tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45212694621385867432024-11-01T12:15:01.932+01:00A house party of artists in Provence - what they saw and did - and what they paintedUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4521269462138586743.post-42678185011875869392013-07-03T14:47:00.001+02:002013-07-03T14:47:38.613+02:00

I had a very quick, but wonderful trip to Provence with mon chéri a few days ago. He spoiled me with lovely dinners and a lot of patience when I did some sketches. I tried to be as quick as I can with pencil and left the ink lines until the very end so I could change to some neater linework where necessary. In some sketches I went in directly with watercolor and added the pen line work

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One of the nice things which has happened to me since our visit to Provence is that I've been commissioned to convert one of my sketches into a proper drawing. So what started out as a lovely lunch and afternoon's sketching has now become a drawing despatched as a present to a cyclist in the USA.  He stayed at the hill top hotel in Crillon Le Brave where I had lunch - and climbed Monet

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It is a year since we were all painting in Provence. It never fails to amaze me what can happen in just a year. The most dramatic thing must be that the beautiful house that we all enjoyed, Ruth and Juliens home, burnt down in November. Happily now it is habitable again. I am now a grandmother, little Poppy is just 6 months, I think she disapproves of me already!! I have, in the last year

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Ruth has created a set of photos of Les Couguieux on Flickr - which she has compiled for the New York Times.... Sounds like there might be another article in the offing! In the meantime see photos of the BEFORE and AFTER of where we ate, played, painted, bathed and slept back in June.  I still think of it - a lot!  However those autumn colours are to die for!

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oil on canvas 120 x 80 cm or 47 x 31.5 inches I had to post something else up on this blog as the picture that Katherine posted of me, night painting, really began to annoy me as it popped up in the side bar of my blog!  This is a big studio piece that I did for my recent exhibition at Beside The Wave.  Obviously larger studio works are done from photographs and I know that many

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Now I'm back home I've started to load all my photos into a Flickr Collection - Provence 2011 - for all to see - minus a few which will only be shared with those who visited Provence! I thought I'd post a few of these to the blog so you can see what you would have seen while we were there if we hadn't had the lightning strike. The first is to show you that Sarah not only produces lots of

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How much paint does a painter paint when a painter paints Provence? Well this may tell you: In two weeks I did 59 paintings.  13 small oils and 13 bigger ones, 11 larger watercolours, 11 medium watercolours and 11 tiny gouaches. This is a picture of my oils just before I packed them to go home: I wont bore you with the list of colours but they were all brand new when I arrived, white was

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This is the small oil painting I did of the view from Julian's studio window after I gave up wasting paint on the canvas boards and gave them three coats of gesso instead! It was done the day after the lightning strike when the weather was a bit odd and I was waiting around to see "what needed to happen next" re the telephone and modem - so staying near to the house seemed like a sensible idea.&

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A View of Mont Ventoux - WIP, a photo by makingamark2 on Flickr.I tried to finish this pastel - of a view of Monet Ventoux with the vineyards in the foreground - on my last evening in Couguieux. The light beat me in the end so it's not finished.I think I'm calling this one a large scale study for another pastel yet to be completed. You'll recall I've already done one sketch of this view in Mont

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Shadow Shed.  Oil by Sarah Wimperis Washing Line and Pegs.  Oil by Sarah Wimperis House in the Hot Sun.  Watercolour by Sarah Wimperis.  Here are a few little paintings, done in the heat of the midday sun in Provence, with the sound of the cicadas making the heat even more intense.  Dry grass and dusty earth and the smell of pine resin.  

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The Demoiselles de Coiffees - WIP, a photo by makingamark2 on Flickr.I'm now on my way home and am posting this while sat in a hotel in Bourg-en-Bresse. It's a good time to try and to post some more of my sketches and pastel works in progress which haven't yet made it on to the blog given to only being able to post images via Flickr.This work in progress is maybe about 60% completed - enough for

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A potager in Provence, a photo by makingamark2 on Flickr.Via Flickr:This is Ruth's potager (vegetable garden) at Couguieux with Mont Ventoux in the background. it's a little way from the house and all the water has to be transported by hose and watering can.This sketch was done in my last full day in Provence. it's not finished - it got too hot to continue where I was sitting. However I like

