I will be having an exhibition in our village in March 2020 and I thought it might be an opportunity, as preparation, to use the village as a model. Of course, just simply painting the village from different perspectives does not really appeal to me, for some reason. The background is what a friend of mine called 'le plan cadastral du village' and she was absolutely right. Onto the 'plan cadastral' I placed one view of the village. There is a lot of water on the painting because we had a very, very wet winter either last year or the year before. When I put the houses on the canvas, I did not think about direction and it is possible the whole thing would look better if it had been the other way around, since now there is a lot of water at the top. Still, that is where most of the water came from, so I suppose that is quite acceptable. The painting is about 1m80 by 1m50 - well, something like that. It is big and it is on a stretcher frame that weighs a ton (figuratively) and that might be one of the reasons why I did not think to turn it over.
I have done another buildings painting on four canvasses that I dismantled today because I needed the easel.
This one is much smaller. I think each canvas is about 30cm x 30cm. It is now in four pieces and that might have been a mistake because I'm not sure it is finished. If it is finished, it is because I have moved onto something else and if it is not finished that means I will move back onto it. Who knows?!
I have not posted anything for an eternity. I have been busy painting and writing - still working on that book, which is in french at the moment. I sometimes wonder if I should not put at least some of these postings in french... Still, now that I have two members and both are english-languaged, I think it might be nicer to continue in english. So many dilemmas. Welcome to you new members.
Au cas où il y aurait des lecteurs francophones, j'explique: je vais faire une exposition de mes peintures dans le village au mois de Mars 2020, et je me suis dit que ce serait peut-être bien d'en profiter pour faire quelques toiles de vues du village. Ca me change un peu. Bien entendu, simplement peindre des vues n'était pas possible. Le premier tableau, qui est grand (les mesures approximatives sont plus haut), est sur fond de plan cadastral du village - ainsi nommé par une amie - et sur lequel j'ai simplement ajouté une vue du village. Le deuxième, beaucoup plus petit, est sur quatre petites toiles qui sont maintenant séparées parce que j'avais besoin du chevalet.
Je ne sais pas si l'une ou l'autre toile est terminée. Je me suis lancée dans d'autres travaux. J'y reviendrai peut-être, ou pas. Si elles sont terminées c'est parce que je fais autre chose, et si elles ne sont pas terminées c'est parce que j'y reviendrai. Qui sait!?
Ca fait longtemps que je n'ai pas écrit sur ce site. Je peins et j'écris - encore et toujours ce livre qui est maintenant en français, du moins pour le moment. Je vais tâcher de me coller à cette version. Tous ces départs, une fois en anglais, une fois en français, commençant plus tôt, commençant plus tard, ça ne mène nulle part. Je m'applique donc.
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