W. Andy Knight
@knight54.bsky.social
2021-22 Fulbright Distinguished Chair in International & Area Studies @YaleU; Past UA Provost Fellow Black Excellence & Leadership; University of Alberta Distinguished Professor, FRSC, LLD
I drew this surreptitiously on a train headed to BC 🇨🇦. The unwitting model was one of my mates from the @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social choir. We gave a series of concerts across Western Canada 🇨🇦. I took my sketch book along to record the personalities of as many of my colleagues as possible.
November 11, 2025 at 1:49 AM
I drew this surreptitiously on a train headed to BC 🇨🇦. The unwitting model was one of my mates from the @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social choir. We gave a series of concerts across Western Canada 🇨🇦. I took my sketch book along to record the personalities of as many of my colleagues as possible.
Portrait in pencil. Capturing a fleeting moment during my final year @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social in Hamilton, Ontario 🇨🇦
November 11, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Portrait in pencil. Capturing a fleeting moment during my final year @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social in Hamilton, Ontario 🇨🇦
Despite the snow on the ground, I have one apple tree in the backyard that keeps on giving of its fruit. This is the final batch of apples from that one tree. I think it produced over 300 apples.
November 8, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Despite the snow on the ground, I have one apple tree in the backyard that keeps on giving of its fruit. This is the final batch of apples from that one tree. I think it produced over 300 apples.
Winter is definitely here in Alberta. Today I will simply stay indoors by the fireplace, sip on coffee, & relax … until Happy decides it’s time to go to the dog park.
November 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Winter is definitely here in Alberta. Today I will simply stay indoors by the fireplace, sip on coffee, & relax … until Happy decides it’s time to go to the dog park.
Unfinished pen and ink sketch of my choir director @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social. His name: Wayne Strongman. He was brilliant and constantly in motion, so I could never really finish the portrait. Lol.
November 8, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Unfinished pen and ink sketch of my choir director @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social. His name: Wayne Strongman. He was brilliant and constantly in motion, so I could never really finish the portrait. Lol.
Portrait of a Trini girl. Experimenting with mixed media.
November 8, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Portrait of a Trini girl. Experimenting with mixed media.
Happy loves winter. He absolutely enjoys the snow…
November 8, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Happy loves winter. He absolutely enjoys the snow…
Quick pen & ink sketch of the farmers wife.
November 8, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Quick pen & ink sketch of the farmers wife.
Attentive audience taking in Dr Sa’di’s talk on Palestinian Deaths. @ualberta.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Attentive audience taking in Dr Sa’di’s talk on Palestinian Deaths. @ualberta.bsky.social
Prof Mojtaba Mahdavi leads off the post lecture discussion of Dr Sa’di talk.
November 6, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Prof Mojtaba Mahdavi leads off the post lecture discussion of Dr Sa’di talk.
Dr Ahmad Sa’di of Ben Gurion University, Israel, speaks about “Palestinian deaths and their dis/articulation in Social Science, in the Colaboratory, Department of Political Science, @ualberta.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Dr Ahmad Sa’di of Ben Gurion University, Israel, speaks about “Palestinian deaths and their dis/articulation in Social Science, in the Colaboratory, Department of Political Science, @ualberta.bsky.social
Dinner with Dr Ahmad Sa’di, of Ben Gurion University, Israel. Thursday, Nov 6 Earls, Edmonton, Alberta 🇨🇦
November 6, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Dinner with Dr Ahmad Sa’di, of Ben Gurion University, Israel. Thursday, Nov 6 Earls, Edmonton, Alberta 🇨🇦
My love of classical music is reflected in some of my paintings - like this one.
November 5, 2025 at 5:05 PM
My love of classical music is reflected in some of my paintings - like this one.
Happy birthday to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Former President of Liberia
November 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Happy birthday to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Former President of Liberia
In art school @McMasterUniversity, I was fascinated by the Dutch genre of stilleven. Drawn to painters from the Netherlands who perfected this genre to reflect memento mori, I also studied Paul Cézanne’s use of still life in his paintings. Here’s one of my attempts in this genre - oil on canvas.
November 3, 2025 at 12:19 AM
In art school @McMasterUniversity, I was fascinated by the Dutch genre of stilleven. Drawn to painters from the Netherlands who perfected this genre to reflect memento mori, I also studied Paul Cézanne’s use of still life in his paintings. Here’s one of my attempts in this genre - oil on canvas.
I did this sketch of my friend John when he was in Medical School at Dalhousie University in Halifax; always studious, always courteous; always kind and empathetic. He is now an outstanding medical doctor in Nova Scotia.
November 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I did this sketch of my friend John when he was in Medical School at Dalhousie University in Halifax; always studious, always courteous; always kind and empathetic. He is now an outstanding medical doctor in Nova Scotia.
My sketch pads are like diaries. My drawings are intended to capture a certain essence of a person and let the viewer figure out what it was I was trying to observe and convey at that particular moment. Here is one of my pencil drawings; hastily done to seize a mood.
October 31, 2025 at 5:26 PM
My sketch pads are like diaries. My drawings are intended to capture a certain essence of a person and let the viewer figure out what it was I was trying to observe and convey at that particular moment. Here is one of my pencil drawings; hastily done to seize a mood.
I’m always trying to capture fleeting moments in my drawings when I travel. Here is one such quick pen and ink sketch of an unsuspecting “model” in New Haven.
October 31, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I’m always trying to capture fleeting moments in my drawings when I travel. Here is one such quick pen and ink sketch of an unsuspecting “model” in New Haven.
Can’t wait to see Happy!!!
October 31, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Can’t wait to see Happy!!!
It’s wonderful to see the vision of a Wilson College for Leadership & Civic Engagement become a reality with the 30 undergrad team cohort @mcmasteruniversity today!
October 31, 2025 at 12:22 AM
It’s wonderful to see the vision of a Wilson College for Leadership & Civic Engagement become a reality with the 30 undergrad team cohort @mcmasteruniversity today!
Could it be that the felon in the White House is aware of his impending death and wants to take out as many people with him as possible?
October 30, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Could it be that the felon in the White House is aware of his impending death and wants to take out as many people with him as possible?
It’s fun looking through my old sketchbooks and reminiscing about the characters I drew, like this one in this pen and ink. Real people, unwitting models, quick sketches that reveal something deep about each person.
October 29, 2025 at 1:07 PM
It’s fun looking through my old sketchbooks and reminiscing about the characters I drew, like this one in this pen and ink. Real people, unwitting models, quick sketches that reveal something deep about each person.