Beynac on The Dordogne river
Castelnaud on the banks of the Dordogne River
Evening at Dome from Vitrac
Recently a friend and very talented artist, Peter Robson, gave a workshop which included ideas for silhouette paintings. I have tried it here with the view of Dome in the Dordogne from our hotel. Thanks Peter!
Monpazier is a Bastide town in the Lot and Garonne region of France, well worth a visit.
A street in San Gimignano in Tuscany. San Gimignano is famous for its 14th century towers.
The view of San Gimignano from La Lucciolaia Agriturismo, just 3 Kms away.
Tuscan farm with sunflowers near Volterra
A field of poppies in Tuscany
Hi Everbody
We are very fortunate to be able to spend some time on the Cote d Azur in the South of France.
With UK weather remaining unsettled it was so great to feel the sun and enjoy Provence and the Coast.
Just enough time to paint a few quick watercolours. Provence has great scenes around every corner, sometimes I like to combine various scenes into a painting and so that is what I have done with a couple of these. The beautiful fields, vineyards and farms seem to make the sun shine even brighter, which is fine for the watercolourist.
If you have the chance do drive from Mandelieu la Napoule via Theoule to Agay and on to St Raphael. This coast road is really spectacular with the red rocks of the Esterel mountains going down to the azure blue sea. It is one of the finest coastal drives anywhere!
Included here are a couple of older paintings of this area together with the recent ones painted last week.
I hope you will enjoy looking at them as much as I have in painting them.
Enjoy the sun if you can find it!
Farmhouses in Provence
Mougins
Vineyard in Provence
Callian from Tourettes
Agay on the Esterel
The bay at Theoule
The Esterel coast at Miramar
This January we managed to have a few days on the Cote d’Azur , escaping quite lot of snow and disruption tin the UK.
Although even there we had some rain, we also had beautiful sunshine and some welcome warmth.
We spent one day visiting friends in San Remo and Dolce Acqua, just across the border in Italy. The old towns of both are quite amazing. I have included here one painting from our last visit to San Remo in 2011, but the others I managed to do last weekend. Also there is a watercolour of the view from Villefranche across to Port Passable on Cap Ferrat. We love Villefranche where you can sit at the waters edge and enjoy both the view, and a great lunch. If you are ever there do visit the Chapelle St Pierre at the waterfront. Inside there are wonderful murals by Jean Cocteau.
Back now in the UK, the snow is still here and it is a lot colder, maybe spring will arrive soon!
I hope you enjoy these four paintings.
Dolce Acqua, Liguria
Port Passable ,Cap Ferrat from Villefranche
In the old town of San Remo
San Siro, from Via Palma, San Remo
Dec 10
This gallery contains 14 photos.
So here we are in December, with mixed feelings about the weather. Snow at Christmas can be beautiful, and a headache for travel. Snow in the countryside can be very picturesque and then a real pain for the days after as the snow becomes slushy and lingers about! From a painting point of view though […]
It seems pretty grey here in November, not much colour as the leaves fall and the fog never lifts all day.
To cheer things up here are a few paintings with colour. Provence scenes, New England trees and brightly painted French houses.
Maybe spring will come early in 2013!
Enjoy and feel the sun on these cold days.
It is no real surprise that Churches offer the painter a great subject, often as the focal point of a painting.
Looking through some of my watercolours of the past few years there are many with Churches featured in them. The beautiful architecture of Churches and their often prominent locations provides an exciting subject for me in many paintings.
Some of these are painted as they may have been in the past, to help illustrate family history events , whilst others just bring the subject together in a pleasing way (to me anyway!).
I have gathered together in this large post some from my archives of painting from various locations around Europe.
I hope you enjoy seeing them, I am sure many will have visited them on their own holidays.
Well back in the South of France again, this time in splendid October weather. October is often a great time of year to be in this area, with blue skies and a temperature of 25 C.we ave also been lucky enough to have been invited to a wedding in a beautiful Chateau near Le Muy.
Not a lot of time to paint but here are afew nonetheless. We also managed a quick boat trip from St Maxime to St Tropez. It is the best way to get to St Tropez,avoiding the traffic. Quick lunch in the little back streets of St Tropez and then back to the ferry.
it is so good to enjoy the beautiful weather at this time of year and the Wedding was just terrific!
It has always been fun to paint pictures with boats in them. I have blogged some of these before but here are some new ones painted during this summer as well.
Sadly the fishing boat on Littlestone beach was burned out and destroyed in 2009 , it was a lovely fishing boat.
I hope you enjoy looking at them as much as I did in painting them.
Happy travels!
Fairhead on the Antrim Coast
The summer has seen us take short trips to France, and Northern Ireland. There have been a few opportunities to paint quickly and also to paint a couple of watercolours from photos of Florence, as my son and his wife had just visited there and it is always nice to remember times that we spent there.
At least in France we had some sun, a rare thing it seems in the UK this year! Maybe if the weather improves we will be able to get outside to paint, if not its back to the photos!
The North Antrim coast is one of the most spectacular in the world, and we have been lucky this year to have been to three of the most famous coastlines in the world; the West coast of California, the Esterel coast in Provence and the Antrim coast in Northern Ireland
Pebble Beach on the Monterey Peninsula
. I have repeated a couple of previous paintings of these three coasts here to remind us of their beauty.
St Paul de Vence
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We like to return to Cannes as often as possible but this year playing with the grandchildren has curtailed the painting somewhat! No complaints however of course!
Anyway here are a few paintings that I have managed to do this summer of the South of France where as ever the weather was wonderful.
Maybe over the coming months I will find more time to look at all the photos and paint some more from the area.
Lovely evocative paintings.
The sold painting of Methoni is now loaded on artfinder.com/brianswatercolours Aboutv2 weeks to pain
Hi Natalie I am afaid these painting with one exception were sold of given to our friends after the
Are you interested in selling one of these?
Hi Brian, My husband and I are in Tunbridge Wells visiting friends. I wondered if you would be inter
Lovely reminders of a beautiful coastline.
Many thanks Kathryn Painting has been and is such a wonderful thing for me Good luck with the writin
Hi Andrea Many thanks Our house there was great and mostly lovely weather Love Brian
