St Foy la Grande, France, Watercolour, 15" x 11"
Something summery for a late autumn posting and a bit of warm and cool here on the Rue Louis Pasteur in the market town of St Foy la Grande.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.
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This painting is for sale. Please contact Tim Wilmot for details.
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St Foy la Grande, France, 15" x 11"
For some reason, a street scene without people! Not usual for me. I suspect my reference photo was taken after the Saturday Market, mid afternnon in summer and devoid of anyone. Makes a change. If I had to include a figure, I probably would have sneaked one in one the right hand side, joining the middle ground to the background.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.
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St Foy la Grande, France, Watercolour, 15" x 11"
Place Jean Jaures, painted here just after the Saturday market has ended. So fewer people and an easier scene to paint. Here and not so often for me, I paint with the sun behind me, so casting some tricky shadows across the scene and a little more difficult to get figures looking right.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.
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This painting is for sale. Please contact Tim Wilmot for details.
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Bergerac, France, Watercolour, 15" x 11"
One of the old streets in Bergerac, SW France. A favourite spot for me to paint. So many painting opportunities, especially on a sunny day where you can get some interesting shadows being cast over the scene. I went quite dark and cool on this one for the shadows to give maximum contrast with the warmth above.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.
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This painting is for sale. Please contact Tim Wilmot for details.
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Dordogne, France, 15" x 11"
Late afternoon sun over the square in Villefrance de Lonchat. Edges in watercolour, they are important. So soft edge on the rooftops (so the sky wash was still damp and I paint the rooftops with slight thicker reddish paint so it does not bleed into the sky and create a mess) and hard edges on some of the shadow details on the church.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.
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St Foy la Grande, France, Watercolour, 15" x 11"
I tend to always paint around a figure and a car when doing a wash, even though in this case, some of the cars are in the shadows. Then when painting the cars, I try to get the right value for the body, and they while still damp, carefully blend with a brush into the surround and introduce some darker shadows below the car.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.
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This painting is for sale. Please contact Tim Wilmot for details.
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Perigueux, France, Watercolour, 15" x 11"
I wanted a 'U' shape of darker values in this around the bottom half and up the sides, to frame a lighter area in the middle ground and background, then some darker verticals against that lighter area. Inject a few figures - light against dark, dark against light works in watercolour so well I think.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms
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Perigueux, France, Watercolour, 15" x 11"
An unusual building overlooking the River L'Isle in Perigueux, France. An old mill, or medieval watch tower, with lovely timber clad outer walls, and very well preserved. The scene is a sort of slipway running up from the river to the main road and the centre of the city. I thought a figure half in the shadows worked quite well in the composition.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.
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This painting is for sale. Please contact Tim Wilmot for details.
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Perigueux, France, Watercolour, 15" x 11"
An unusual building overlooking the River L'Isle in Perigueux, France. An old mill, or medieval watch tower, with lovely timber clad outer walls, and very well preserved. The scene is a sort of slipway running up from the river to the main road and the centre of the city. I thought a figure half in the shadows worked quite well in the composition.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.
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This painting is for sale. Please contact Tim Wilmot for details.
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Saint Martin de Gurson, France, Watercolour, 15" x 11"
A pretty village in SW France. Now I did a video of this one, but no commentary added to it as yet. Worth publishing? It did end up being quite blue for some reason. Maybe I was trying to use up the cobalt. But it sort of works with a little warmth from the left hand wall.
Painted on Saunders Waterford, Cold Press, 300 gms.
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This painting is for sale. Please contact Tim Wilmot for details.
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