Wednesday 12. 08. 15 Drove to Nîmes yesterday with Claire to celebrate her birthday. Saw an interesting expo called Biographical Forms and then had a delicious lunch also at the Carrée d’Art.
Journal
Les moutons volants
Monday 10. 08. 15 Was riding along the D15 between Cabières and Roujon when I saw this sign. Didn’t see any flying sheep though!
Birthday
Thursday 06. 08. 15 Rode over to Claire’s in Montpellier to celebrate my birthday. We had a delicious Cambodian lunch – very tasty – and she made me this – a souvenir of my canoeing days in Georgian Bay.
Go Daisy go
Tuesday 04. 08. 15 Did this small painting to celebrate Daisy’s first ride.
Nearly finished
Wednesday 29. 07. 15 More coloured pencil sketches of the canal.
More variations
Saturday 25. 07. 15 More variations on the canal – this time coloured pencil.
More Canal experiments
Friday 24. 07. 15 I have been thinking about combining my drawing and painting and somehow showing both. Using mylar, I drew in the canal on one side and then painted on the other. I also tried using parchment but drawing and painting on the same side and allowing the drawing to show through. I think there will be more experiments to come! Of course I could always use watercolours.
St Médard en Jalles
Tuesday 21. 07. 15 Just back from a weekend at Marie-Pierre and Olivier’s. Visited vineyards, tasted wine, went boating on the Bassin d’Arcachon, visited Blaye, an old fort overlooking the estuary, made new friends, lots of good food and wine and lots of good conversations in French. Un trés, trés bon weekend!
Bastille day
Tuesday 14. 07. 15 Went for a swim at Les Trois Digues this morning and then spent the afternoon in the studio working on a new Canal drawing. Fireworks in the evening.
More tests
Friday 10. 07. 15 Yesterday worked on another monoprint of the second image of the canal and then today tried one using a watercolour crayon just to see what the effect was. I think I might try and colour this last one.