. Commercial publication including garments must provide a written credit to David Knighton, artist. Available for professional photography. and other file formats.

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18x24 Newsprint Tim Gardiner

Tim Gardiner, artist

the Spanish teacher

The Spanish Teacher drawn at Tango on Queen East

having a dialogue with a accomplished student over a coffee at Tango.

I love the sound of Spanish it is so musical.

Tango is a great place to relax

and enjoy learning!!!

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if you wish to post a link for Spanish interaction or email

send me information and I will post it.

Mitzi's Cafe

Mitzi's on Sorauren Ave at Pearson on a warm fall day. Isn't great to have a neighbourhood cafe. Owned by Leslie, who lives and works and has children in the area. (superior to any corporate cafe that are so uniform) Enjoy.   David Knighton, local artist.

Address: 100 Sorauren Ave, Toronto, ON M6R 2C9 at Pearson

Telephone:(416) 588-1234

Hours:

Sunday	9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Monday	7:30 am – 4:00 pm
Tuesday	7:30 am – 4:00 pm
Wednesday	7:30 am – 4:00 pm
Thursday	7:30 am – 4:00 pm
Friday	7:30 am – 4:00 pm
Saturday	9:00 am – 4:00 pm

Chris Winter

First Sketch at Nuit Blanche. Chris Winter let me complete a sketch all be it on a poorly picked page in the right context.

Chris Winter is a environmentalist and just to pick one from his many credits, Chris helped start the Jane Jacobs walk. A highly popular annual event. His newest adventure is Canada Conserves.


Thanks Chris

Link to people

Find out what Chris Winter is working on now
www.canadaconserves.ca

Chanel amongst the cigarettes

Chanel amongst the cigarette butts

A recent painting, whilst I prefer portraits this is painted from a photo taken in Kensington Market, Toronto. I was struck by the beauty and the decadence.

The purpose of this art is to start a conversation

begin:

Avril, ME Me ME, Nuit Blanche

Film Editor Avril Jacobson sketched at Gallery 1313 on 1313 Queen Street
at Nuit blanche

AJ's statement

By removing a wall between residents and passers by her work reveals the paradox of high density living:

even when we are all alone we are all together.


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me me me visual media artist story

DicK Northwood, Nuit Blanche

Erotic Photographer and Nuit Blanche Gladstone exhibitor, Richard Northwood cut a remarkable figure of a man and is featured in many of his photographic compositions. His associate was equally compelling that to my eye was part of the art form itself.

Richard Northwood was invited by the Gladstone for Nuit Blanche to display his thoughtful erotica. An oxymoron you might say but times have changed. Erotica is no longer a fringe art and judging by the popularity of his exhibition it is main street and Northwood is ready to Play

Nuit Blanche Belle

Initially unaware of the my gallery project but in the spirit of nuit blanche she tolerated my sketching. There is something about this particular sketch that draws me.


Completed in the Gladstone: temple and supporter of  the arts.

The drawing was given, I believe, to an admirer...A tall good looking gentleman of  Asian decent
Send me an e


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Joan, watercolourist Nuit Blanche

Joan, a watercolourist is currently exhibiting in Gallery 1313.  Joan's water colour (name to follow) was completed this year in Cornwall. Painted in vivid blues and yellows of a rugged and beautiful coastline somewhere in Cornwall, England.
(picture to follow)

Joan was initially unsure what to make of me as I started to sketch her onto the pages of a Nuit Blanche program. We talked as I sketched. Certainly I take a chance every time I draw someone unannounced.

Joan had a presence that  I hope was translated into my sketch.

We talked, and Joan shared an illustrators secret as I committed the sharpie to the page. We both admired Avril's work, me me me, a commissioned nuit blanche artist.

I was then onto the Gladstone


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Rachel,Thespian Nuit Blanche 2012

Rachel, student,
writer and majoring in theatrical arts will be completing her BA in a matter of weeks.

In her other incarnation she works as barkeep at not my dog on Queen.  Rachel served me a water as I completed a second Nuit Blanche sketch on the program for the event. 

She sang along with the music and indeed had a fine voice.