Christopher G Marson

More about the daily paintings

By christophermarson October 1, 2018 Gouache, Paintings, Uncategorized 2,722 Comments

I am on number 47 now and find it to be an interesting exercise, I usually do the painting first thing in the morning. they have all been gouache with one watercolour, ( I wanted to try out the Daniel Smith Watercolor ground on my panel). I think that I am learning a lot about gouache and that is a good thing.

I have switched to M Graham gouache for the time being, I find it to be a little more fluid than the Winsor and Newton that I was using. I am also keeping the paint in a sealed plastic pallete box so it is always moist and ready to go when I am ready to paint. (Transon watercolor pallete box, I highly recommend it. I tried to make one of these for myself on a couple of occasions with little success)  Since all the paintings will be 8×6 I also invested in a Guerilla 6×8  thumb box. Being able to pick up the box and go, with everything I need inside it makes life easier as well.

I did put the tripod mount on the box so that I can paint outside. The only extra I need to carry is my water,

 

 

 

 

Daily paintings as a fundraiser for the Dockyard Arts Centre

By christophermarson August 27, 2018 Gouache, Paintings 545 Comments

I have committed to doing an 8″x6″ painting everyday for the next year and will be donating the works to the Centre who will be selling them for $86 each.

All the paintings so far have been gouache on panel and varnished but I am sure that will change as time goes on.

Some of the paintings are on my daily page  on this site and the complete collection is on the Arts Centre site. www.artbermuda.com

Georgia on my mind, SOLD

 

 

Solo show coming up

By christophermarson August 21, 2018 Paintings, Watercolour 455 Comments

I will be having a solo show at Gallery 117 in October. gallery117bda.com It will be my first solo show in about five years, I have done a few two person and small group shows in the interim but most of my time and work has been the dockyard studio.

I will be posting pieces for the show over the next several weeks.  The show will be mostly watercolour, my first love in painting, and some opaques.

Bermuda watercolour 15x22 early morning over the great sound

Early morning over the Little Sound

Bermuda watercolor 22x15 Whale bay beach

The kids are all right

A trip to Boston and Maine, travel sketches

By christophermarson May 22, 2017 Uncategorized 3,658 Comments

Some of my travel sketches, most of them are done in restaurants or when we are waiting for transportation. I name them for the place where they were done and the sketchbooks become travel diaries.

I paint them in Holbein sketchbooks and I use a winsor and newton travel box for my paints with a couple of DaVinci sable travel brushes.

My biggest problem is losing my little water bottle it looks like it belongs on the table and I seem to keep forgetting it.

Its been a while but I have been busy

By christophermarson May 7, 2017 Paintings, Watercolour 22 Comments

I am taking part in a two person show at Masterworks with Rhona Emmerson, Oils for her and Watercolours for me.

These are some of my images.

They are taken from the work I have done over the past year. There seem to be an a lot of marines, it could be that all the boating that is going on up in Dockyard with the Americas Cup programme is having an influence.

 

Casein wonderful but…

By christophermarson August 27, 2016 Uncategorized 95 Comments
dockyard work

Dockyard work, Casein 10″x 8″ SOLD

Setting the nets, Casein 10"x 8" SOLD

Setting the nets, Casein 10″x 8″ SOLD

Casein 10"x8" SOLD

Westerly waves, Casein 10″x 8″ SOLD

Casein 22"x30" $1200

Setting for Bait Casein 22″x30″ $1200

Unfortunately after nearly a year of working with it I came out in hives, I didn’t even know what they were at first but I certainly didn’t like having red itchy bumps allover my elbow pits. After a month of trying various remedies I saw the word casein and hives in the same sentence in an online post about supplements for body builders (go google). A light went on, and when I stopped using casein the hives went away.

I had just purchased a substantial quantity of  paint when I made the discovery, so I was fortunate to find a fellow painter who was interested enough to purchase it from me.

So its back to gouache for my opaque work.

I like gouache and it has some wonderful qualities but I miss my casein