The Open Water 2025 watercolour exhibition I have been working on for months is now open at Teichert Gallery on Hollis St, in Halifax. The show will be up until October 2. For #Halisky fans of #watercolour, this exhibition is well worth a visit! #Canadianart #maritimeartists #halifaxart

In my role as exhibition Co-Chair: The 100th anniversary international watercolour exhibition of the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour is open at Teichert Gallery in Halifax, NS. This undertaking took months and many hands. Check it out: Open Water 2025 cspwc.ca/open-water-2...

I painted this while surrounded by the sea on one side and a sea of roses on the other. The roses were in full bloom and their scent enveloped me as I worked. It was lovely. “Coming Up Roses” 9x12 inch #pleinair #watercolor #summerlandscape #seaside #flowersonfriday

“The Setting Sun Moves Quickly” 9x12” watercolour, painted on location last month, at St Peter’s Marina in Cape Breton . #watercolour #marina #summerscenery #sailboats

Here is a recent plein air painting from my Cape Breton trip: “Sandbars, Islands and Sunshine” 9x12 inches, #watercolour The Bras d’Or Lakes are dotted with many small islands that curve around protected anchorages. We were anchored nearby and I went ashore to paint. #BrasdOrLakes #CapeBreton

I love this painting of Cornwall by @haidee-josummers.bsky.social I’m hoping to paint there myself someday!

I just love painting the way light lays a trail over water. If there is an interesting background, so much the better! “Evening Marina” 9x12” painted on location in St. Peter’s, Cape Breton, NS

For those painters and sketchers in constant search for the perfect travelling sketching kit/paint box, check out the Lintner Modular Paint Box, just launched today! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lin... I am looking forward to trying it out!

I cracked open a new sketchbook for this trip. Here are a couple of pages. I use my sketchbook to test out ideas and document where we’ve been. #sketching #watercolour #capebreton

I’m in Cape Breton, exploring the Bras d’Or lakes by boat and with paintbrush in hand.

I was in Parrsboro, NS, last week and did some painting while I was there. This is a fishing weir, a once common sight along the shores of the Bay of Fundy, now there are very few left. #fishingweir #bayoffundy #pleinair #watercolour #art

Flowers on Friday Yesterday I spent the day on #BrierIsland sketching Beach roses and beach peas are in bloom #flowersonfriday #floralfriday #pleinair

We have a @poppybalser.bsky.social original at our school's spring fair silent auction

I’ve been enjoying watching spring unfurl around me, painting lots of #appleblossoms among other things This is an #oilpainting from this morning, from #gravesislandprovincialpark I like it when the painting lines up with reality and it fits, more or less, except for where the tide went out.

Two plein air gouache sketches of my driveway. I love it in spring when the wild trees bloom in profusion. The first sketch was an under painting that I never finished (weather). The second one is a completed painting of the same scene, showing backlit flowers and new leaves. Both 9x12”.

I’m practicing at painting the delicate glow of #springsunshine on and through new leaves #watercolour #art Here’s the view from my easel this morning:

Sailing season is beginning here in NS, so here’s some classic Bluenose class sailing boats, as seen during a race last summer “Bluenose Flock” 9x12” watercolour #art #watercolour #bluenose

“Adjusting the Lines” 12x16” oil painting For the #blueskyartshow this week the theme is #lines

This is wild and beautiful

Here’s a bracing seascape, for those in need of a visual refresher today. ‘Inward Rush of the Tide’ 10x20” oil painting #rockintuesday #painting #seascape

New painting of some tall ships i watched on a trip in the fall. #watercolour #marineart #tallships

Canadian women, this is a must read: vajenda.substack.com/p/dear-canad... #cdnpoli #canada

It’s not beach weather yet but we can see there from here. Looking forward to summer. Enjoy your weekend! #sunnysaturday #pleinairpainting #novascotia

Happy Earth Day! “Evening Light on Water and Stone” 8x10” plein air gouache For my Canadian followers, please consider the fate of our environment and climate when you go out to vote. #earthday #elxn2025

Happy Easter. 🐤 Chick. Watercolour on Fabriano Medioevalis, painted image approximately 55 mm tall. From 2021.

