I came across Jess and Mel at the inaugural event for RAW artists Kitchener-Waterloo in November 2016. I enjoyed their work and Mel's live painting at the event.
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Overhead shot from 3rd floor during round 1.
The popular live painting competition returned to The MUSEUM on January 28th, 2017. This was my third time attending. You can read about last year's event here. I noticed that the crowd seemed slightly smaller than last year, but that may have been due to Leadership Waterloo Region's Fire & Ice Gala being held on the same night.
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Meaghan Claire Kehoe is a Toronto and Kitchener-Waterloo based painter, muralist and live painter. She is always busy with murals for office spaces, and commercial spaces with Starbucks ranking as her top client. She recently won the regional title of 2016 Toronto Champion for Art Battle Canada and has been taking projects live-painting for weddings and events.
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The ballot
Live painting is a type of visual performance art. It isn’t new, but it has definitely seen a resurgence over the past 10-20 years. A lot of great artists painted with an audience or took their painting outside of the studio and to the streets or the countryside. Street and graffiti artists are known for live painting
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