D 81

oil on canvas panel - Öl auf Malplatte - huile sur carton entoilé
15 cm x 15 cm / 5,9" x 5,9"
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Le Petit Thai II

oil on canvas panel - Öl auf Malplatte - huile sur carton entoilé
15 cm x 15 cm / 5,9" x 5,9"
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Trying to concentrate on the colours and shapes, trying not to tell a story, trying to see it as a painting and not as an illustration, trying to...
trying...

At LE PETIT THAI in Ribérac

oil on canvas - Öl auf Leinwand - huile sur toile
18 cm x 24 cm / 7" x 9,5"
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A great place to have lunch on a hot day!

Check-In

oil on canvas panel - Öl auf Malplatte - huile sur carton entoilé
15 cm x 15 cm / 5,9" x 5,9"
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Waiting for the French ground staff. If you have the luck to meet one, you are a happy person....

Breaking Home Ties

oil on canvas panel - Öl auf Malplatte - huile sur carton entoilé
15 cm x 15 cm / 5,9" x 5,9"
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It was a VERY early flight(!), which meant waiting from 4.30am to 6.30am in the empty hall of the airport.

Early to Bordeaux

oil on canvas panel - Öl auf Malplatte - huile sur carton entoilé
15 cm x 15 cm / 5,9" x 5,9"
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Quite a different scene here, but that's life! One day you're occupied with laundry in a small rural backyard somewhere and the next day you're on your way to the airport in a big city. I love it all!

Sunny Undies

oil on canvas panel - Öl auf Malplatte - huile sur carton entoilé
15 cm x 15 cm / 5,9" x 5,9"
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For Americans this might be an unusual sight, but in Europe it is quite common to hang your undies out on the clothesline with all your other clothes and nobody really takes offence at that. Well, obviously it were not the boxer shorts that aroused my interest here but the wonderful sunlight shining through them!

In a French Hallway

oil on canvas panel - Öl auf Malplatte - huile sur carton entoilé
15 cm x 15 cm / 5,9" x 5,9"
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A scene in a beautiful French house we were invited to lately. Thanks to the thick walls that old French houses usual have, it was pleasantly fresh inside, while the heat outside was nearly unbearable.

Breakfast in Barcelona

oil on canvas panel - Öl auf Malplatte - huile sur carton entoilé
15 cm x 15 cm / 5,9" x 5,9"
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Ah, the good life....

Here They Come

oil on canvas panel - Öl auf Malplatte - huile sur carton entoilé
15 cm x 15 cm / 5,9" x 5,9"
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The weather here in the Dordogne hasn't been great lately and today it has even been raining all day. This summer has definitely been too short! Maybe that's why I feel like painting scenes with bright sunshine, that remind me of the heat and easy going atmosphere of Barcelona.

Summer in the City

oil on canvas panel - Öl auf Malplatte - huile sur carton entoilé
15 cm x 15 cm / 5,9" x 5,9"
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From the small town of Verteillac in France now to sunny Barcelona, where we went to for a few days at the end of June.

Camion Bleu

oil on canvas panel - Öl auf Malplatte - huile sur carton entoilé
15 cm x 15 cm / 5,9" x 5,9"
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This one turned out a bit tighter again - it is so difficult to keep it loose and make just the few necessary brushstrokes of the essential. I always admire watercolourists for their confidence and skill, for you have to know exactly where and how to put down your paint - there's no covering of faults, while I paint mostly by the method of trial and error.

Camion Blanc

oil on canvas panel - Öl auf Malplatte - huile sur carton entoilé
15 cm x 15 cm / 5,9" x 5,9"
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Different interpretation this time - I like it.

Camion Olive

oil on canvas panel - Öl auf Malplatte - huile sur carton entoilé
15 cm x 15 cm / 5,9" x 5,9"
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I enjoyed painting this van on it's own, as I could study the colour a bit more in detail. Green is one of my favourite colours anyway and I love all the different shades here.

Proudly Presented

oil on canvas panel - Öl auf Malplatte - huile sur carton entoilé
15 cm x 15 cm / 5,9" x 5,9"
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Another take on the three beauties of Verteillac, which I personally are more happy with. But that's not it yet....

Three Old Peugeots

oil on canvas panel - Öl auf Malplatte - huile sur carton entoilé
15 cm x 15 cm / 5,9" x 5,9"
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On the outskirts of Verteillac, the village where I now live, they have created a big open space for a future parking lot and someone with a good eye has parked these three fantastic old Peugeot vans right in the middle. It looks like they were on stage, trying to attract as much attention as possible - and of course, beautiful as they are, they do!
I will probably attempt another painting of them.

Pinto and Tippy

oil on canvas panel - Öl auf Malplatte - huile sur carton entoilé
15 cm x 15 cm / 5,9" x 5,9"
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I never thought I would paint rats - and enjoy it! At first I hesitated for a moment, when a young girl from Canada asked me if I would do a portrait of her rats, but then... it was a challenge. In the end I thought they were even quite sweet.

Font Losse

oil on canvas panel - Öl auf Malplatte - huile sur carton entoilé
15 cm x 15 cm / 5,9" x 5,9"
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After two very busy and tiring months, I have started painting again - at last!