500th Post – La Vallee de Bergerac depuis Monbazillac –

This is the 500th post on this blog (489 published, 11 drafts not yet published). postcriptum 2013 – been editting down the blog, so this is one will no longer  number 500 Many thanks for your following. Your comments are an encouragement to me 🙂 Just blogging away… Just keep on keeping on… Just painting…

Magazine Article & The End of Winter!

‘Lou Plantou’ Oil. 2004 61 x 50 cm ©adam cope sold [button color=”green” size=”medium” align=”center” link=”https://www.artists-atelier.com//piantings/Vines”]paintings of vines[/button] France’s leading wine magazine Terre de Vinspublished a nice article about me, a painter who paints vineyards Souvent les gens jugent un tableau à première vue, mais come le vin, l’œuvre si elle est réussie doit permettre…

Painting of Vines in Autumn – Large Size Plein-air Painting

‘Semillion, Labadie, Monbazillac’ Large Size Oil on Canvas 81 x 65 cm (approx 26 x 32 inches) ©adam cope sold Here’s the finished state. Here’s the link to its Work In Progress : Lay-in for Plein-Air Large Oil Painting.I went out the next day for a second plein-air session with a mental note ‘yellow &…

Le Cabanon – finished state – adding things to a landscape: Richard Schmid

‘Le Cabanon’ Finished state 2008 – 2009 Large Size Oil on canvas 72 x 54cm (approx 28,5 x 21 inches). © The Artist. For those who aren’t familar with wine growing, the blue amongst the vines are posts. The paint is thick & impasto on this medium-sized oil. Here’s the study from a few posts…