This one was just plain fun to paint. “Ospreys Make a New Home” 8x6” plein air gouache. These ospreys were building at the top of an abandoned crane. Watching the choice of nesting materials was interesting: Sometimes sticks, other times clumps of mud and weeds. #birdwatching #ospreys

A #nocturne painting inspired by being stuck in traffic. The brightly lit exterior of the Dilly Dally Cafe in #Halifax caught my eye the other night when stopped at a traffic light. I loved the play of red and cool turquoise. “Dilly Dally in the Evening” 9x12” #watercolour

This is spot on.

“"I would say to every Canadian … be looking up the voting records of whoever you're voting for in the upcoming election and see how they have voted on bills related to reproductive rights. If they voted to take your reproductive rights away, they're going to vote to take other rights away as well."

Here’s a small warm up sketch trying out some new oil paint colours from @mhpaints.bsky.social “Wave Highlights” 6x6” oil painting.

Because the CBC puts public service ahead of private profit. It tells Canadian stories—whether billionaires like them or not. If you believe Canada deserves a voice that works for the people, not the powerful, now’s the time to fight for it. Vote strategically to #SaveTheCBC #CdnPoli #elbowsup

Here’s a recent watercolour painting of shrimp boats from the MillCove docks in Apalachicola, FL Done on location over 3 or maybe 4 evenings, I lost count. #pleinair #fishingboats #boatsinharbour

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Vanessa Barragão, Portuguese textile artist known for large-scale hangings inspired by ecosystems like coral reefs, using upcycled waste materials from the textile industry #WomensArt

In this season especially, hope springs eternal. Here’s what I’m working on today, not yet finished Spring snow drops in a blue pitcher May all those out protesting today stay safe. #blue #blues #workinprogress

“Wind Marks” 16x20”, wc, was painted on location in the village of Windmark on a very windy day. My panel bounced with the gusts, sometimes making for let’s-call-them-spontaneous-instead-of-accidental brushstrokes. So I called the painting Wind Marks. #pleinairwatercolour #landscape

I am an artist so I post pictures of my work bc I figure we can all use a break on here sometimes. But I also care about things like democracy and journalistic freedom, so sometimes I will post about those things too. If you want paintings only, follow me here: @poppybalserart.bsky.social

Following @ctvnews-rss.bsky.social craven cancelling of @rachelgilmore.bsky.social ‘s election fact checking segment it is good news we will have other opportunities to hear from her.

This is deeply alarming behaviour on the part of @ctvnews-rss.bsky.social I’ve written their ombudsman. You can too, here: [email protected]

I just heard my first spring peeper of the year — in the middle of the day no less 🐸

Here’s a nighttime painting from a couple of years ago. I still like the simplicity of it. #watercolour #nocturne #moonrise

This is a tiny painting (6x6”), of wildflowers and a wind sculpted evergreen. I painted it in the studio after sketching it on location in watercolour. I loved how the tree is at the very edge of the land, with the ocean washing the shore mere feet away at high tide

I appreciate @suzannerent.bsky.social of the @halifaxexaminer.ca bringing a beautifully written article about women’s bathrooms to my attention. www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...

News: this painting of mine has been juried into the Oil Painters of America 34th National Exhibition of Traditional Oils “Yawl Come Along Now” 12x16” #oilpainting #marineart #sailing #oilpaintersofamerica

Did I tell you I also paint in gouache? “Back Harbour Silhouettes “ 9x12 inch plein air gouache

Happy Spring! I painted this a year ago today, working on it over two mornings, starting on the last day of winter, finishing it on the first day of spring “A Pink Lighter than Air” 16x20” watercolour

I paint in watercolours and oils Here’s a recent oil painting I named “Iridescence” because of the opal-like shimmering colours in the mist and foam 14x21” #oilpainting #seascape #ocean #seascapepainting #saltwater #seashore

Here is a peek at my studio workspace showing my palette, some brushes and all the studies and planning stages that can go into making a painting. #artiststudio The larger painting at the front of the desk is 18x24” and will be my Masters Gallery painting at the Forgotten Coast en Plein air.

This might be the last snow painting I post this year. I painted this in my driveway, on a snowy day in late February. #watercolour #pleinairpainting #winterwoodland

From a weekend in the fall, painted on location in Rockport, MA: “Rockport Promenade” 9x12” gouache