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יום שלישי, 6 בנובמבר 2018

Summer time in Normandie, France • L'été sur la plage de Dieppe, Normandie

ENGLISH (la traduction française suit)

This summer I went to spend few days in Normandie, in the beautiful city of Dieppe ! I had the kids playing around me so I had to stay mainly in the beach area to sketch, but I got many stories happening around me that kept me busy with my sketchbook…

My favorite spot to draw was the red lecture cabin "Lire à la plage" (Read on the beach) where the municipality of Dieppe offers people comfortable seats and nice books to read, no mobile phone allowed ! Here you can see 3 generations of people enjoying books, or making activities with their kids: Origami, painting on stones or playing games…

People reading books ! It sounds amazing…


No smoking, no food, no sleeping and no mobile phone allowed… and this is full !

The beach is made of big grey stones that make a constant and caracteristic noise when the waves roll over them.

Beautiful view on the Hotel Castel Royal… !

Dieppe is surrounded by high cliffs. People leaving up there see their garden getting smaller and smaller each year, the cliff getting closer to their house !

The southern cliffs of Dieppe, Normandie
The castle became the museum of Dieppe
In a nice coffee shop on the beach, a father and his sons came to play Django Reinardht jazz songs. They kindly waited for me to finish to stand up and pass the hat !

Gipsy music on the beach of Dieppe

I chose this spot to draw the small wooden beach cabins but as I was sketching I could hear all the conversations between old friends gossiping about their neighbors. 
I learned that :
1. You need to wait 4 to 5 years to obtain a cabin which you can rent on a yearly basis. 
2. Miss L. is generally too snobish to say Hello, but yesterday she finally did ! However, she didn't go further in the conversation… 
3. The dog of Mister G. bit the child of N. and (the animal) got sick the day after… Is there a relation between the 2 facts ?

Neighbors and gossips

In order to remain happy, hide yourself, in Dieppe.
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TRADUCTION FRANÇAISE

Cet été, je suis allée passer quelques jours en Normandie, à Dieppe. J'avais les enfants avec moi, je fus donc cantonnée aux alentours de la plage pour dessiner mais je me suis vite aperçue que les sources d'inspiration étaient nombreuses et je me suis bien régalée à remplir mon carnet de croquis…

La cabine rouge de "Lire à la plage"où la municipalité propose au public des sièges et transats confortables avec une variété de livres à disposition, devint vite mon quartier général. D'autant plus que, fait rare et appréciable, l'usage des téléphones mobiles n'y est pas autorisé ! On y observe 3 générations de gens se régalant seul ou en famille de littérature adulte et jeunesse, BD et livres d'art mis à leur disposition. S'ajoutent des activités sympathiques et familiales telles que les ateliers d'origami, de peinture sur galets ou de jeux de société…

Légendes :
1. La plage est constituée de gros galets gris faisant un bruit caractéristique quand les vagues roulent dessus.

2. La ville de Dieppe est entourée de hautes falaises. Les gens habitant tout en haut voient leur jardin reculer au fur et à mesure des années, le bord de la falaise se rapprochant de leur maison.

3. Dans un café, un père et ses fils jouaient du Django Reinardht, ils ont gentillement attendu que je finisse de les croquer tous les 3 pour se lever et passer le chapeau !

4. J'ai tout d'abord choisi ce lieu pour croquer les cabines en bois, mais tout en dessinant, je n'ai pas pu m'empécher d'écouter la conversation de ces vieux amis de plage disant du mal de leurs voisins.
J'ai ainsi appris que :
a. Il faut attendre 4 à 5 ans pour obtenir la location annuelle d'un cabine.
b. Mme L. est généralement trop snob pour dire bonjour, mais finalement hier, elle s'est lancée. La conversation ne fut pourtant pas poursuivit…
c. Le chien de Mr G. a mordu l'enfant se N. et (l'animal) est tombé malade le lendemain. Il y a t'il une relation de cause à effet ?

יום שלישי, 23 באוקטובר 2018

Few days in Lisbon I Part 2

Here are the sketches I did this summer in Lisbon in my Leuchtturm1917 sketchbook dedicated to people…

I was staying in the area of Principe Real, near Bairro Alto, so there are of course a lot of drawings made in bars at night and in botanical garden during the day !

Happy hispter in a bar of Bairro Alto
Dinner at Time out market
Faces in a Bairro Alto bar
The chippest beers from Bairro Alto and the cakes from the day before but we felt like partying here all night long…
Principe Real Botanical garden 
Esplanada café in the Botanical garden, Principe Real 
The owner of this bar and his friends seemed to be set here for the 4 last decades
I am amazed by the quality of the hipster's haircuts in Lisbon… So much in control !

