I’ve been working down by the canal again , so I post some images from 2001 when I painted there as well. ‘La Canal de Lalinde’ 2001watercolour© The Artist.Click on image to enlarge (& see without the blur).Sold ‘La Canal de Lalinde’ 2001Oil – large size© The Artist.Click on image to enlarge (& see without…
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La Bassin de la Canale de Lalinde (Les Tuilières)
28 x 38 cm. ( 15″ x 11″) . Watercolour. © The Artist. Click on image to enlarge (& see without the blur). amazing canal lock. 13 meters drop. Full of muddy water slow moving water bridge behind the lock a lot of construction nice place to paint
Dordogne at Badefols
‘La Dordogne à Badefols’ Watercolour. Quater sheet Arches (28 x 38cm ; 15 x 11inches)© The Artist.Click on image to enlarge (& see without the blur). 250 € / 100 £ UK / 200 US dollars.Click here to buy this painting. This was a demonstration painting done for the June painting workshop here in the…
NOTAN : ‘Vendeuses des Conserves au Marché’
felt tip pens © The Artist. Sellers of tins of conserved duck at the french market place Attack of the giant white trades vans!! notan = design in black & white, tonality
NOTAN : ‘Poisson Frais du Marché’
15 x 21 cm. Felt Tip Pens on Paper. Notan study. Tous droits reservés. Copyright – The Artist. BTW, this was a demonstration piece of last week’s painting workshop here in france French Market Places The fish-monger’s wife was a cubist delight, a three tone design with a flip of a fin. Market day is…
Tonality : ‘Avec Nostradamus ( La Nuit de Temps commencant à la Fontaine de St Rémy)’
‘Avec Nostradamus ( La Nuit de Temps commencant à la Fontaine de St Rémy)’ Watercolour, Arches, quarter ‘jesuit’ sheet. © The Artist. 300 euros I didn’t paint this watercolour last week, as I was very busy teaching one of my Painting Holidays au Chateau de Lanquais, France night-time plein air This watercolour was another of…
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Next week I teach one of my Painting Holidays au Chateau de Lanquais, France I’m currently busy preparing & thus it might be abit difficult to keep this blog’s promise of ‘a painting a week’ (if I hadn’t spent so much time chatting away to myself here in the deafening silence of this blog, then…
Notan Photograph – ‘The Wirly Gates’
‘The Wirly Gates’ 2004 © The Artist. Notan can mean something/nothing as well as dark/light Notan photography? Is the black emptiness? Photography has difficult of reading things in shadows. It frequently makes pictures with black nothingness as shadows… These digital cameras are great for ‘visual thinking’ … working things out in a visual way… kind…
Notan : ‘La Maison Peyarade, Bergerac’
‘La Maison Payarade, Bergerac’ Encre Chine. Tous Droits Reservés I’ve been following some the talk about ‘Notan’ over on Katherine Tyrell’s blog, so I thought I’d post this three-tone drawing. Not quite a Notan I know, as it’s not flat enough. Has perspective & depth rather than flat pattern. I decided to try however to…
Fauvist Barns, Heightened Colour…Vlaminck & Kandinsky
this is the second post of ‘fauvist barns’ ‘Sechoir à Tabac’ 30 x 40 cm. Oil on Panel © The Artist available anti-fauve barns Just updating the post ‘Sechoir à Tabac’ (it’s about the above painting) in which I chatted about ‘anti-fauve’ barns ….trying to keep a barn door rusty brownish red, rather than letting…