It was a beautiful break after a few weeks of rain. I took a chance for a walk with my pochade paintinIg gear. Sitting on the seat with an irrestable view in front of me. I couls not help but get the colors out. Because tthe seat was on the walk track so before I knew it I was talking and doing live demo to a half of a dozen people walking by. How many chance we can talk to by walkers and their dogs about impressionism! I was happy with the result.
New Zealand Landscape Watercolor Painting on paper Popular Classic Postcard or Pochade size 6 x 8 inches or 15 x 20 cm , USD $95 Original Fine Art for Sale Ideal as gift, hanging on its own or in groups due to small size
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En Plein Air painting at the Royal Akarana Yatch Club
New Zealand Landscape Watercolor Painting on paper Popular Classic Postcard or Pochade size 6 x 8 inches or 15 x 20 cm , USD $95 Ideal as gift, hanging on its own or in groups due to small size
After a heavy storm sweeping North of the North Island leaving 5,000 hectares of farmland under water, we went to paint. There wasn't much damage at the boat club except a little yacht was tilled over. It made a good pose with a bit of sunlight on it. I captured this image as a record for the memory of the surprised storm July 2014 which broke the local perception of a Winterless North Island! It was probably the first time few thousand homes of the population experienced a few winter night without electricity! A cool grayish tone was used for the lingering effect of the storm, warm colors were used in the foreground to depict the warm light that we enjoyed at the moment of painting. We had a great time. I am happy finishing the picture with a warm cup of herbal tea and a nut bar. It was a wonderful treat!
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The garden of a 15th Century chateau over looking river La Loire. A combination of beautiful historic building and plants, a mixed style of courtyard and garden grandeur, seamless flow between formal and informal garden structure and a hint of the view beyond. A continuity from the past into the future, a design that suggests a passage into time and timelessness. All these elements of the royal garden ensure visitors an unforgettable experience!
Amboise Garden Watercolor Painting on paper Popular Classic Postcard or Pochade size 6 x 8 inches or 15 x 20 cm , USD $95 Ideal as gift, hanging on its own or in groups due to small size
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This beautiful village of central France seems to always have a tiny population. In 1793 the population was 700. According to 2009 survey, population of Montresor was 330. It is a sleeping beauty that welcomes visitors with a chance for quiet and intimate discoveries.
Wonderful Central France Village Watercolor Painting on paper
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Add to previous painings is another piece of garden in Lourmarin. Bringing these images together, you could have a feel and more complete view of gardening in a small French village.
Wonderful French Provence Village Watercolor Painting on paper Popular Classic Postcard or Pochade size 6 x 8 inches or 15 x 20 cm , USD $95 Ideal as gift, hanging on its own or in groups due to small size
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If you have a chance painting in a club house or a group, you might come up with an observation on the different expression of your friends during the painting process. The effect of the process on the painters made me think. It was not the picture which is the end result. Sometimes the sale of art work took away the essence of the art by itself. I do not blame but actually congratulate and admire artists that can make a living out of paintings. The point is the majority of us enjoy painting after a working, a family or a career life like myself. We delay and delay the inclination toward art until we were set free of all usual duties. The sale is not really significant and random here and there. The financial effect is not great. So what do we get? The enjoyment of the process. You might have a wee laugh but that's the point. I painted all sort of sizes. At a start I thought big picture gave big pleasure so I went big and sometimes told others to try with big pictures. It does not cost much and of course we can afford it. SO I started with a big treat! At the same time I noted quiet content, peaceful and delight from those doing small paintings around me. I also looked at the Daily Painters trend in USA. In UK there were so many faithful with a small painting box like Trevor Chamberlain that made me think. One day when I was on my own I tried going down scale to see whether I got the effect of small painting. I DID. It was peaceful! Why? Because of the scale the focus was on the whole painting all the time. The mind and the hand had a 100% natural cooperation, the colors and composition locked in and the painting was finished with ease. That's means I can paint faster and I can paint more. Small paintings Pochade style gave painters freedom. You do not really have to be inside, do not really need a studio. More to enjoy varieties of scene that spice up your senses. Small paintings are more affordable and invite the creativity from the collectors who love to change and vary the view by rearranging them. It's a WIN WIN situation! A lot more fun Just a little warning! Like any other enjoyment of life POCHADE Painting can be quite addictive. I can't find enough time for it! Fun, Peaceful, Content, Tasty and Lively is the world of Pochade box painters!
Trevor Chamberlain is the legend of the British pochade box with about 6,000 paintings and he is still going! I'd like to have some fun too. So I search for something similar for watercolor pochade lady style! Didn't find anything that I like or haven't got. So I stuck with what I used to do.
I bought a pocket painting set from a French art shop few years ago just because the lady in the shop was introducing it to me. I agreed to give it a go because she said I 'd love it. During the time I did not know how it would fit into what I was doing. A3 was my normal size even when I was painting outdoors. Then the winter came I was having a quiet time I looked at the little paint box and realize it was made with an ability to adapt to 6" x 8" pochade style painting! I started to try with a landscape and found amazing what a little piece of paper can hold, the whole composition! I painted a series of French towns then I went for a walk and painted a picture from a seat where by walkers came and have a chat. I did not feel nervous when some one came and talked to me during the process. It was the opposite. I found I was enjoying painting and talking at the same time and people did not mind if I did not stop and looking at them. The painting was finished on spot. I did not realise that I was doing a live demo! I took it to outdoors painting with a group at a yatch club. Surprise I could paint a marine scene on site and finished it after a chat a cupa a relax moment!
The advantage of small painting gear is it can go with me wherever I go. I can paint anything any moment that suits. I found new kind of confidence and freedom. I enjoy the little box.
Small paintings is rather personal and more intimate because you have to be quite close to enjoy it! Small painting does not invade so much space. They are easier to handle! They are more affordable and offer an endless possibilities to enrich collectors taste and view by rearrange or grouping them. Small paintings are lots of fun! small paintings, small price but the skill level is the same. I find them rather charming and tasty! Don't you?
The little box opens endless possibilities! Try it! You might have a pleasant surprise! I call it a disappearing studio. a disappearing world a world retreat into personal pleasure! Private and intimacy!
By organizing small paintings in one wall, a special view or journey is created. Small paintings for small towns hold a sense of intimacy. The feelings that survive many remote villages in Europe. Small wonders, small surprises sprung up here and there and everywhere in small places. In this case it was the conifer thriving in a tiny corner with a companion of a climber on a tiny roof caught my interest! The contrast of the two plant species were the symbols of man and wife in many cultures. These two plants are actually married! They are there for one another! That's the art of gardening in a French village. People are not just cultivating plants but relationships that help to survive many ancient villages in France! That's the beauty!
Very Charming French Provence Village Watercolor Painting on paper
Popular Classic Postcard or Pochade size 6 x 8 inches or 15 x 20 cm , USD $95
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Conifers have a life span that ranges from a few decades to more than 5,000 years. Looking at the history of Lourmarin. The village has been settled for at least a thousand years, and was probably a Neolithic campsite before that. A fortress was first built at the site in the 12th century, and was rebuilt by Foulques d'Agoult in the 15th century on the foundations of the earlier castle. It was restored in 1920. In 1545 the town was burned down because its population was predominantly Waldensian protestant.
Its present mayor (2001-2008, 2008-2014) is Blaise Diagne, grandson of the like-named first Black African deputy and member of a French government.
After all ups and downs, this conifer stood in the corner, like a faithful friend waiting to say hello! A rare friendship sprung out of a something like an impossible place! that's the conifer of Lourmarin!
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