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2024 #30×30 Day 27: Redux
10×10″ Oil on Panel. Ok – so I just painted today’s painting again. A Redux, as they say. Trying to focus on working fast, loading tools, and painting thick. Laughably thick. There’s three thick...
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2024 #30×30 Day 29
10×10″ Oil on Panel. I think it’s clear what I’m doing with this series, which is choosing big huge views that are wide enough and vast enough to remove any specific details. They’re an abstraction of...
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2024 #30×30 Day 30! Crossing the Finish Line!
10×10″ Oil on Panel. Crossing the finish line! Sad that it’s the end, but also kind of ready for a break:) Uma Kelkar and I launched #30×30 on a whim seven years ago. Because we think it’s a great...
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Le Dépanneur
Do you know the Quebecois word “Dépanneur”? It’s from the verb dépanner meaning ‘to fix’ or ‘to repair’, so a dépanneur is a handyman, and a dépanneuse is a tow truck. < Ahh, gender in French....
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Olmec: People of Stone
My buddy might be moving to Japan! So we decided to get in one more sketching outing before he heads off. (Actually he’ll be back, it’s only a scouting trip for now, but soon!) I’m impressed with his...
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Viger Station:
The Montreal Urban Sketchers met up the other day at Viger Square, a newly renovated park between the historic Viger Station (built in 1898 and named after Jacques Viger, the first Mayor of Montreal)...
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Big Update on our Etsy Shop
It’s always fun to be able to say, “I just sold an original watercolor!” We’ve recently updated our Etsy Shop, to include one hundred original watercolor sketches, and this was the first to sell :)...
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A Sketch for the King
Bantry House, County Cork, Ireland, 15 x 22″ Watercolor on Cotton Rag, Fabriano Artistico. This painting is a redux, sized up to half-sheet (15×22″) working from my own quarter-sheet sketch (11×15″),...
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An Oddity from me, and a Postal Strike!
Here’s an Oddity from me. But first a quick announcement; The Canadian postal service is on a nation wide strike as of today! So we’ll be temporarily closing out our ETSY shop. I’ll let you know when...
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International Self Portrait Day is Not Today!
International Self Portrait Day is November 1st. < Not today. I can’t seem to find who started the ‘official day’, or if it has a home online. I don’t think so? It seems to be just a meme that...
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2024 #30×30 Day 27 : The Wrong Painting
10×10″ Oil on Panel Stepping back for a minute to discuss this objectively; this one is a miss-step in my series. It’s important to choose images / compositions that support my vision. It’s not just a...
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#OneWeek100People : Coming March 3, 2025 – Also Big Changes This Year! Please...
It’s happening again, Monday March 3, 2025 – time again for our annual street-sketching marathon, #OneWeek100People! < See the past years events here! ] This is, of course, our fun activity where...
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Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolor : 100th Year Anniversary show :...
This year is the 100th year for the venerable old CSPWC, which is kind of a big deal. I was excited to apply for the 2025 member’s exhibition, but, unfortunately, I have been soundly rejected!...
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#OneWeek100People, 2025 Day 01
Hey everybody! It’s March! 2025! I’m somewhat shocked to note this is the 9th year of #OneWeek100People. This means *next* year is kind of a big deal. There’s very very very few things in life I’ve...
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OneWeek100People, 2025 Day 02
So, last couple Marathon’s I made a big deal about getting 100 in a day. But honestly; I don’t really do ink drawings any more? Like simple pen line, or anything monochromatic. I fished out the dip...
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OneWeek100People, 2025 Day 03
Come on right? The light on that bike rack was like being in a Christopher Nolan movie. I do this marathon every year to remind myself what I love about street sketching. Keep moving and make your own...
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Bonus Day! #OneWeek100People 2025 : Day 04
It’s always great when you finish your 100 and you can goof around for the rest of the marathon :) I was looking around for fun things to draw, and found this exhibition Dressing up History at the...
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#OneWeek100People, Day 05, 2025
Thanks everyone who participated! I hope y’all had a great time, I hope y’all did some drawings you’re excited about, and I hope you spent some time sketching with friends! Next year will be the TENTH...
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