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This is a powerful beast I tell you! From the same Port Royal fountain of which I previously posted the picture of a horse. I could literally spend hours in front of that fountain, it has plenty of animals on it including turtles and those dolphins.
A wee study for a new watercolour in the making. It’s a very small 4×4 inches format on soft handmade 120-grammes watercolour paper (hence very hard to work with as my preferred grammage is 600 g which is a bit like cardboard and suits my style of painting best as I keep adding layers and layers and layers as in this picture)
After years of neglect, I have finally decided to get back to my drawing board and here’s my latest watercolour. St Jacques at Dusk. Click picture to enlarge
I spotted these 2 orange deck chairs while climbing — somewhat illegally but don’t tell anyone — one of the modern buildings erected at the Cité Universitaire in the past two years. A room with a view.
A late 19th-century wash-house in Honfleur in Normandy. Nice woodwork on the rooftop. Until now, I’d never thought that wash-houses were such an item in France. You can find a list — by no means comprehensive — at Wikimedia.org.
December 2019, scallops season at Honfleur in Normandy with boats from Brittany and Fecamp and other places. And by the way, there really is a scallops season war going on, and possibly with interesting post-Brexit developments.
Typical me, I bought the latest and greatest camera and the shot I prefer is blurry, to say the least. Well, it was meant to be that way. Deauville, December 2019
A villa in Paris (not in the rest of the country, mind you) is not “a large and luxurious country house in its own grounds”. It’s something I learnt when I settled down here. Instead, it’s a small, and sometimes not so small, street or private cul-de-sac, with dwellings on the sides. Usually, one finds so-called “villas” in very exclusive areas of the city. They are usually private roads with gates and locks. Here we found an open one in […]
