I’m back from teaching two painting courses at the chateau de beduer. All went well. We have over thirty percent student return-rate (as we’ve been running since 1998, it’s always nice to see familar faces & old friends), which counts for us. Nice to be able to say that we are recommended by Time Out…
Category: Photographs
Photographs, snaps & cliches from the pin-hole spy glass — a lens of things seen, artist’s reference photos
Happy Easter – a fauve Easter bunny in chocolate!
joking apart, animals are looming large on my horizon…sphinx, owls & now chocolate bunnies?
‘Mains dans les Poches’ – Marché d’Issigeac
‘Mains dans les Poches’ – Marché d’IssigeacA5© The Artist. Mains dans les poches = hands in the pockets, which is a saying that means not spending, just looking.Here’s another old boy in a berry, one of my neighbours & his dog. Observe that he is wearing no socks inside his plastic clogs. I took this…
Journées Européennes du Patrimoine 2007
Last weekend was the ‘European Days of Heritage’. It’s a wonderful chance to see some of the sites that aren’t always open to public or just not very well known. Visiting out-of-the-way ‘manoirs’ & ‘chartreuses’ always surprises me. Not just the amount of restoration & rebuilding that has gone on in the Dordogne these last…
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…
Notan : ‘La Maison Peyarade, Bergerac’
‘La Maison Payarade, Bergerac’ Encre Chine. Tous Droits Reservés I’ve been following some the talk about ‘Notan’ over on Katherine Tyrell’s blog, so I thought I’d post this three-tone drawing. Not quite a Notan I know, as it’s not flat enough. Has perspective & depth rather than flat pattern. I decided to try however to…
Camera Manufacturor’s Default Now Reimbursed
‘Dordogne Marchande, Lalinde’ photograph by Adam Cope I used to have a good digital camera & used to photograph ‘en plein air’ whilst painting. Here’s a snap I took whilst painting ‘Reedbeds at Lalinde’ (see a few post previously). It was a Minolta Dimage A1, which I had a for a brief couple of years,…
Photographs by Francis Annet
Photo : Francis Annet . Tous Droits Reservés. Copyright : Francis Annet During ‘Le 3eme Festival Flore Faune’ I exhibited alongsides Francis Annet, a photographer whose work I greatly enjoy. I feel his photos or ‘cliches’ as they are sometimes called in french, go beyond the ‘happy snaps’ (or ‘cliches’ as they are known in…
