Here are some drawings I did this summer in Drôme provençale in the south of France. We rented a house in Poët-Laval, a funny name for a beautiful medieval village…
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A fig tree in a small street of Poët-Laval |
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A restaurant in a medieval building of Poët-Laval |
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A small passage in Poët-Laval |
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Always nice to draw family around ! |
5 kilometers from Poët-Laval, you can visit Dieulefit, the closest city where they have a gorgous street market once a week during the summer…
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To carry the fruits and vegetables you bought in the market, you need of course a nice and big bag… |
Nearby, you can go to La Fontaine Minérale, in Pont-Barret where you eat excellent french gastronomy and on saturday nights of summer, listen and dance at the "guinguette"…
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A big english bus where the crew is actually sleeping… |
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Naya enjoying her strawberry ice cream… |
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Toam prefered his green lemon one… |
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First sketch before I painted on my Moleskine sketchbook… |
In Paris, I found some time to work a bit on parisian roofs
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The park behind my old apartment, in Montmartre |
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Some black and white attempts… |
your travel sketches are such a treasure!
השבמחקfamily portraits and places you traveled to - all these are inside your sketchbook so much stronger
memories than photographs!
As usual, various techniques an approaches - wonderful!
So beautiful and inspiring!!
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