irises ought be out now lining the banks of the saugeen river as thick as parade watchers waiting for the queen to float by; need to get up and soon; a number of years ago we went out at night during a full moon and sketched what was lit up by moonlight and came back the next day and worked out the rest of the shoreline of irises that had been hidden in the dark….

1. moonlit irises, saugeen river 26″ x 40″ watercolour on arches paper
   2. moonlit irises, saugeen river 26″ x 34″ watercolour on arches paper
   3. moonlit irises, saugeen river 20″ x 40″ watercolour on arches paper
   4. moonlit irises, saugeen river 26″ x 40″ watercolour on arches paper
   5. moonlit irises, saugeen river 22″ x 30″ watercolour and pastel on arches paper
   6. moonlit irises, saugeen river 22″ x 28″ watercolour on arches paper

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marilyn Woolston Beautiful Micheal! I love kayaking along the shoreline and seeing the water irises.

Micheal Zarowsky replied · 1 Reply

Micheal Zarowsky no kayak so we just rubber boot it trying to avoid the pesticides leeching from the farm fields into the river oh and snapping turtles, always trying to avoid the snapping turtles

Mari Jo DeWaal These all are just lovely!

Randy Faulds replied · 6 Replies

Micheal Zarowsky fun times from a while back / looking to see what else i can do with them

Randy Faulds Hey Micheal do you still have #5 in this collection?

Micheal Zarowsky Randy Faulds no… but i could work something out either on paper or panel along those lines….

Randy Faulds Micheal Zarowsky I will try to drop by one of your shows this summer Micheal. Love your work.

Micheal Zarowsky Randy Faulds city hall – july 6 – 8 booth c-237 just 150 feet north off queen n bay – and of course you are always welcome to pop by the studio – just call ahead to make sure we are in

Randy Faulds Micheal Zarowsky thanks Micheal. See you soon.

Patricia Gullage STUNNINGLY SPECTACULAR.

Micheal Zarowsky replied · Micheal Zarowsky there is magic after dark along the river, especially when the moon is full

Cathy Groulx Your compositions are always perfect. Keep on painting!!

Micheal Zarowsky thanks Cathy, ma nature is the source, Wendy and i just touch on some of what is there to be found

Cathy Groulx Well I love the way you interrpret what she places out there!

Micheal Zarowsky thanks Cathy, it is just so neat to be able to be out there and experience the world after dark, and for us so difficult to be able to try n express it in // thru paint, so when we saw the effects of moonlight on the irises and water, it just blew us away n we just had to find a way to work it out

James V. Chism I never know when to say “ best” because your work makes my jaw drop every time…..I am tempted to say “now” but then tomorrow will come. I love this series.

Micheal Zarowsky replied · Micheal Zarowsky thanks James, i never think best, rather work on / towards being consistent, so that any difference perceived in the works becomes a personal choice, i think the moonlit wild irises are powerful pieces expressive of a magical few nights of full moon down by the river / even the bugs stayed away

James V. Chism Micheal Zarowsky they are almost spiritual.

Micheal Zarowsky thanks James, we like to think there is a spiritual element in all our works

Manon Beaute These look so real to me very beautiful

Manon Beaute I will add its hard to believe these are watercolor !! Look like oil painting .. my only regret is not being able to actually see them !!

Micheal Zarowsky allergic to oils, tried once to paint with water based oils, only to realize after working gout an idea that the thinking / painting process was still along watercolour lines, so what was the point..and without sounding arrogant or anything, the way i approach and use watercolours is unlike / goes beyond, most watercoclour painters

Manon Beaute agreed i have to hand it to you watercolor is not an easy medium. You are an artist with great talent . Thank you for sharing your work it is very impressive !!

Micheal Zarowsky thanks… it is 2nd nature now so i don’t have to think about it…no wait that’s not true i do have to think about it – it never gets any easier cause as i come to understand anything concerning it i take on more and more difficult ideas to work thru….

Lindy Usher Beautiful!

Micheal Zarowsky replied ·  thanks Lindy.

Becky Harblin so beautiful

Micheal Zarowsky replied ·thanks Becky

Ed Reliuga There is strange, mystical, photographic quality. But its as if the camera has a unique lens — known as the “Zarowsky”. Incredibly rare…. the lens is crafted specifically to view the world through the eyes one amazing person — he sees infinity and the sublime.

As usual Michael, I am truly awed. I had to simply hurl accolades and compliments at you…but, what the heck….you can take it.

Micheal Zarowsky replied · Micheal Zarowsky saw a ‘night’ painting in the musee d’orsay and it never left me, so when we found ourselves down by the river after the moon climbed up in the sky and touched the tips of everything with its light we knew we had found the first of our moonlit paintings which has gone on to be a now and then series – moonlit horses between eden mills and rockwood   

Ed Reliuga You pretty well do what you want with light, dont you? It’s as if you were exemptfrom “the rules” everyone else has to obey. Thank you being such a rebel.

Micheal Zarowsky light n water the 2 things you cannot paint directly only the effects of / so far it has been enough to keep me busy from 76′ til now / infinity rings 12 / black river coopers falls / 28″ x 44″ / watercolour on gessoed birch panel

Micheal Zarowsky was at a party today at one of our oldest continuous clients – dating from back in 87 – and saw some pieces i can’t even remember having done and which took me a little while to re-understand how i did them / so when i got home tonight i went and painted over 4 paintings that after seeing the earlier pieces, were just not good enough anymore

Micheal Zarowsky Theresa Loomis when working on paper i just tear them up / here i have to re gesso them a couple of coats and can start anew

Theresa Loomis Micheal Zarowsky I love gesso. I use it for all kinds of work. It’s very forgiving.

Micheal Zarowsky Theresa Loomis you might take a look at ‘absorbent ground’ – where gesso creates a plastic kitchen counter top like surface, absorbent ground has a linen feel to it, and as the name implies absorbs the paint ( yes it cannot be removed) and has an overall ‘flat’ feel to it….

Micheal Zarowsky Theresa Loomis you might take a look at ‘absorbent ground’ – where gesso creates a plastic kitchen counter top like surface, absorbent ground has a linen feel to it, and as the name implies absorbs the paint ( yes it cannot be removed) and has an overall ‘flat’ feel to it…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

some time ago started painting all the wild flowers in Ontario / got nearly forty done and attention deficit disorder got me and i moved onto something else / although be damned if i can remember what (one of the near 40 / never shown, still here at the studio – lupens 26″ x 21″ watercolour on arches paper )