this is my latest watercolour depicting the early morning hours in Saint-Jacques,our area around Montparnasse and Denfert-Rochereau in Paris. The idea was not so much to describe the area but rather to tell a story – as long as brushes…
Here’s the final version of the Eiffel Tower that I was mentioning in the previous post. In this version, a few final elements have been added such as the foreground crowd namely. I will show this watercolour together with my…
This is the latest watercolour on which I am currently working. it represents the Eiffel tower a few moments before the kick-off of the fireworks on Bastille day last year. the characters in the foreground aren’t finished yet but they…
Maurice Denis (1870-1943), a famous French painter, one of the leaders of the Nabis movement painted ‘Procession under the trees in St Germain en Laye’ in 1892. From February 22 to May 20, 2007, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts…
A new sketch of Saint Germain en Laye, the regal town in an affluent suburb 20km west of Paris. I gave the watercolour a cartoon look by adding india ink on the drawing.
Here’s a new version of the Port Royal Cloister to complement our earlier sketch. This time it’s a watercolour and not a drawing.
Here is a view of Auvers sur Oise, the small town north west of Paris where Van Gogh ended up his life. He shot himself a few hundred yards from this church in a field which can still be seen…
Here is a view taken from our house in the Pyrenees. This is an old weaver’s workshop converted into a house. This is a traditional house from the Ariege, in the Pyrenees mountains. In the distance one can see the…
Le Havre is a town in France, the name of which means ‘haven’, almost oppositive newhaven on the other side of the Channel, in Normandy. This watercolour depicts the house of our friends in Sanvic, in the outskirts of that…
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