#30×30 Day 29 : Rousseau, the Snake Charmer
I’m winding up this small set of artist portraits with Henri Rousseau. I much prefer that he stayed home and painted fantasies of the jungles, instead of following Gauguin and going out to live them....
View Article96,840 Paintings! #30×30 2021
Here’s some random stats about the group this year: 4517 Total Members / 3228 Active Members < I think that’s a pretty great ratio of readers to contributors!.96,840 Paintings! < That’s what it...
View ArticleBest in Show!
Exciting news to report! My painting “The World has Appetites of its Own”, (Oil on canvas, 30×60″), has won the Antoinette Stevens Award for Best in Show at the Society of Canadian Artists 53d Open...
View Article#OneWeek100People: Day 02 -The Moving Crew
Here’s another little film for Day Two of #OneWeek100People! There’s a few neat things I want to show here. The most important is – to be ready to sketch at any time! But also – be on the lookout for...
View ArticleThe Dog Walker : #OneWeek100People Day 03 Part Two
Please enjoy a bonus video! The Dog Walker :) This is a watercolor silhouette sketch, done from a cellphone photo snapped out my living room window. This dog is one of our new neighbors I think. They...
View ArticleHigh Vis Jackets : #OneWeek100People Day 03 Part One
Please enjoy a #OneWeek100People video-sketch of some working men in high visibility winter parkas. This was painted from a shot out the car window, driving home one February afternoon. Typical...
View Article#OneWeek100People – Day 04 – Subway Sketching!
Tomorrow is the official LAST DAY! of #OneWeek100People – but of course you can use the weekend to finish off. How many of you are going to hit 100? Did you keep up with 20 a day? or maybe you plan to...
View ArticleSpicy Ramen! Day 05 – #OneWeek100People 2022!
Here’s a silly self portrait of me at our local noodle house Kinton Ramen. It’s probably my favorite self-portrait so far. Even if it doesn’t look very much like me :) I think it looks a bit like my...
View ArticleSome good news! Three paintings accepted to the Society of Canadian Artists
[ I Painted This Place, It’s Mine Now, 10×10″ Cold Wax, Marble Dust, Oil on Panel, 2020. $250.00 ] Details Pleased to say, three of my impasto oils have been accepted to the Society of Canadian...
View ArticleUrban Sketchers : Quartier des Spectacles (ish)
USK Montreal organized a spring meetup at Quartier des Spectacles, the center of our downtown arts district. I apologize, I didn’t actually draw the square, but we took a brisk photo walk in the zero...
View Article#30x30Direct Watercolor – Free Online Event Coming in June!
Hey all! I’m sending you the first reminder about #30x30DirectWatercolor – the annual event where we work together to make thirty paintings in thirty days. < Follow the link for info on how to...
View ArticleWant to listen into a chat about Online Art Events?
I little while back I was chatting with Nishant Jain of Sneaky Artist, home of the Sneaky Artist Podcast, in which we talked about his event Thirty Days of Vancouver. It’s a rambling discussion that...
View ArticlePainting en plein air, around Bay Saint Paul
It’s been a few weeks since our plein-air painting trip to Bay St. Paul. (Just a bit downstream from Quebec City). Here’s a few of the good ones. This is Grands-Jardins National Park. Painted from,...
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