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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 רביעי, 5 באוקטובר 2016

A hut in Switzerland

This is the last collection of sketches from my summer in Europe… We rented with my family a hut in the Swiss Alps and I had the occasion to try out different techniques of sketching in the beautiful village where we staid for 10 days : Foroglio and its surrounding.

The village is located in the italian part of Swiss Alps, the speciality of the Tessin valley is to build very simple houses with no cement, only granit stones piled on each other. The forest around has definitely something magic… You can easily imagine the presence of ferries and small elfes running away and hiding while you go hiking along the small paths passing through huge stones and old trees covered with moss. Everyday is a new light festival of colours on the mountains and on the nearby  waterfall, when the fog is not covering the entire valley.

Before we went to the Tessin valley, we had a stoped in Luzern to visit our dear friends who took real good care of us discover their amazing city on the board of the lake first and the mountain overslooking it. I didn't have much time to sketch but here starts the drawing journey of our trip in Switzerland.

Luzern • Muhlenplatz

Trip in the mountain • Krienseregg

Trip in the mountain • Krienseregg

Foroglio • First attemps to sketch the village… not happy with it !
Our house is the first one in the left until the wooden balcony

Foroglio • Then I tried out the twig remembering KK workshop • Our house
Foroglio

Foroglio • In front of our house, the entry to the forest

Foroglio • In front of our house, the entry to the forest

Foroglio • In front of our house, the entry to the forest

Foroglio

At that point, you have to know that I twisted my inkle so I had to lay down for few days and stop walking… Perfect occasion to sketch what was all around me !



Our terrace in Foroglio

Cevio, first village arriving in the valley

No TV, not internet (almost no electricity !) back to simple life in Foroglio


Fusio • Valley Bavona

In Fusio • Valley Bavona

Fontana • Back to fountain pen
The stream in front of Fontana

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Our terrace, under the vineyard
Our hut from the side
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Our neighbours come to say goodbye

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Last evening in Foroglio • Drawing in the dark