‘Landorre, Quercy Blanc’ Oil on canvas 50 x 61cm (19,7 x 24inches). © The Artist. 800 € borie = small stone sheperd”s hut Quercy = the old name for the province that lies in & around the lot dept. in sw France Blanc = white, the area has a lot of very white limestone A…
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painting of cahors A.O.C.
‘Vines – Terre Rouge’ 30 x 40 cm oil on panel © The Artist. 150 € painting of cahors A.O.C. Vines in winter/early spring in Quercy. The appelation is Cahors A.O.C., which is sometimes known as ‘the blood of France’. This appelation has two distinct geographical types, that tend to give two slightly differnet wine…
Three Cherry Trees & Autumn Vines
‘Three Cherry Trees & Autumn Vines’ 2007 oil on panel 30 x 40 cm © The Artist. sold alla prima = done in one session , with very little or no retouching back in the studio I left this painting behind last autumn, whilst on a painting tour in Quercy, & recently sold it… this…
‘dodo’ pencil sketch of a child asleep
‘dodo’ 2008 A5 sketchbook -pencil © The Artist. “Every child is an artist.” dodo (fr) = zzzzzzz (en) aren’t they adorable when they are asleep 😉
Nature in Dordogne – St Brigids Day
‘Lac de la Nette – After St Brigids Day’ 2008 oil on panel 6 F ( 31 x 44 cm) © The Artist. 300 € – paypal Nature in Dordogne OK, carrying on with a short amble about nature in the Dordogne. This painting was made ‘en plein air’ besides ‘ le lac de la…
Nature in Dordogne – Homage aux Ronces
‘Les Ronces’ 2008 6 F ( 41 x 33 cm) Oil on Panel © The Artist.300 € – PayPal The are still pockets of land unexploitated & ‘in abandon’ ( ‘frisch’) here in the Dordogne. The birds love them, & so too the wild life & the hunters. ‘Les Ronces’ (brambles) grow in profusion in…
Le Grand Roc, Les Eyzies, Dordogne
‘Le Grand Roc, Les Eyzies’ Oil on Canvas 86,5 x 76 cm ; 34 x 30 inches Tous Droits Reservés© The Artist. email me for details about how to buy What I enjoy about this place is it is a veritiable meeting of two different ‘styles’ of landscape (three actually if you count the busy…
Self 6 – ‘at the end of the day’
Self #6 – ‘ at the end of the day’ 2008 Watercolour. 24 x 32 cm © The Artist. ‘…at the end of the day.’ Using up paint at the end of the day. Just practising my craft. Painting with speed. Practising painting portaits — quickly. Nothing psychological. It could have been you … or…
The local elections in SW France
‘Titulaire & Suppléant’ 2008 Pencil A5 sketchbook © The Artist. Remembering that this is a painting blog with writing & not a writing blog…. let’s keep the politics brief. There are many better places to read about politics than in a painting blog. Local elections in rural sw france. The ‘communal’ (parish) & the ‘cantonial’…
GOLD STAR
One of my winter jobs is to wash my painting hat. That’s the hat that’s become something of a ‘signature’. You can see me wearing it in my blogger profile photograph. But I don’t always get first turn to wear it however. Here it’s the ‘gold star’ kid whose wearing it…