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Rainy Day.  Oil. By Sarah Wimperis. Midnight, Summer Solstis.  Oil.  By Sarah Wimperis  Blue Chair. Oil. By Sarah Wimperis. Having got home and unpacked my bags, mostly painting equipment and paintings, I have done a final count up and seem to have managed to have done 59 paintings in two weeks.  I am terrible at doing things after the event, blogging stuff that has

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Crillion Le Brave Steps, watercolour  Pots on the Terasse, Gouche, small.   The Rode Home, Gouche, small  The Well, Gouache, small Vine, Gouche, small I am home, finally, back in Cornwall after two plane flights, a car journey, night at my mums, to collect the dog, and a long drive down to the heel of Cornwall.  My dear Big Dave has made a lovely meal and I have a large

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Yesterday was a very long day and sketching was confined to lunch at La Maison Jaune - but I've not photographed this as yet. We left the house just after 7am and Sarah was dropped off at Marseilles airport at 9am. I then drove across the Crau Plain and the Alpilles http://www.beyond.fr/sites/alpilles.html to St Remy de Priovence which has its Market on Wednesday. I visited the Market, took

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Late Sunday afternoon, a photo by makingamark2 on Flickr.I've had my eye on the wisteria round the door to the dining room since the beginning of the holiday. Late Sunday afternoon I rose to the challenge.I think it was the rather interesting shadows cast by the chair which provided the stimulation to "have a go".there won't be a post tomorrow morning as I'm taking Sarah to the airport at

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A work in progress, a photo by makingamark2 on Flickr.I forgot to take a photo of the two sketches I did yesterday so am posting this photo of the work in progress.It was a very hot day so we had a rather lazy Sunday sketching and painting on the terrace. This one started as a detailed pen and ink sketch which I always find very meditative. This sketch will be called "a quiet place in Provence"

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The view from the Terrace, Hotel Crillon Le Brave, a photo by makingamark2 on Flickr.This is the view from the terrace of the Hotel Crillon Le Brave. We paid a visit on Thursday for Robyn's "treat" meal out. This was the view from where I sat.Today Robyn is driving back to her home in Italy.Sarah is sat next to me in the Hotel Relais de Mont Ventoux - and is up and running with Internet access

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Mont Ventoux and the vines, a photo by makingamark2 on Flickr.This is a sketch for a pastel I'm thinking of doing. I've christened my new A3 size Moleskine Sketchbook this week and this is the third sketch in it. It's a big view so it seemed sensible to work out how it worked and what colours a involved before I start thE pastel - which might wait until I get home.Sarah sends her regards but is

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Artist at work, a photo by makingamark2 on Flickr.A slight element of trying to emulate John Singer Sargent painting Claud Monet going on here! you can see preparatory pen and ink sketches on Flickr.This was done before the massive thunderstorm at 3.30am on Wednesday morning. The first crack of thunder was so loud and so long I thought a plane had crash landed nearby. I've not heard or seen

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My three artist buddies are stuck in the Vaucluse without phone, without internet, but hopefully with enough cherries to keep them going! They had a huge storm last night which struck out the phone and internet and fired right into the wall sockets.This storm has been brooding since the day before I left and I sat on the side terrace the afternoon sketching the skies over Mont Ventoux. It was hot

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Gouache on handmade rag paper - by Robyn Sinclair22 x 30cmI'd love to stay and chat but the Other Two Painters are off on an afternoon painting adventure and I'm supposed to be cooking dinner.This was painted on a special piece of paper gifted to me by a dear Sketchercise friend. Thanks, Alison. I love it!

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A quick sketch from Sunday lunchtime when I sat next to one of the five branches of the Sorgue River which run through L'Isle sur la Sorgue and sketched the town and a very small part of its famous Sunday markets L'Isle sur la Sorgue Also see: Travels with a Sketchbook - Sketching at L'Isle sur la Sorgue Making A Mark - L'Isle sur la Sorgue markets for photos of the markets

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Blue skies and beautiful shadows in the early morning.  Little oil by Sarah Wimperis and after she had done this she toddled off to do yet another painting of the Potager.  This time with a view of the mountain in the blazing midday sun. Potager in the Midday Sun by Sarah Wimperis.There are many more of her Provencal paintings over on her blog The Red Shoes

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Saturday started a bit grey and cloudy - but got better.  I went back to coloured pencil sketching while I pondered on the oil painting of the day before. Here's a couple of sketches of our immediate surroundings at Couguieux. The first was done in the morning when it was still rather grey The wall at Couguiuex 11" x 16", pen and ink and coloured pencils in Moleskine The next done was

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