Thanks for sharing these, Marty. What a treat to see your 2023. I especially love your trees!

Good to see you Marty. You’ve been missed. Thank you for sharing your year of lovely sketchbooks with us. Beautiful. Hope to see you again soon.

I loved your sketchbooks. Just gorgeous!. The video sound bites of birds, cows, crickets, water gurgling made me feel like I was at some of your water color scenes. Thank you for sharing.

Love your sketchbooks! Thank you.

Thank you for your inspirational video. Capturing the beauty of nature and the changing seasons is something we could all benefit from and you are a great example to us all. Your curiosity and wonder are refreshing and beautifully conveyed.

So nice to see you and your sketchbooks. You’ve been missed.

I absolutely loved seeing your sketchbooks! You are inspiring! Thanks for sharing!

Absolutely stunning, Marty! Thank you for sharing your art and thoughts, with us. ❤

Beautiful sketchbooks, thank you for sharing. I am inspired to try this for each season too!

This video is such a gift, Marty. So much beauty to find in both, your drawings and your words. Love the colourful autumn leaves sketches! 🍂 It was pretty cold here in January and we had some snow which I always enjoy! Now there is already a promise of spring in the air. Best wishes and keep sketching trees! 🌳

Beautiful video, thank you.

I'm new to your channel thanks to Lindsay Weirich's podcast. I really, really enjoyed you sharing your sketchbooks and videos. I hope to get out more to draw and paint. Your paintings are so simple yet I could easily lose myself in them. Excited to go back and see your past videos and new ones to come. Thank you.

Thanks for sharing your awesome sketchbooks! It’s so inspiring to hear you talk about the places you obviously love!

I just watched your seasons sketch book tour. your art work is just beautiful, I love your style and your kind and gentle voice, Thank you for being an inspiration. I am nearly 80 years young from Boise , Idaho and we too have 4 distinct seasons. Thank you again

Love what you do Marty glad your sharing it with us :)

Your paintings are so lovely. Landscapes are so hard for me because my brain doesn’t want to simplify the shapes. Your paintings are very inspiring

Thank you for sharing these Marty.

Wow that was a beautiful sketch book journey Marty, thanks for sharing 🙂

Thank you. I am so inspired now 😊

This is awesome. Thank you for sharing! Lovely country, lovely art. I've missed your videos. Lindsay Weirich mentioned she's doing a podcast with you, posting tomorrow, which made me check your channel again, and THERE you were!

Great idea to sketch the seasons. Tour sketchbooks are wonderful. Thank you for sharing them.

Very inspiring and lovely video, your work is lovely! Thanks for sharing. I too love painting trees, they are such fascinating individuals.

Hey Marty! Good to see you!❤

What a treat! I love looking through sketchbooks. What a beautiful series and your videoography brought us right there with you. You have a distinct style! Fabulous!

Beautiful sketchbooks-nature-our true home❤ thanks for sharing

Lovely sketchbooks, Marty! I've always said you're a great artist, but I see improvement from your last sketchbooks! Keep on painting our beautiful USA, and please make more videos! I know YT isn't at the top of you're list when busy with work and life! We all miss you!

Thanks for sharing your lovely work! ❤

Thank you Marty for sharing your amazing talent and life with us. Stunning!

Hi Marty, I just found your channel via your visit with Lindsey W and subscribed. I used to see you on Steve Mitchell's channel but somehow missed that you have your own. You three and Louise de Masi are my favorites art You Tubers. So now I am going to have to binge watch episodes I have missed here:) I enjoyed the tour of your sketchbooks and your landscape photography. As a Minnesotan, you really captured the essence in both mediums. I especially like your tractor sketches. (My least favorite are anything with snow - I can't wait for spring!) Seriously though, your sketches are all so well done and evoke both a sense of place and atmosphere which is not easy to do. Thank you for sharing.

Beautiful sketches and beautiful reflections! Drawing is our time of peace, which is definitely needed in this world.

Thanks for sharing your art and your thoughts.

Here Summer is the most dreaded season because it's so dangerous and so many people die just from the heat that we experience here in Phoenix Arizona most people believe that Arizona is All Desert it is the farthest thing from that. Yes we have stunningly beautiful desert and we have the only place in the world where saguaro cacti are grown plentifully. What people don't realize is that you can go two to three hours in any direction and be in a completely different climate other than the ocean which is about a 7 hour drive away. Autumn is an incredible treat here as far as weather goes and up north and Northeast you find the changing leaves and the Beautiful wildlife winter is nowhere near as harsh here as in other states butt in Flagstaff it can be. Our Dream for retirement which is only a few years away is to move 25 miles Northeast of Payson where it's a small Valley and there are less than 25 human beings. There are Timberwolves and gray wolves up there as well as black bear elk and deer as well as javelinas sadly but they're protected species. Thank you so much for sharing your work it is so stunningly beautiful and so incredibly inspiring. I wish that you had an opportunity to paint our Sedona sunsets which are the most colorful in the world. I look forward to seeing so much more work from you in the future.

I recently purchased a small black tool box in which I could store my rotary tool and it's attachments. I wondered what I could do to make it different from the average small black tool box like the one my son has. So, I pulled out my Posca pens and have been drawing on it. It really is looking different now. But, as the box gets used, the acrylic ink will most likely wear off; but, that just means I get to do it all over again and make it look even more different. Thanks for sharing your books.

beautiful, thanks for sharing

Thank you so much for this I loved listening and looking, beautiful art and words..🥰

New subbie, here. I’ve seen you with James and Steve, and so enjoyed your podcast with Lindsay. Lovely sketchbooks! Great video!

Lovely Marty, I got to see the change of seasons and landscape in your paintings, loved the varied greens, the lone barn on the hill, the tractor, especially a split second of 2 hens/ chickens in the last pages pf May-June 2023. The tall tree, the video of Lake Superior...thank you for these glimpses into your ecology..nature keeps us fresh...oh! How could i forget the penmanship.....🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉namastey and thank you🙏🙏🙏

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I always love a good sketchbook tour; it's really inspiring! Thank you for sharing your work.

I’m so excited for this !

Thanks for sharing your own unique way to see nature. So Beautiful!

Thanks for sharing Marty. I always love to look at your sketches. Beautiful work. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Lovely sketchbook tours. Thanks for sharing these and your thoughts Marty

Your sketchbooks are such works of art! I'm more of an urban sketcher, and yet trees dominate my city compostions, too. What would we draw outdoors without trees? (That's rhetorical 😉) Thank you so much for sharing!

I only really 'see' you here on KZfaq but this video was worth the wait. You should start up an ASMR channel, you certainly have the soothing voice for it! Just as you came out with the comment about trees a split second before that I was thinking to myself, 'I love trees so much!' In my opinion, there should be more of them..and Dame Judi Dench agrees!! Besides your landscapes (I really like the double-page spread ones) you're very good at depicting animals. Bison are so cute, I'm glad they have made a recovery. My Mum discovered a documentary about them recently and she loved it. I'm wondering if it was on the PBS channel? She can't remember lol.x

How about painting the four seasons there with the Holbein Irodori Gouache set?

Beautiful work! I'm curious to know if you used a waterbrush for most of these, and which paint brand (your Schmincke?). I've completed a couple of these Pentalic AquaJournals myself, and had trouble with too much water and overworking. You did a fantastic job!

Lovely! Wonderful video! What kind of sketchbooks do you use?