With a steady hand and a high center of gravity, 16, tells Joel Jamieson his brush in the Canadian Maple Leaf.
The painting of the young artist is a bicycle helmet.
Canadian cyclist Monique Sullivan brings Jamieson work this summer when attending the Pan American Games in Toronto.
It is a feat in itself that Jamieson was here, in his home in northwest Calgary, healthy enough to take on a project of this kind. Last year, he underwent a kidney transplant. Before that, he spent four hours a day to dialysis in a hospital.
"It was just to torment, it was a very hard, a little difficult to look at a normal life," Jamieson who loves nature and sports, said.
The transplant has changed all that. "Everything is different, new life, new opportunities."
An opportunity came when Helmets for Heroes, a charity program will connect with Sullivan.
Olympic champion and Pan Am took the opportunity to work with Jamieson and bring their work to this year's Pan American Games. "It is really special to me, put it in the race and to bring the community together," she said during a break from training at the velodrome Mattamy National Cycling Centre in Milton, Ontario.
Kelsey Fraser (left) Joel Jamieson (center) and the Pan American Games cyclist Monique Sullivan (right) working on illustrations for the hull Sullivan. (Submitted)
"It brings more sense for me to run, beyond what the results will be at the end."
"Great way '
Helmets for Heroes was he brought to life by Canadian skier Brad Spence in 2013 trained to participate in the Olympic Games in Sochi, when he visited the Alberta Children's Hospital and Gillian O'Blenes-Kaufman, who was met battled osteosarcoma, Cancer that begins in bone.
"I thought Gillian amazing artistic talent Oddly, everyone around Gillian saw the talent, except for her." Victoria Spence told CBC News.
Their friendship grew and Spence wanted to find a way to get him sick teenager in Sochi. He convinced her to paint his impressive work in his helmet.
O'Blenes-Kaufman died at the age of 18, just nine months after Spence decorated helmet.
Helmets for heroes to live in because of it, Spence said. "This is certainly a heritage that gave birth to all this, and I am proud to wear the badge on his chest."
"This is certainly a heritage that gave birth to the whole thing." - Gillian alpine skier Brad Spence O'Blenes-Kaufman
The day of the funeral of O'Blenes-Kaufman, Sam Edney slid his way into the history of Canadian sports helmet carrying the second did for Helmets for Heroes.
Edney is the first Canadian to win a World Cup luge men.
He wore a helmet of Richard Flamenco, teenager suffering from a rare disease, painful skin designed and painted.
Edney said the power of the city he felt "unstoppable". Flamenco brought to the podium to share his gold medal.
Sam Edney heroes helmets to ride to the top of the podium
Jamieson Sullivan hopes inspiration throughout her career Pan American Cycling helmet painted by myself.
He works with Kelsey Fraser, a professional artist, the younger artists who supervised heroes program in helmets. "Art can to encourage people to do great things," he said. "It will be interesting to see to Monique's experience and with the hull as you feel."
It is certainly identifiable as Racing Sullivan in Toronto. The trio for a design with the Rocky Mountains as a backdrop to represent the strength and Sullivan, the hometown of Calgary.
Lynchpin in the city is a maple leaf with flames.
What they are not so easily as two secret words hidden in the flames. But Sullivan decides to reveal it. "Love and joy are my two secret words. The joy makes me a bit back that a child to ride a bike. It all comes down to love."
All helmets are auctioned hero after the competition. Proceeds go to the Children's Hospital of Alberta, where he dealt with young artists.
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