A winner ! Le Vast 16"x20" 40x50cm

Le Vast is a small village in Normandy, close to Cherbourg where once a year  beginners and professionals painters meet to paint a spot of their choice. - they are many! This year I joined the group and was happy to be rewarded with the second price as professional. Here is my painting


The path towards le Vast - A la prima

Reville the beach 20"x 65" 50cmx65cm

Reville en Juillet 2015

                                                        
July  2015
A hot day, the scenery is constantly changing, I have to be very fast!   I painted this on a black heavy paper( and gesso )which seems to have darken all hues creating a "stormy" effect. I quite like it.

Juillet

Il fait tres beau, la scene change constamment , il fait faire vite! J'ai travaille sur un paper epais ,traite avec du gesso et une couche d'acrylique noir ce qui a assombri toutes les couleurs , cela donne  un effete d'orage qui me plait...

2 variations of a painting

The blue horse 60cmx50cm

 

I entered this painting late month for an exhibition ,the subject being The horse. I have no horse, did just a bit of riding when I was younger therefore I had no idea what to do till I realised that I had a horse at home ! a sculpture of one of the four famous Marly horses ( their replicas can be seen on the Concorde Place in Paris.)

Cette peinture a ete presentee - le sujet Le cheval- au salon des Cascades a St Pierre L'Eglise le mois denier. Je n'ai pas de cheval et ai tres peu monte , aussi je me suits decidee pour une sculpture d'un cheval de Marly que j'avais a la maison (la replique de ces chevaux peut etre vue sur la Place de la Concorde, Paris

The horse with silver 60cm x 80 cm   24"x32"

La pointe de Jonville et un jardin au Vast

La Pointe de Montville 40cmx50cm. 16"x19"



J'ai repris les pinceaux et come c'est l'ete j'ai abandonne l' objet pour le payage,  et de tenter de connaitre mieux la complexite des couleurs de la nature, specialement les verts.

 

I am back painting and being Summer I have started painting landscape instead of Still life. I have very little experience but it is a fantastic feeling to be in nature trying hard to reproduce - more to interpret it. The greens are really a challenge!

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  Le jardin au Vast 47cmx38cm    18"x15"      

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An unfinished painting.18"x14". 47cmx36cm

This is an old painting which was never finished. I have readjusted some values - mostly the light which reminds me of the importance of creating good values right from the start : dark, light and middle tone , simple is it not !

J'ai  travaille sur les rehauts pour enfin finir cette peinture. Ceci me rappelle qu'il faut bien travailler les valeurs des le depart, les sombres, les lumières, les demi tons , les classiques commencaient en faisant le tableau monochrome avec toutes les valeurs.

Autumn  2013

Roquebrune mountain 20"x16" 50x40cm

Roquebrune (Huile)

From our house similar to the one in this picture (but with a swimming poole) we could see this fantastic rock formation changing colour under different light.
The challenge was to give the three level of depth in this landscape.

La montagne Roquebrune vue sous la lumiere du matin (elle change de couleur avec l'heure) .Une legere brume bleue enveloppe cette montage attenuant sa couleur et aidant a figurer la distance.