‘Mains dans les Poches’ – Marché d’IssigeacA5© The Artist. Mains dans les poches = hands in the pockets, which is a saying that means not spending, just looking.Here’s another old boy in a berry, one of my neighbours & his dog. Observe that he is wearing no socks inside his plastic clogs. I took this…
Category: French market places
Drawings & paintings of market places in south west France. Often in the Dordogne at Issigeac, Castillonnès or Bergerac
NOTAN – Winter Sun – Marché d’Issigeac
‘NOTAN – Winter Sun – Marché d’Issigeac’one half times A5ink© The Artist.150 € / 100 £ UK / 200 US dollars.
NOTAN – Jour du Marché
Jour du Marché Watercolour & felt tip. A5 sketchbook, Double Spread (well almost) © The Artist. Another ‘attack of the giant white trades vans’… this time, a seller of black clothes of all things. Notan Half-tone is a real mental discipline. My felt tip pens have dried out. Short life product, the alcohol evapourates. Not…
Electric Guitar Busker – ‘L’Assurance Vie’ – life insurance?
‘Busker’ A5 scribble in ink Market day in Bergerac. Busker with electric guitar & vox-box on the pavements. I particularily liked the juxtaposition between him, the artist doubtlessly living in precarity, and the publicity for life insurance. Everything has its price & the price of a life of creativity is often financial insecurity. I thinK…
NOTAN – Market Day Crowds
Pencil & felt-tips © The Artist. And do you think we could get a table? Market day crowds drinking their coffee & meeting up & being friendly. We are currently having an indian summer so the light is bright & intense. Frequently this southern light gives a lovely white fringe or halo around things. On…
TONALITY : ’14 Juilliet – Fête de la Republique’
28 x 38 cm (15″ x 11″) Toutes Droits Reservés© The Artist. Click on image to enlarge (& see without the blur). Quatorze Juilliet in Beaumont town. Tressel tables, vin, grillade & frites. Everybody in town, including all the farming families. Disco, dancing, people watching, laughter & neighbours. Painting in monochrome, using Winsor & Newton…
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…