Abstract Realism by MARC FOLLY | Painting Masters 35 

I had a chance to do a Workshop with him. He originally learned from an oil painter and he mixes Watercolour like that, believe me it works. He starts with the darks and he is a master to connect shapes!

Marc Folly made me realize, along with Marzio Tamer that the sort of "watercolor" establishment.. meaning all the bigger magazines and websites have really elevated some weak watercolorists to the top and how 99 percent of the watercolorists out there are all painting the same really thin sketch quick looking work where every figure looks like the same little dash with a bright red highlight etc. You look at the diversity possible in the medium and you realize its as diverse as oil paint but its not taken as seriously because too many of the watercolorists are quite frankly not really good at what they do and dont experiment or try finding their own approach. Style is what happens when you develop your technique and paint application method.. if everyone is painting the same technique and way the work becomes so bland it all looks like the same artists except for a few gimmicks they may throw on top.

The third painting was a woman weaving. Those "wires" were warp threads. The small colored items in the front are bobbins of colored thread or yarn to be woven into the warp threads. She is probably weaving a rug or a tapestry.

Hey Liron, If you haven't seen it yet, there's a demo by Marc Folly on RU-vid : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XF2IJn7lZfc.html It's surprising, to say the least!

His work is AWESOME. I like how he leaves much to our imaginations - like the "hot dog stand" or whatever we visualize it to be. The "weaving" one is also so interesting. I feel so inadequate :)

It seems like it follows subject shading and other things of art but abstract

Mark Foley' work is insane! HE could make a pile of trash look beautiful. Wow! Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for introducing me to Marc Folly's art, he is fantastic! It's amazing to me how he can make a humdrum scene beautiful.

He has videos on Instagram

I love the way you study other artists, and take us with you

I love listening to you explaining the paintings as much as I love the paintings! Thanks for this!

One of my favorites. Now he has an Instagram page and frequently posts videos about the process of his work. Thank you so much for this, Liron!

He is on instagram & works from dark to lights!

Thanks for showing us Mark Folly's art. You're right, his approach isn't a crutch. Rather it's a different emphasis completely from what most of us do. He's not painting things at all. He's painting effects - effects generated by light patterns. Stefan Baumann talks about this a lot.

Hi Liron, another artist who painted with an abstract approach to traditional subjects was Claude Croney. A signature member of AWS, he was a popular workshop artist back in the 70s and 80s. Not many examples of his work are online. Claude's work is featured in the book, "Watercolor Impressionists" by Ron Ranson. Cheers!

Thank You Liron for an Informative and Helpful and packed with Insights❤👌✨️🪷 Cape Town

Live Marc’s work...great breakdown and analysts!!:) T

I've seen two other videos of Folly painting. Here's one: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fF16x_WBg6A.htmlsi=tqLNQsbWjIUtFsFP. (In French.). There is a lot of really interesting process: pools of paint, tilting the paper this way and that, and even using the pool as a sort of pallete to take paint from! The other one is from the Victorian Watercolor Society; it is very short and I didn't get much from it - you might get more.

Marc Folly has an Instagram channel with brief videos of his process

Great video...you're reviews and analysis of other artists' works are superior. I'm wonder whether we will see any more outdoor painting from you? I have always found it very interesting to watch you develop a painting on site.

His work reminds me somewhat of Richard Bolton's. Richard paints things like old tractors, old cars, rusty things. If you've not seen his work, check him out. One of his books is called "Texture and Detail in Watercolors".

Excellent vid Liron, I love Marc Folly’s work his comps are amazing and his use of bright colors and light are outstanding! Thanks for posting.

What colours does he use in his pallet?

Oh wow! Thanks so much for showing this artist’s works. They’re absolutely gorgeous. So much texture and granulation in his paints, which I love!

Thank you very much. I learn very much from your comments.

He is my favorite painter. I learnt a lot from you as well :) by the way, now you can find a video on his process. You can find it by searching : Demo de Acuarela Marc Folly.

Liron, I just googled him and I see he's on Facebook. I'm not on Facebook but perhaps you could contact him there. I'd love to know more about his process. Tzipora

Great vid as usual, thanks Liron ! May I suggest you to have a look on Ron Ranson's watercolor works. He paints everything with a limited palette and a Hake brush… How to simplify as he does is wonderful.

One of my favorites , if not favorite masters

Liron, this fellow's work is simply wonderful. He uses hard and soft edges to get his focal point. I'm curious if the light/white areas are the paper or does he use, for example, white guache or something. I'm assuming that he does careful drawings beforehand. I've been trying not to draw ahead but I'm not very successful. With oils, it was soooo much easier. I'd love to be able to paint like this too. The colours he's using seem to be simply complimentaries in one form or another - blues/oranges for example. Thanks for this ! Tzipora from Jerusalem.

Thank you Liron for making this video! I've casted this on a large tv-screen, there was so much to look at! Especially with your in depth guide through it all!

Wonderful artist! I like his work. Can you make something about Xavier Swolfs, he is a Belgium artist, wonderful work too. And Jeanne Dobbie is fascinating too, may be you can make a video about the both are working.

Great vid, Liron!! Marc Foley's color choices remind me a little of Viktoria Prischedko 🙂 I would love to see you feature her on Painting Masters!

Already a fan of this guy after this video, may end up in my personal podium of favorites with Chung-Wei and a third one (which I'm sure not sure if could be Castagnet or maybe another guy i don't recall his name now... Derek something?). Hey Liron, what is the status 📴 your personal 3 or 4 favorite watercolorists? Thanks for the video, cheers.

Beautiful Artwork = really something for me to aspire to thank you By the way I really love this video series

Great artist, I agree

What a great video....thanks for your thoughts on one of my favorite painters. Marc Folly is epic! I wanted to let you know that the last piece you show is a potter's bench, with the wheel in the foreground with a completed bowl. Also another artist who I think is stellar and would love to hear your review is John Lovett from Australia. Please keep me posted if you can, if and when you post a review of him.

Abstract Realism???? WTF is that???

Does Marc Folly draw pencil conture prior to painting?

Really great analysis of amazing artwork

👍👍👍thank you❤🌹🙏

Loved this analysis Leon….have long been an admirer of Marc Folly’s work..he has been featured in a few past issues of ‘The Art of Watercolour’ ans it’s French sister magazine, L’Art d’Aquarelle

I fell in love with Marc’s work initially because of his colour palette and then I came to really appreciate his style - he too is one of my favourite artists. There is an American artist, Jeanne Dobie, who is, among other things an expert on the use and mixing of colour and design in relation to values, contrast and composition, many currently well known watercolour artists like Thomas Schaller credit Jeanne Dobie for influencing the way they use colour and design in their work. In my opinion no one explains and shows the effects in mood and atmosphere which can be achieved through using differing colour themes like she does and her design principles are fundamentals I believe every artist needs to know and understand and she explains them in such an easy and practical way. Her book is called ‘Making Colour Sing’ and here is a link to her website gallery www.jeannedobie.com/paintings.html