A few more from France
Posted: October 5, 2023 Filed under: Uncategorized 8 CommentsI’m slowly getting around to scanning all my work from France but it’s a long process. For example, my sketch of the old mill in Vernon is quite large (24″ x 9″) and has to be scanned in three passes and stitched together in Photoshop. Thank goodness there’s software that makes the process easy for me!
I’m not really sure what made this mill so much fun to draw. It’s a bit of an oddity, right? A sagging timbered building hanging up there on the remnants of a bridge. You have to smile when you see the scene with all the pigeons on the steeply sloped roof. We sketched this on a very sunny but very cold day in August, with a chilly wind blowing up from the Seine, but despite the cold the whole group of students stayed to finish their drawings.
Here’s another one of a typical Normandy-style building — a tiled roof, a yellow stucco building covered in vines and a tiny balcony that looks out over the property. So much fun to draw something with this many details.
Charming 🥰
Love that house painting!!!
interesting painting!
Lovely paintings. Thank you for sharing.
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Thanks so much posting these images. It’s good to see a group of painters who were a part of your daily sessions. I appreciate both of your paintings but especially like the building covered in vines. The colors are so clean and bright! It would make a great postcard!
Hello Shari,
Thank you so much for including more photos/sketches/paintings from the recent workshops around Giverny, France. It is good to see some again and also the ones my daughter Susan and I missed. Susan did well is trying to catch up on finishing some of hers. I am so proud of her in how she caught on to her first workshop and
how enthused she is to continue sketching and watercolor painting. Thanks to you for your instruction and encouragement for both of us.
Germaine Niedzielski
So many great memories ❤️
The quirky mill made me smile and that charming house makes me want to head back to France. Great job on these!