1 Week : 100 People
By Marc Taro Holmes in Montreal, QC A while I gave myself a challenge to draw 100 people in a 5 days. I carried a small
Breaking news: Landmark victory for victims of the tobacco industry in Quebec!
By Marc Taro Holmes in Montreal, QC I made these sketches last winter, while observing the Blais-Létourneau tobacco trials here in Montreal. You may check
Spring in the Cemetery
By Marc Taro Holmes in Montreal, QC At the time of writing, it’s been a very dry spring. It’s looking more like second fall around
One Day : One Sketchbook : The Plateau Panoramas
By Marc Taro Holmes in Montreal, QC This past May Day was the first alignment of great weather and time off I’ve had in Montreal
Speed Painting at Vizcaya Gardens Miami
By Marc Taro Holmes in Miami, FL, Near the end of our recent Florida cruise we had a free day in South Beach Miami. Not
I could get used to living in Key West
By Marc Taro Holmes in Key West, FL From my perspective, looking out my window at five foot snowbanks, the town of Key West is
Saint Patrick Preserve Us!
By Marc Taro Holmes in Montreal, QC, CA This past Sunday was Montreal’s St. Patrick’s day parade. Unfortunately for us, it was an inhospitable -8
Sketching the Florida Intracoastal: Part Two – the Paintings
By Marc Taro Holmes in Montreal, QC, CA Carrying on from Part One: the Moleskine – here’s the paintings from our cruise down the Florida
Sketching the Florida Intracoastal: Part One – the Moleskine Sketchbook
By Marc Taro Holmes, in Miami, FL We’re just back from Florida, travelling by boat down the Intracoastal Waterway. Which is one of many things in
Insdie Smith and Barber Sculpture Atelier
By Marc Taro Holmes in Ottawa, ON, CA The other day my friend John Wright called up from Ottawa. His drawing group had lined up
iPad sketching “Marvels of Orientalism” at MTL Beaux Arts
By Marc Taro Holmes in Montreal, QC, CA Right now through May 31st, at the Montreal Beaux Arts there is a major show on Orientalist painting (Marvels
It’s all about Class Struggle innit?
By Marc Taro Holmes in Montreal, QC, CA In a previous USK:MTL outing we went to the Beaux Arts for some indoor sketching. There’s a
