Gone Rusty

  ‘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…

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…

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…