Art Progress

  The Nickle Gallery A review by Yuki Grimoldby Stepping into the Nickle Gallery for the debut of Ecologies by Evelyn Koliju, I felt a wave of excitement and curiosity. The prospect of exploring not just one, but two captivating exhibitions immediately drew me in. The experience was an unexpected blend—learning about the powerful role of horses in wartime, then shifting focus to the interplay of science and art in ecology. In this review, I’ll first introduce the Nickle Gallery, then discuss the fascinating Munnings: The War Years exhibit, and finally spotlight my personal favorite, Ecologies by Evelyn Kaliga. "Taylor Family Digital Library."  Travel Alberta , www.travelalberta.com/listings/nickle-galleries-10805. Accessed 20 Nov. 2025. The Gallery is a university gallery located in the Taylor Family Digital Library on the University of Calgary campus. It offers a selection of contemporary work by Canadian artists. The gallery is easy to access, being just a 10-minute walk fr...

SKETCHES        This post is a collective post from the last three weeks of work so might be a little long. On the first week I made 5 different coasters with various designs in Procreate. The first one I designed is a mandala with a pastel colour pallet using the radial symmetry tool      The second one, I took the prompt of a coaster that fails at being a coaster. I essentially just made it a block of wood with a sloped top     Next,  designed a Formula 1 car as a coaster. I would have made it to have functional wheels and a spoiler at the back for maximum aerodynamics.       Then, I designed a coaster for the centennial at AUArts. I would make it out of a a light wood, and originally have the AUArts logo appear when condensation gathered on the surface and have an art themed pattern engraved. however numerous people suggested I had the logo engraved and the pattern be what appears with condensation.      ...

      So like last week, I did a castle but this time I decided to added more details and fix up the original. And that means starting from scratch        I started like I did last week with making an outline with circles, but this time I also used rectangles to mark where I want the battlements and ramparts by using the rotate tool with copy on so it will look even.      Then I extruded everything with extrude curve and cut it with boolean  difference.      Already looks so much better and we aren't even done the outer walls. Now I take two circles and two squares to make arch doorways and windows, I pushed a copy of this layout to the side to save for later.     I used the revolve tool to help me get the shape all the way around through each tower, then cut the shape from each tower. N ow we have doorways in the towers.      (I took this screenshot before I did the ramparts)  ...

       For this weeks project, I was tasked with making a castle using basic geomatry and some of the following commands in Rhino 3D:           - extrude           - loft (which I didn't use)           - revolve            - move           - copy           - rotate  I also used the Boolean Difference command to cut shapes out, so Im just going to call it the cut tool from here on out, including future posts     My first step was to make the layout of the walls, I also decided to make a walkway on the top of the wall hence for the extra circles. The second step was to use the extrude command to get the cylinders ready for the cutting command (aka Boolean Difference) as shown with the image below. Next I followed the same steps as the walls to make towers along the pe...

For our first week, I was tasked with making a 3D model using cubes summarizing what I did this past summer. Since I was in the precollege program, I did a paint pallet and brush.