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…
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Côté Jardin
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…
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Jean-Pierre Champdavoine
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…
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Another Lockdown Sunday
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…
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Novus Art Challenge #14
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…
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Novus Great Art Challenge #13
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…
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Novus Great Art Challenge #12
Novus Great Art Challenge #11
My Lockdown Companion! We are no longer discussing what is going on - suffice to say you are still there and we are still here in France. unable to re-start…
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Novus Great Art Challenge #11
Novus Great Art Challenge #10
A Random Landscape Unbelievable as it may seem this is our 10th Challenge in the 11th week since we had to close the studio because of Coronavirus! Despite an easing…
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Novus Great Art Challenge #10
Novus Great Art Challenge #9
My Favourite Place Our challenges continue... For this Challenge, we are keeping with the"Favourite" tag. As we are working through the topics it has become clear that that there are…
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Novus Great Art Challenge #9
Novus Great Art Challenge #8
My Favourite Toy Although this week sees a relaxing of the lockdown measures we are still unable to re-open the studio - we can't even leave France at the moment!…
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Novus Great Art Challenge #8