30 Paintings in 30 Days #20 Castillion Village

Castillion Village

Castillion Village

One of the loveliest villages is this medieval one in the Gard region of Provence. It's not too far from Pont du Gard the Roman aqueduct, a magnificent yet busy attraction. There is a vantage point from this village where you can see it off in the distance. Whereas here, you get to paint with the local kids playing on the church steps, an elderly woman walking by with a baguette for her evening meal. (Subjects for another painting!) I'll keep village on the itinerary.

Oil on archival board. 8" x 7.5"

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30 Paintings in 30 Days #16 Small Boat, Mediterranean

#16 Small Boat

Back to French related images. After the chateau retreat, I headed south down to the sea. Every evening, a table by the water, a different restaurant, another menu to choose from. This particular evening we ate "moules et frites" near the yacht club and its pricey flotilla. However, it was this little fishing boat, equipment stowed under canvas that caught my eye to paint. 

Oil on archival board. 6" x 6"

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30 Paintings in 30 Days #5 Lavage En Plein Air - Hanging out the Washing

Lavage En Plein Air - Hanging out the Washing

Lavage En Plein Air

French people wonder why I would want to paint their laundry. Don't they get it? Their laundry is just more picturesque than ours. Seriously, why plug in a tumble dryer when nature provides? 
6" x 6" Oil on Archival Board.
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30 in 30 -Day 1 - Evening Star - Provence

Thirty Paintings in 30 days. Day 1

Evening Star

An evening view from the upper terrace at the Château. Dusk arrives, the birds grow silent and the first evening star appears. I stop to admire the light on the church tower. A quiet moment after happily painting in a French vineyard and right before sitting down to a dinner with my artist friends. Salut!

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.