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Day Seven : #30x30DirectWatercolor : Missed Day!
[ Blue Mansard House. 8×8″ Watercolor on Cotton Paper. Found Photo @Archi.ologie ] Didn’t paint today! Just stuff going on. Here’s one that was lying around. ~m
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Day Eight : #30x30DirectWatercolor : Back to Basics : Black and White Miniatures
Day eight: It’s going ok. I’m happy, and the work is happening, but – I’m not excited enough yet. Can’t quite put my finger on what I’m hoping for – except – I want to get back to the feeling of...
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Day Nine : #30x30DirectWatercolor : More Studies
Day Nine: Quebec City Nothing to see here except some sketches that aren’t as good as yesterday! Tomorrow we’ll start posting our second video critique! Looking back right now, I have no idea why I...
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Day 10: Part one of our second video-chat. Marc crits Uma! As always, feel free to post questions! ~m
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Day Eleven: Second half of Crit#2- Uma Crits Marc. Enjoy! ~m
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Day 12 : #30x30DirectWatercolor : Return to Rio!
Day 12: What can I say about this one hey? I like it! I mean – I’m back in my happy place. It took a week of pushing paint, but I’m feeling the flow. The return to fluency with the brush. And the...
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Day 13 : #30x30DirectWatercolor : Havana
I painted this alley in Havana because of that guy carrying the fridge. At the time Laurel took this photo, I was drawing the dome in the distance. We’ve had this urban sketching photo in the archives...
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Day 14 : #30x30DirectWatercolor : Skip Day!
[ The North Remembers, 10×10″ Oil on Panel ] Didn’t Paint Today! Here’s an old one! I initially thought what I was doing with my impasto oil paintings was completely different than my watercolors....
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Day 16 : #30x30DirectWatercolor : Cortona Redux
Day 16: A side street in Cortona, Italy. This one is intersting – because I can show you the painting I made on location, back in 2015. Fascinating how different the color is eh? Is that due to...
View ArticleDay 17 : #30x30DirectWatercolor : Video Crit! #3, Part 1 : Uma Crits Marc
Day Seventeen: Our third chat – Uma Crits Marc at the halfway (ish) point in the marathon! ~m
View ArticleDay 18 : #30x30DirectWatercolor : Video Crit! #3, Part 2 : Marc Crits Uma
Day Eighteen! Here’s our chat about Uma’s paintings at the halfway point. As with all of these – thanks for anyone who’s interested enough to watch our un-edited conversations. I hope some people find...
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Day 19 : #30x30DirectWatercolor : Lisbon Train Station
Day 19: There’s a reliable pattern to a painting marathon. You start out tentative, maybe a little rusty. You push through some bad ones, some exercises, and suddenly there’s a peak – (a little too...
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Day 20 : #30x30DirectWatercolor : Rooftops of Lisbon
Day 20: Rooftops of Lisbon I think it might not get better than this :) This is the winner. If you’re allowed to call your own paintings winners. Of course, I’m looking back with the benefit of...
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Day 21 : #30x30DirectWatercolor : Cormorant Fisherman
Day 21: Cormorant Fisherman I was looking at all of my urban sketching reference material and thinking. Nope. Nothing here is not going to beat that rooftops painting. (Day 20). Maybe I’m over-blowing...
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Day 22 : #30x30DirectWatercolor : Found Photo : Abstraction
Day 22: Problem Solving So I’m dealing with this mandate: Dark. Abstract. Cinematic. I found this photo in a street photography forum. Apologies to u/wannabenomads. This kind of thing – with all the...
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Book Review: Hand Drawn Vancouver, by Emma FitzGerald
I have here in my hand a copy of Emma Fitzgerald’s third book, Hand Drawn Vancouver. <– affilate link, thx. (151pp, Appetite / Pengin Random House, $US19.95/$CDN24.97). When Emma asked if I’d take...
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Day 23 : #30x30DirectWatercolor : Found Photo : Late Night Ramen
Day 23: Another exercise in abstraction. I’ve turned the people into the simplest possible shapes, then built up everything around them in a mosaic of strokes. Here’s the photo. Also found on the web,...
View ArticleDay 24 : #30x30DirectWatercolor : Final Crit! (#4, Part 1) : Uma Crits Marc
Day 24! – Thanks for following along this far – and welcome to the finish line! Here’s the first half of our series of video-critiques. In this, I’m showing my final projects – and tomorrow we’ll post...
View ArticleDay 25 : #30x30DirectWatercolor : Final Crit! (#4, Part 2) : Uma Shows Her...
Day 25: This is it! The last – and very best segment of our art-chat-series. I was really amazed with what Uma showed us and I’m super excited to share these with you. Click the video – don’t wait!...
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Day 26 : #30x30DirectWatercolor : Market Day in Siem Reap
Day 26: Market Day in Siem Reap. After the last two found photos, I felt ready to take on these market scenes from our trip to Cambodia. The combination of the dark silhouettes and the jumbled...
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