יום חמישי, 11 באוקטובר 2018

Few days in Lisbon I Part 1

After the Symposium of Urban sketchers in Porto, we went to spend 5 days in Lisbon with my husband. Full of the creative energy received previously, I kept on drawing Lisbon that I was discovering for the first time. Here also I divided my drawings into two different sketchbooks:  the moleskine for the colorful sketches… and the Leuchtturm1917 for the people. You will discover the second one in a next post.

First place you go when you arrive after 5 days of traveling ? The public laundry !

Second place you go ? To rent a motocycle and sketch while your husband is closing the deal !

Gracia neighborhood, The lady of the hill square : an amazing view on Lisbon

We staid between Bairro alto and Principe real. Very funny trendy bars to sketch at night…

… and more classy streets of Principe Real during the day !

Few sketches of LX Factory block, cool place to hang out !

Fancy restaurant in LX Factory

A shop in LX Factory 

 LX Factory again

Window shopping at night in Principe Real… Super sad but very unexpected model to draw.

The entry of our street


Our courtyard

יום שלישי, 18 בספטמבר 2018

Urban Sketchers Symposium 2018 in Porto I Part 2

Porto became one of the favorite destination for tourism in Europe.
The city definitely deserves this attention for its beauty but also for the kindness of its locals !

I kept the sketchbook offered during the symposium by the sponsor LEUCHTTURM1917 to draw the people I met there. To remind me of the atmosphere between the sketchers during the symposium, portraiting people from all around the world, so happy to meet again in Porto…

Openning reception in Alfândega do Porto
Openning reception in Alfândega do Porto
Openning reception in Alfândega do Porto
Openning reception in Alfândega do Porto
Drink and draw meeting in Ribeira square
Drink and draw meeting in Ribeira square
Drink and draw meeting in Ribeira square
Final sketchcrawl in Praça da Liberdade
Final sketchcrawl in Praça da Liberdade
Closing reception in Alfândega do Porto
Closing reception in Alfândega do Porto
Closing reception in Alfândega do Porto • The 3 great correspondants
Closing reception in Alfândega do Porto
… Then I sketched also people in the streets, locals taking care of their guests or having a nice meal in a small restaurant.

Near Alfândega do Porto • Refugio 112
Near Alfândega do Porto • Refugio 112
Refugio 112 • 112 rua Armenia (Near Alfândega do Porto)
Nina, the daughter of the owner, watched me sketching the 2 previous drawings so I asked her to stand in front of me to do her portrait
Dona Arepa, Venezuelian food • 221 rua de Cedofeita
Churrasqueira • 136 Campo Martires da Patria
Thanks to all the organizers, the volunters
My last and next post about Porto will be about the workshops I attended… 

יום רביעי, 12 בספטמבר 2018

Urban Sketchers Symposium 2018 in Porto I Part 1


In July took place in Porto, Portugal the 9th Symposium of Urban sketchers. I was lucky enough to be there and enjoy the beauty of the city and the kindness of the locals ! The city offers many angles to sketch, it's very colorfull, light and shades are very contrasted due to the sun but also because of the narrow small streets. It always takes time for me to figure out what techniques to use to describe and be truthfull towards what I have in front of my eyes… Here are my sketches, trying different approaches in my Moleskine sketchbook.


Lamy fountain pen ink and watercolor
Lamy fountain pen ink and watercolor
Lamy fountain pen ink and watercolor
Watercolor and watercolor pencils
Watercolor and watercolor pencils
Here is a funny story… I did this following drawing from the window of my guesthouse the first day I arrived. The building on the other side of the street was a ruin and the roof full of holes. The windows were broken but still, but you could still see the beauty of the windows… 

Watercolor and watercolor pencils
… Workers started to come the next morning and demolish the roof… 5 days later, I did another drawing:  the roof totally disappeared and I could discover the iron work of the staircase inside. 
Does this building still exist today ?

Lamy fountain pen ink and watercolor
I tryed here to work in direct watercolor, which is not my habit…

Watercolor
Watercolor
Watercolor
And to finish this post, I want to show you a playfull attempt with ink and collage, stealing my son's (used) origami papers to evokes the azulejos of Porto, the colorful ceramics on the buildings…

Pentel brush pen and collage
Japanese brush pen and collage
Collage with origami paper
I guess that you will wonder where is the huge amount of people I could meet in Porto… In a next post, I will show the sketches I did of the funny faces of tourists, sketchers and locals I drew in the LEUCHTTURM1917 sketchbook offered by the sponsor during the symposium !