It is Thursday morning in Bergen, Norway, 1,250 miles from Saint Remy in Provence. I learned a lot from Van Gough in Saint Remy. During our time in Oslo, on the way to Bergen, I was exposed to Edward Munch, the prolific Norwegian painter famous for The Scream. Here is one more of the Van…
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Lessons From Van Gogh
While we were in Saint Remy we walked the Van Gogh Trail up to the hospital where he lived in 1888 and 1889. I spent a lot of time thinking about his paintings and made a few observations that are helping me, so I thought I would pass them along. These are in no particular…
An Easy Way To Sketch Flowers
Sketching a bunch of flowers and plants can be a bit daunting. The main reason is that we forget the adage, “sketch what you see, not what you think you see”- we over think it. So here is a quick way to sketch these flowers that were on the terrace at our BnB last night….
Sketching Riffs
Last week we visited Jardin Botanique de Paris. It is a huge botanical garden that also has a large outdoor auditorium and stage. There was no concert going on while we were there but it did sound as if some guitarist were warming up a bit. I heard the a bass player playing runs, and…
A Good Week Sketching, and a Workshop
It has been a good week sketching-wise. First off, I am going to be doing “Yes! You can Travelsketch! “ here in Normandie. Some of our neighbors wanted to learn to travelsketch, so we are going to do a workshop on 10 August at the Chateau de Domfront. Here are a couple photos of past…
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