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#30×30 Day 04 : Cloud Shadows
I think, this time, I forgot what it was I liked about the subject. Here is The Watercolor vs. The Photo vs. The Oil Painting. In today’s watercolor (on the left) I’ve accidentally emphasized the hill...
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#30×30 Day 05 : Death Valley, Nocturne
Ok this is something. This is something. It’s a bit early yet at Day Five – but this might be my favorite of the year. We shall see! Whenever we are in the area (which, I have no idea when that will...
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#30×30 Day 06 : Green as Broken Glass
These sea-green shallows are from a rocky beach in California. My ‘inspiration oil’ is one of my very early impasto paintings, painted in 2017 after visiting the Algarve in Portugal. We were there a...
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#30×30 Day 07 : The Wandering Path
I didn’t have a specific painting for inspiration this time, more like, a kind of composition I find myself returning to. This is a classic device – the idea of shaping the landscape to make a...
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#30×30 Day 08 : Day in the Park!
We’re just back from a day sketching in the park with our old friend Shari Blaukopf! It’s been at least 450 days since our lockdown began, and longer still since we’ve had a chance to sketch together....
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#30×30 Day 09 : Dry Brush, Arizona
Today ends up being a study in making vegetation out of wet-on-dry brush marks. And also, ways to use color and value to break up shapes and revise lighting. I’ve often said, you need to change color,...
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#30×30 Day 10 : Winter Blues
Here’s a change of pace! April in Quebec! I’ve been painting all these landscapes of New Mexico, Arizona, California – because these are the sorts of places you go when you’re escaping Canada in the...
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#30×30 Day 11 : The Road to Minimalism
This piece was started on Day 09 (you can probably tell) but I went back and finished it today. I was looking back at photos of Baie St. Paul, and I thought – this one is a great example of leading...
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#30×30 Day 14 : Best of Both, Worlds Apart
As much as I enjoyed making those previous winter scenes – I was also a little – I don’t know, bored (?) with the results after a few days. Looking back – sure, they were made in watercolor, but they...
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#30×30 Day 15 : Boiling it down to the Essence
I started in here with the goal: What can I do with watercolor, that I couldn’t do in any other media? This one is all about pouring on premixed colors. And, when I say pouring, I don’t really mean...
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#30×30 Day 16 : #NoMakeup
So I’ve just finished a little digital tweaking on this one. Ok – maybe more than a little :) This is what the original painting looks like. This is the result of a complete miscalculation on my part....
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#30×30 Day 18 : In the Fog of Art
Here is another experiment in my quest for watery effects! I’m not sure how much there is to say about this :) It’s in some ways a very simple painting. Almost no color, and almost no drawing. Just a...
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#30×30 Day 19 : Black Hills, White Water
I’ve been saving this one. I’ve been looking at this one for ages wanting to try it in watercolor, but held off until I felt ‘tuned up’. It was worth the wait! I feel like this one is the best example...
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#30×30 Day 20 : Glide Your Fingers Through Granite, He Said
And here on Day 20, we are now up to date with my artistic production! This is the watercolor derivation of my very-most-recent oil painting, Glide your Fingers Though Granite, He Said which,...
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#30×30 Day 22 : Gone Sketchin’
Took the day off from all the thought provoking art-making to go sketching with Shari Blaukof! We had about the best weather you could ask for. It was such an amazing day, everybody going by was in an...
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#30×30 Day 23 : The Great YUPO Experiment
Two Kimono – Watercolor on Yupo, 20×26″ I’ve just recently made two pieces for an upcoming show, Beyond the Edge, which is a proposed exhibition by the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolor with...
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#30×30 Day 24 : Be Like Water
Hey all! Back for another day with the material YUPO. It really is amazing how much flow you get from this synthetic surface. Once you grasp that in fact the water will continue to flow down to the...
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#30×30 Day 25 : Van Gogh and Gauguin, in Their Own Words
“There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it. And the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.” “Real painters do not paint things as they are, they paint them as...
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#30×30 Day 26 : Francis Bacon, on Art
“In my case all painting… is an accident. I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint. I don’t in fact know very often what the paint will...
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#30×30 Day 27 : Gauguin, the Colonizer
I came across this rather horrifying picture of Gauguin, and felt I had to leave a few more of his own words next to this painting. “All the joys—animal and human—of a free life are mine. I have...
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