Watercolour Paper Samples
Which Watercolour Paper Do I Choose? When starting out with watercolours, the sheer number and variety of papers on offer can be quite daunting. In choosing a watercolour paper, there are a number of factors to take into consideration. The main consideration will always be in the first instance, how thick it is, and importantly […]
Seafaring
Hastings Contemporary The Stade, Rock-a-Nore, Hastings 30 April 2022 to 25 September 2022 After a long absence we finally were able to re-visit Hastings Contemporary, formerly The Jerwood Gallery, located on the Stade, right next to the beach, where we saw their latest exhibition “Seafaring”. The fifty works are predominantly British and range from the […]
Lumière d’Opale
Musée du Touquet-Paris-Plage “The Etaples Art Colony between 1880-1920” A beautiful sunny day tempted us to get in the car and travel to Le Touquet and visit the exhibition being held in this lovely little museum, situated just outside the town. The exhibition focuses on the art colony that grew up along the Côte D’Opale, […]
Paul Klee – Between Worlds
LAM – Lille Métropole Musée d’art moderne (Paul Klee 1879-1940) It’s been a long time since we have been able to report on any art gallery visits or exhibitions, but we have finally managed to do just that! A few days ago we visted the Paul Klee exhibition, “Entre Mondes” or“Between Worlds”, at the Museum […]
Côté Jardin
Côté Jardin: Monet to Bonnard After recently spending a few days in Normandy and the Orne, we returned home via the village of Giverny, now world-famous as the home of Monet and his celebrated garden, to visit our first exhibition in almost a year! Our self-portrait in the exhibition’s poster However, we were not there […]
Jean-Pierre Champdavoine
“Gardens” an Exhibition of Watercolours by Jean-Pierre Champdavoine at Nogent-le-Rotrou A few days ago we were visiting the town of Nogent-le-Rotrou, in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France. It was a rare day of sunshine and a bit of warmth after days of wind, rain and cold. There, we went to the Château des Comtes […]
Another Lockdown Sunday
Hello from Danny and Val! Just as you in the UK are readying yourselves to start to ease Lockdown, we in France are still semi-confined to quarters, allowed to go no more than 10km – a tad more than 6 miles – and still with a curfew in place from 7pm to 6am (so hardly […]
Novus Art Challenge #14
Transcription Project “Copier, c’a été l’éducation de presque tous les grands maîtres. […] On copiait tout ce qui nous tombait sous la main, d’œuvres d’artistes contemporains ou antérieurs” [Copying was the education of virtually all the great masters…we copied everything that came our way, be it the work of contemporary artists or that of previous […]
Novus Great Art Challenge #13
Tonal Painting – Part 2 The last Challenge #12 we set you using only two colours – Burnt Sienna and Ultramarine Blue, was a first of this type for many of you and, not surprisingly, caused a few problems. Therefore, rather than simply ticking this one off and moving onto something else, we have decided […]
Novus Great Art Challenge #12
2-Colour Painting! We are now into our 13th week Challenges – with to date over 130 paintings and drawings submitted! For this week’s challenge there is no “Theme” as we have had previously. Rather the challenge we are setting for you this time could be considered a more ‘technical’ one! But fear not, nothing too […]