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Upcoming Workshops with Mark Waller

Upcoming workshops & tutorials in your local areas, check here!

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Kraftgeek Inspire Portable Easel - set yourself up easely.

Kraftgeek Inspire Portable Easel is robust, portable and designed to withstand whatever you can throw at it!

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Workshops past. Been & gone. Delve into past notes, info and stories.

Mark Waller's workshops past - discover what was learned about, talked about, laughed about and consumed with gusto!

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A Recent Painting

I painted this at the request of someone who had bought 2 smaller paintings. He asked me use backlit flowers to use my imagination. Since the client was

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Inspired to do Nothing

While on a semester break in college, I had the opportunity to spend a few days at the dock house my future father-in-law had hand built in the water’s

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We Are One

This painting is called We Are One, acrylic on canvas, 40 cm x 40 cm. It's my parents in Ontario, Canada. They used to tell me and my siblings We are

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Growth mindset

Within the Storm: Where True Triumph Begins This painting was born not from a place of certainty, but from deep doubt. Fear, insecurity, and the ache

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Tax deduction on artworks for this financial year!

Take advantage of 100% tax deduction on artworks this financial year up to $150,000

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A Moose Eating Lilies

Over thirty years ago, I entered an Art for the Parks contest. My entry was a moose eating lilies in the park. I did not get in the top 100, but, I was

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Florida Cracker Cow Hunters

This is a painting of Florida Cracker Cow Hunters. It is based on a pencil drawing done by Frederick Remington in 1895. They rode McClellan saddles

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Living Reef

Just saw the Fishscape painting in this forum, via your newsletter and thought I'd post this one of mine. I was lucky enough to experience a snorkel

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My Fishscape, ( my term) painting of a Parrotfish

I was playing with plastic wrap applied to damp acrylic and after a while I just saw this large fish shape seeming to emerge from the waves. That became

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Wave Crashing

I have been in awe of artists (like Mark) who can capture the energy of waves frozen on the canvas. I have been inspired by some oil paintings done by

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