17. 03. 09 Tuesday. Yesterday I finally finished Textured Landscape or at least I think I have finished it. It is quite large 80 x 100 cm and is based on the the hillside just outside Clermont. Also last week I did a couple of small paintings 8″ x 10″ of the local landscape. One is of an old disused railway bridge and the other is near Octon where I go for my engraving class and is of burning the old bits of vines. I am hoping to start a painting of olive trees this week in the textured series based on a couple of olive trees just by the gas station at the HyperU. I have been to two movies, Bellamy by Claude Chabrol with Gérard Depardieu shot in Nimes and Sete and The Wrestler with Mickey Rourke. Depardieu is colossal physically and plays a commissaire de Police on holiday in the south. Quite Maigret-esque and all in French so I think I may have missed a few bits but enjoyed it all the same. Interesting how French actors don’t necessarily have to be in perfect shape altho Mickey Rourke is in interesting physical condition too for his part!!!
