Wheatfields III

oil on Daler Board - Öl auf Daler Karton - huile sur carton Daler
20 cm x 20 cm / 7,9" x 7,9"
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It's more about the sky than the wheatfields really, isn't it?

Wheatfields II

oil on canvas panel - Öl auf Malplatte - huile sur carton entoilé
20 cm x 20 cm / 7,9" x 7,9"
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Another approach of the same subject. I personally prefer this one but plan to do a few more, as I took some great photographs as reference on my way. Now, I am in London for the time being and soon you will be seeing quite different paintings here...

Wheatfields

oil on canvas panel - Öl auf Malplatte - huile sur carton entoilé
20 cm x 20 cm / 7,9" x 7,9"
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Driving through central France you come past seemingly endless golden wheatfields, wavering beautifully with the wind. I loved the abstract composition they formed together with the sky, the woods and farms on the horizon.

French Bench

acryliques on canvas - Acryl auf Leinwand - acryliques sur toile
20 cm x 20 cm / 7,9" x 7,9"
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This is so French - the window with it's small glass panes and the white bench with curly iron details, both framed by ivy and hollyhocks!

Cool Inside

acryliques on canvas - Acryl auf Leinwand - acryliques sur toile
20 cm x 20 cm / 7,9" x 7,9"
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I worked on a slightly larger format here, which I like a lot. It's quite surprising what a change a couple of inches do to the feeling while painting - there seemed to be so much more space.

Under the Parasol

acryliques on canvas panel - Acryl auf Malplatte - acryliques sur carton entoilé
15 cm x 15 cm / 5,9" x 5,9"
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Morning Orange

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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Golden Light

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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St.Martial Viveyrol

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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Back in France with beautiful weather. The farmers and gardeners though are desperate because it hasn't rained for two months and the soil is bone dry. I pass this village on the way to my friend Karin with whom I sometimes walk in the morning.

Karin's Tulips

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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Although I had intended to paint one or two more spanish scenes, I couldn't resist these beautiful tulips in my friend's garden. Guess, that means I have finely really arrived in France! Adieu Spain...

Roadworks

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 is what I saw, looking out of my front door in the other direction than the day before. Colourful workmen in bright sunshine.

Snow in Verteillac

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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An unusual sight for this time of year awaited me when I stepped out of our front door in the morning. Snow in Southwest France before January! Never had that before, at least not in the last 15 years. A great view to paint for me!

Through Snow 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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Same journey as yesterday's, with splatters on the windscreen. I prefer this one.

Summer in France

oil on canvas - Öl auf Leinwand - huile sur toile
25 cm x 75 cm / 9,8" x 29,5"
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For those who visit my blog sometimes this may look familiar to you. It is a new take on one of my recent paintings (In a French Hallway), which I felt lent itself to a larger format and a different composition. I am quite pleased with how the light coming in through the door turned out.

Sun on the Patio

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 concrete wall can be very beautiful. The strong contrast with the sun made all the colours of the old wall in our patio appear much more vibrant.

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.