‘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…
Category: Architecture
Drawings & paintings of architecture & buildings in south west France & Egypt; urban scenes & monuments
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…
Bergerac Waterfront #3 (finished state)
44 x 56 cm (17″ x 22″approx) Oil on Panel.© The Artist. 450 € Well, this is about as far as I can take this one (I think…when a painting is knocking about in the studio, I sometimes see many more other things that might possibly be done). It’s what I call a ‘large small’…
Bergerac Waterfront #3 (unfinished state 2)
44 x 56 cm (17 ” x 22″approx). Oil on Panel.© The Artist.Click on image to enlarge (& see without the blur). Same painting as previous post, second time on location. In the rain, with exciting silver lighting effects. Probably in need of a session in the studio to tie it together. The water was…
Bergerac Waterfront #3 (Unfinished State)
44 x 56 cm (17 ” x 22″approx) Oil on Panel.© The Artist.Click on image to enlarge (& see without the blur). Quai Salvetat vu de La Pelouse. Tableau en état de progres.Great storms & torrential rains here in the Dordogne for the last few days. I painted this the morning before the storm, with…
Fauvist Barns 1 : Muted Red & not Heightened Colour – American Fauve Barns, Wolf Kahn
‘Sechoir à Tabac’ 30 x 40 cm. Oil on Panel.© The Artist. available Old Tobacco Drying Barns The South West is where most of France’s tobacco is grown. This is an old drying barn (sechoir), not far from my house. In these types of barns, alot of work goes on, as the leaves are hung…
Château de Biron
30 x 40 cm. Oil on panel. One of the exceptional things about the South West is the sheer density of history. You go out for a drive, and not too infrequently when you turn around a corner, you see a huge chateau or a crumbling medieval church or a house built into a cliff…
Avec Yvés (aux pieds des Baux de Provence)
Watercolour. Quarter sheet Arches. The view in landscape painting Just carrying on with my rambling musings about ‘THE VIEW’ and previous painters… Same view, again from September last, this time in a different medium. Walk the hills with my ‘confrérès’, other fellow artists who have painted the same landscape, the same paths & the same…
St. Cirq Lapopie #2
Some things about this painting were niggling me, so this is now as far as i can take this image. Generally, about painting architecture in oils in small scale paintings, such as 30 x 40 cm…. difficult! At least,it’s a subject I’ve always preferred to tackle in drawing & watercolour. I find it easier to…
Le Pays du Dropt – peinture
‘Chez Henri et Yvette ‘ 30 x 40 cm. Oil on Panel. Another of my neighbours, here in ‘Le Pays du Dropt.’ The coppiced willows, ‘vieux têtards’, follow the old chemin communal which used to run from Castillonès to Villéreal. Here is a place where you can feel the history in landscape; It hasn’t yet…
