A few days of summer
Posted: May 21, 2025 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: boat sketch, hahnemuhle book, Lintner palette, Pointe Claire Village, Pointe Claire Yacht Club 26 CommentsLast week we enjoyed some glorious days of summer. The thermometer went up into the twenties (in Celsius, of course) and stayed and stayed and stayed. This week we are back to spring in Montreal, but that’s ok because I enjoyed the foretaste of summer while it was here.
Fortunately those days coincided with a visit from a friend, and I was able to tour her around the city and stop at my favourite sketching spots. She’s a sketcher too, so we made the most of the blue skies and spectacular weather. One of our stops was in Pointe Claire Village, where we bought some sandwiches, had a picnic by the lake, and sketched the just-launched boats at the yacht club. We were sitting in the blazing sun (who wants to sit in the shade on the first hot day??) so I sketched very quickly, but it gave me a good chance to try out my new Lintner palette too.
You can see the palette below. It’s a pretty cool setup but I’ve only tried it once, so I can’t it give a full write-up until I’ve used it a few more times. In the meantime, I filled the 8 full-pan wells with a split triad (a warm and a cool of each of the primary colours) plus Raw Sienna and Burnt Sienna. That seemed to work well for most of the sketch but I had to dip into my friend’s palette for a few dots of turquoise that I needed for the sail covers. What I can say about the palette is that I appreciate having the full size pans for the colours I use most often AND the palette has deep mixing areas which makes me very happy since I often use very juicy washes when I’m sketching in my A4 Hahnemuhle sketchbook. More to come on this!
beautiful painting and the new Lintner palette setup looks very convenient with the versatile attachment
It’s a really wonderful palette! I can’t wait to use it again and explore all its features!
Your wonderful boat paintings. You are so fortunate to have an artist friend. Looking forward to more summer paintings by you.l
I am definitely fortunate to have an artist friend. In fact I am fortunate to have so many artist friends to paint with! And can’t wait for the real summer to arrive so I can get out more.
I like the way you have done the water here
Thanks so much.
Enjoying this painting with new eyes after cataract surgery, I needed to wear 😎.
That must be really wonderful!! A new world.
It sparkles! Love the colours – very interesting 🙂
Thanks Chris!!
Such an AMAZING day, Shari! One I’ll never forget:)
Me too! A very special day!!
What a great painting! Beautiful! Your New pallette looks great! Look forward to hearing your review.
Thanks De. I love the new palette and I will be reviewing it as soon as I can explore a bit more!
love that painting
Thank you!
Love the energy in this sketch, and the feel of the sunny day. It comes through clearly!
Thanks so much Ginie!
Sounds like a great day with your friend!
It sure was!!
Always a treat to see your beautiful paintings! Also appreciate what you share about the new products you use, things that may never show up on our “radar” otherwise.
Denise, I’m glad you might find this useful. I will definitely be reviewing it here.
You’ve captured the spring light so perfectly in this! Nice that you had a fellow artist to paint with. Your new palette looks interesting. I did go over and check out the video. I’ll be watching for your review.
It’s a great palette. I still haven’t really taken the full setup outside. We’ve been having strange and somewhat turbulent weather here this week. It was gorgeous this morning and now there are thunderstorms. It was the same yesterday.
Beautiful. We had one summer day in San Francisco last week. Heavenly. Love all the blue in the water. Which blues did you use?
Elaine, I was using a limited palette for this. It is only Ultramarine and a bit of Prussian Blue.