Just a great day painting :)
Sometimes there’s not much to say about a painting except, wow, I had a great time with this one.
Two months ago USK:MTL was out at the botanical garden for our monthly meetup. I ended up wandering off on my own and finding this pond with some slightly out of season water lilies.
It was incredibly nice painting weather. When it’s hot and dry with a nice breeze? Perfect for my kind of wet-on-dry watercolor. The paint get’s whiny if it’s humid. On a hot dry day you can easily work in layers. Less waiting around for paper to dry.
I feel like a dedicated painter would haul their gear out into the hinterlands and find some amazing vista. But sometimes you can just have a great day painting in a park at home. I was just having fun watching the fish, dragon flies and these cute turtles paddling around the pond.
Fingers crossed to get a few more of these days as we head into second summer!
~m
Citizen Sketcher 
Love your great day painting. Can’t wait for you to be in Pawleys Island and share your talent with the SCWS group. Brenda Lawson, President SCWS
Gorgeous!
Great painting-love the closeup of the turtle. What size is this?
Half sheet – or close to it – 15×22 ish
And thanks!
Mark it’s gorgeous.The colors:)
Love it. Good job!!
Totally mesmerizing! The magic of that day just leaps right off your sketch and enters the eye of the reader. I usually call this a “kodak moment”, but in this case, a plein air moment to be long remembered. Thrilled that I got to enter your world vicariously for that magic moment. Thank you Marc.
Love the colours! As always you know how to capture the feeling.
The joy shines through. I agree with Nancy, Gayle and Monique: the colours are fabulous.
Those colors absolutely slay me! Love this!
Yeah man to all the above (from a woman of few words)!
I love this, well done it’s fantastic x
Your happiness shines through this lovely painting, capturing the light and ever changing foliage. Great to see your work evolving , Marc and thanks for reminding me that everyday life is worth painting and it’s right on our doorstep.
Stunning work – brilliant!
It totally shows – WOW! I want to paint like that one day.
Beautiful work. I’d love to know your process. It looks like there’s a rough pencil sketch underneath. Then, did you paint from light to dark? (I’m a beginner – took both your Craftsy classes).
Thats right Sharon – loose sketch, as simple as possible, then painting larger to smaller, lighter to darker, wetter to dryer :)
Thanks, Marc!
Lovely happy painting :)
Very lively capture.Dancing of brushes and colors are completely in sync.A perfect show.Thank you Marc for sharing.
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It must take a lot of time making all these detalj.
The painting is really Great!
Wow, this is beautiful! I would like to ask, How… But I can see this one came straight from the eye of your heart. Beautiful capture, colors, everything. Thanks so much for sharing
Your granma would have been very proud of you.
Gorgeous!!
Also, glad you put a link to the Montreal Urban Sketchers Event. I signed up for the emails for that blog, but doesn’t seem to work.
Happy Painting Marc. You’re work is very inspiring!!
Nora MacPhail
This is spectacular! I really love how delicate the colors look. Wow. You are my hero.
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Oh, my God, it’s wondeful!! The combination of colours you used is perfect. You had a lot of work, but it was absolutely worth it!
such a fantastic painting!
I have watched your video from ArtistNetwork which is also wonderful! thanks so much for sharing those with us ^-^
BTW, a question about brush: Do you like the #14 Escoda Reserva Kolinsky-tajmyr sable? How does it compare to the #3 Da vinci Artissimo 428 mop? I see you used both of them, just wondering which is better, because I want to switch to sable brush. Thanks in advance! Look forward to your next painting!
Oops deleted my own comment by accident! Anyway – thanks for the kind words :) Great to hear from someone watching the artist network stuff. That doesn’t get as much AirPlay as the Craftsy classes usualy :)
So, as far as the brushes, they’re both great – I would just get whatever I could find locally for the best price. It’s hard sometimes to get exactly what you want. Sable never seems to be reliably in stock. At least in Canada. And I don’t order brushes online as I like to try before I buy :) Feel the spring and test the points
Just stick with real sable and you probably won’t go wrong with any of the hand made brands – Escoda, DaVinci, Winsor and Newton or Holbein, Rosemary and Co, etc.
Really lovely paintings.