30 Paintings in 30 Days #21 View from the Top, Gordes

View From the Top, Gordes

View From the Top, Gordes

21st painting for the month. (Yep, I have to catch up.) 
There's a great little boutique, right off the main square and next to where I was standing painting. If you like linen clothing, it's great. If you like gelato, you can get some a few paces away. Gordes was featured a few times in "A Good Year" the movie with Russell Crowe and Marion Cotillard. 
This painting has been accepted into the Forest & Ocean Gallery for Laguna Plein Air's next show coming up in February, 2016. ‪#‎LPAPA‬'s ‪#‎30paintingsin30days‬.

Oil on archival board. 8" x 8"

As with my 30 in 30 paintings, they can all be view at DailyPaintWorks for the duration of the 30 paintings in 30 days challenge. They are all for sale there, so far, except this one which is available from the Forest and Ocean gallery.

30 Paintings in 30 Days #11 Lavender Field

#11 Lavender Field

Lavender Field

After a long afternoon of scouting before the guests arrived, we headed back for a glass of something cool and regional. We were in the Côtes du Rhone after all. We drove past this farm house and in unison decided "Let's paint that!" A quick U-turn, we pulled off the road and whipped out our gear in a race before the golden hour ended. I managed to start this sketch, then got distracted photographing my artist friends thigh-deep in lavender. See Instagram for those pics. Oh well I never finished it there. But I did manage to complete it 6 months later in the studio.

Oil on Linen Panel. 6" x 6"

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30 Paintings in 30 Days #10 Rolling Lavender at Lioux

 Rolling Lavender at Lioux

Rolling Lavender

One way to find the best lavender fields in Provence is to head to the hills and see what you see. Another way is to ask on Twitter. That's amazingly effective. Luckily we are returning to the area and have already located great places to paint this year. 
Criteria for painting location.
Lavender - check. 
Parking - check. 
Nearby café - check.
 A loo - check. 
We're all set.

8" x 10" Oil on Archival Board.
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30 Paintings in 30 Days #9 Study of Abbey Senanque

Study of Abbey Senanque

Abbey Senanque - Study

Abbey Senanque rests at the foot of a gorge near the perched town of Gordes in the Luberon, Provence. The working monastery harvests and sells their local crop of lavender to help support the abbey. It's a spectacular site in June when the lavender is in full bloom. The aroma is equally as magnificent. This was painted as a demo for the guests at the chateau retreat for artists. But it was left unfinished until today, when I completed it for this challenge. 

The linen panel was bought in Avignon and the size is almost 8" x 8". Probably 20cm x 20cm.

Oil on Mounted Linen Panel. 8" x 8" (20cm x 20cm)

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30 Paintings in 30 Days #6 Terrace Sunshine

Terrace Sunshine

Uneven slabs of ancient stone, sunlight playing with advancing shadows, dust motes suspended in summer air - humming cicadas and bumble bees. Pass my paints please.

6" x 6" Oil on Archival Board.
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30 Paintings in 30 Days #3 Luberon Village

Luberon Village

Finding villages like this one is what 'traveling' in France is all about. These are place where tourist buses don't go. Every one has its own unique charm and this is what we set out to paint when we find them. This is Joucas, charming little village - a stop on our 'Lavender Route' when we paint there in June.

6" x 6" Oil on Archival Board.
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Provence - Wooden Door

Provence - Wooden Door. 8" x 8" Study, sold

My only new year's resolution was to actually blog, and blog often. My life has changed drastically over then last 15 months with moving the studio, my house, kid's school, family business and all of that - so I now have the life I want and all there is to do now, is just live it.

With that, I'm working on new paintings for the Addison Art Gallery on Cape Cod and promoting two trips to Provence this year. I'm pretty stoked about June because the lavender will be in full bloom. This will be a first for me and I can't wait to get sketching and painting there.

The painting shown above, Wooden Doorway was painted on one of my September art retreats. (Another glorious time to visit the region.) It's the building on a little plateau above the chateau - our home base for the tour. I have a great group photo taken in from in front of this old doorway - I should be finishing editing that pretty soon and I'll post it then.