Alissa paints in oil acrylic watercolor and other mixed media. Lanterns, landscapes and abstract pieces are what she goes for. She's been a painter for about 6 years./sf

Moumita is a multidisciplinary artist who paints in watercolors, acrylics, pastels and ink. She is also an art instructor who loves to teach and learn new things from her students. She loves to take inspiration from mother nature and different moments of life./sf

Caillin's art ranges from architectural exploring our connection with buildings through our past through illustrative works with an influence of pop culture, comics, sci-fi, fantasy and other aspects of nerd culture./sf

For Katy, creating is her forte. She will use any medium and uses deep long brush strokes and dramatic lines to focus on emotion. She's inspired by color and composition and her focus is on natural elements, landscapes or animals. Katy is excited about the concept of creating within a timeline./sf

I’m very honoured and excited to be participating in the regionals for Art Battle! These events are incredibly fun and filled with amazing talent and wonderful people. Looking forward to it!

Becka has been participating in Art Battles for 6 years now and has travelled to various cities to perform. Although she mainly runs her family business as a Certified Balloon Artist, Becka takes any opportunity to get out to paint and be creative! /sf

Joline is inspired by nature, peace and color. A self-taught painter, she started painting and drawing at a very young age. She finds inspiration from a variety of things. She gets creative through drawing, watercolor, and even cake making/sf

Nisreen says the beauty of nature around Mississauga is a source of inspiration--sunrise, trees, sky, water, boats. She specializes in landscapes, floral and abstracts. She uses a palette knife and brushes and believes that her colors bring out happiness, excitement and love to the world./sf

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David's art is an exploration of the beauty in all things. Using bold color and line, he often paints portraits and figures that blend both distortion and elegance. His goal is to show people that even the ugly can be lovely. David loves the energy that the Art Battle brings and finds that being watched is actually freeing and empowering./sf

I so pumped to paint for you all! The energy and creative explosion of art battle is like nothing else. Thanks for supporting local artists!

A friend of a former contestant, Christian was inspired to try the battle herself. And now she is here for the second time! She “enjoys caricature work” as well as painting “nature, animals, and landscape” imagery in their studio practice. /sf

Being 8 months pregnant will not stop me from doing my best!!!

Berto, a self-taught artist, has a background in comic book art. He has recently delved into sculpting and tattooing, too. In general, Berto's art have a realistic approach. /sf

Dave is a lifelong doodler, former signmaker and editorial cartoonist/satirist, and graphic design teacher. Dave enjoys old school pen and ink, graphic design, cartoons and speed painting with acrylics./sf

Hope to see everyone out at Art Battle regionals! Thanks to everyone who is organizing this event - I get to just show up and have all the fun. Looking forward to seeing the paint fly!