‘Rusty Lock Gates on the Canal’ watercolour. Gone Rusty with neglect? Technique gone rusty? Well, been painting outside but not necessarily achieving finished pieces. Red rust has been on my mind & on my palette. Sometimes it’s like that. Some paintings are long & slow & need a delicate approach. If they don’t…
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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…
La Maison de L’Écluse, Canale de Lalinde
28 x 38 cm (15″ x11″)Watercolour Tous Droits Reservés© The Artist. sold. Click on image to enlarge (& see without the blur). The lock keeper’s house. The turquoise splashed on the house are the traces of ‘bouillion bordelaise’ (bordeaux soup) or copper sulphate that used to be the cure-all pesticide splashed on vines & roses…
Two unfinished watercolours
Up & down the canal…. two unfinished watercolours, I kind of like their incompletion. ‘Old Abandoned House’ 28 x 38 cm (15 ” x 11″) Watercolour © The Artist. Click on image to enlarge (& see without the blur). ‘Old Abandoned House’ – detail Tous Droits Reservés ‘La Moulin de Larouzique’ Couze 28 x 38…
La Canal de Lalinde
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…
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…