Poppy Balser

@seebo429.bsky.social thanks for the repost, much appreciated !

Shows two artists, Gary McFarland and Poppy Balser with their paintings hanging in the Open Water 2025 exhibition at Teichert Gallery in Halifax.

Shows 5 watercolour paintings on a wall in Teichert Gallery in Halifax, NS. The wall displays the name of the exhibition, Open Water 2025

Shows the sidewalk sign for the Open Water 2025 Exhibition and the entrance of Teichert Gallery on Hollis street in Halifax. The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia banner hangs on the wall in the middle distance.

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

That is one of my favourite sounds

I thought it was a reasonable peanut butter substitute but my kids got tired of it fairly quickly

Open Water 2025 - CSPWC / SCPA 100th OPEN WATERAn International Juried Exhibition in Water MediaExhibition Dates September 11 – October 2, 2025 OPEN WATER 2025 is the 100th Anniversary Juried Exhibition held by the Canadian Society...

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...

Nice work! You’ve really shown volume and transparency here

Watercolour painting of a green seaside meadow dotted with roses. A piece of sun bleached driftwood breaks up the green. An ocean cove is behind the meadow and hazy green trees are behind the cove.

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

Hi Hank, much appreciated, thanks!

Loosely drawn watercolour painting of the patterns of brilliant sunlight reflecting off water in a marina in the evening. The predominant colours are a soft blue with hints of orange to show the brilliance of the sunlight

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

#watercolour #marina #summerscenery #sailboats

Thank you, glad you like it 😊

Thank you kindly!

Thank you! I bet sagebrush would be a challenge. Not only is it brushy but also a very neutral grey green, isn’t it?

Watercolour painting of a gravelly beach stretching into the painting, until it curves out of sight behind the grassy shore. Another small rocky beach on a grassy island shows across a channel. In the distance there are treed hills and a small farmhouse amongst the trees.

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

This is gorgeous!

Will do for sure! There’s an even chance I’ll be in the uk sometime in 2026 but plans are still very nebulous.

I love this painting of Cornwall by @haidee-josummers.bsky.social

I’m hoping to paint there myself someday!

I tried Flashes but with a separate account, and then got busy and haven’t done much with it. I should try again…

A watercolour painting of sunlight glinting off the water in a marina. Docked sailboats face toward the viewer, with sunlight glinting off their decks and lines. A dock leads into the painting from the left toward the boats. The predominant colours are blue of the water and shaded boats, a muted yellow orange on the sunlit water and the docks and a band of green in the background hills/trees.

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

Lovely, Haidee-Jo!

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Shows a very loose watercolour sketch in a sketchbook on an easel. The sketch shows a view of a farm field and house reflecting in calm water, framed by trees with a hazy blue ridge in the distance. The page is dated July 7, 2025

Shows a sketchbook page with a watercolour sketch of a marina, seen across sparky water, under a sky filled with puffy clouds. Inscription at the bottom of the page: “St Peters Marina, July 5, 2025”

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

@brunosevilla.com thank you for reposting

Thank you kindly!

View of an artist’s easel, holding a completed watercolour painting. The painting shows a cluster of trees on a gravel sandbar at the edge of an island. There is green grass in the foreground and driftwood on the shore.

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

Shows a completed watercolour painting on an easel on the seashore at low tide. The painting is of a fishing weir, a structure made of tall poles strung with nets. A weir shows in the distance behind the easel. Location: Partridge Island, Parrsboro, NS

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

Treasures and Collectibles
They’ve got quite the collection of interesting paintable stuff

Have you found the one in upper Granville?

I love yard sales for just that reason!

Photo of an artists easel set up on the coast. There is a completed sketch on the easel. The sketch shows a rocky coast beyond a green meadow with flowers in the foreground. A similar view is visible behind the easel

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

Even though I don’t live in Halifax, I appreciate what you are doing to make this a more liveable city!