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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
Meet awesome people
ABOUT ME
I'm from Vancouver, Canada and have also lived in Germany and Taiwan for about 6 years. I paint/draw/sketch and teach oil painting and figurative drawing.
Just finished 2.5 months in Argenton, France studying figurative oil painting. Maybe I'll paint your portrait if you'll sit for me :)
You can check out my work at www.spwilliams.ca if you're curious!
People say i'm funny and friendly and I always love a good conversation over a beer or wine.
I love to cycle, play piano & guitar, read, and go to galleries and museums on a regular basis.
PHILOSOPHY
Do what you love and love what you have.
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
I host and surf couches! I would like to participate in CouchSurfing events once i get to Taiwan, too...
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
So far, so good! The people i've hosted and my couch surfing experiences have all been great and now i'm a CouchSurfer for life!
Interests
Painting (mostly oil), drawing, gallery hopping, art museums, piano, guitar, travel, reading
- arts
- books
- festivals
- wine
- beer
- instructor
- reading
- traveling
- painting
- drawing
- guitar
- piano
- cycling
- surfing
- science
Music, Movies, and Books
Movies: Anything by Werner Herzog!
Music: Indie, hiphop, classical, metal...it's all good :)
Books: Alain de Botton, JG Ballard, Cormac McCarthy, Tom Wolfe, just about anything that's either poetically written or interesting non-fiction, or both...
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
The Yuanshuay Festival in Taiwan...it happens every February in a small town. Everybody dresses up in rubber raincoats & fullface motorcycle helmets and people fire hundreds of thousands of bottle rockets and other fireworks directly at the crowd!!! super crazy stuff...it's supposed to ward off evil spirits for the coming year...
Teach, Learn, Share
I've been a life drawing and painting instructor for the past 5 years and would be happy to give someone a crash course!
Here are a few recommended books:
Drawing:
'Keys to Drawing' by Bert Dobson
'The Practice and Science of Drawing' by Harold Speed
Painting:
'Portraits from Life in 29 Steps' by John Howard Sanden
'Alla Prima' by Richard Schmidt
Countries I’ve Visited
Belgium, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Poland, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States
Countries I’ve Lived In
Canada, Germany, South Korea, Taiwan, United States