Vacation in France

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…

A fig tree in a small street of Poët-Laval

A restaurant in a medieval building of Poët-Laval

A small passage in Poët-Laval

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… 

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"…

A big english bus where the crew is actually sleeping…

Naya enjoying her strawberry ice cream…

Toam prefered his green lemon one…

First sketch before I painted on my Moleskine sketchbook…

In Paris, I found some time to work a bit on parisian roofs

The park behind my old apartment, in Montmartre

Some black and white attempts…

Jaffa

Living in Jaffa offers me many chances to be daily inspired and test techniques… After almost 8 years, I keep on enjoying my environment and feeling as a tourist in my own city!
Here are my latest sketches…

Midron Jaffa park

Night is coming on Jaffa's old city

Mahmadiyya Mosque and the Clock tower build in the Ottoman period

Flea Market in Jaffa

Saint Peter Church in the Old Jaffa

Beaches are noisy again with people playing matkot!

Brunch & Draw in Jaffa

Last friday we organized the Urban sketchcrawl meeting in my place in Jaffa… I am living ground floor in an old arab style building and I really enjoyed drawing in my patio and in the main court yard my urban sketchers israeli friends. We enjoyed the food and the drink everybody brought and I keep on eating it as I got a lot of excellent left over ! An experience to do again as soon as the Bougainvilleas will flourish…

Villeréal - France

Villeréal is a Bastide (city from the Middle Age time) in the South-Ouest of France, in the department of Lot-et-Garonne, near Toulouse. The city was created in 1267 and you can enjoy there the old market hall in the center of the city, surrendered by medieval buildings with "colombages" and the tall gothic church, Notre-Dame…

We spent 1 week in july in Villeréal, invited by very good friends who invited us as well to the great summer activities that the city provides for the habitants and the big amount of tourists… 

We went to the markets of course, the great occasion to test the amazing gastronomic specialties from the area, including great wines. 

We enjoyed the annual Bodéga, the city center is filled with groups of music, all kinds of styles and the sound mixture is also sometimes very interesting! People can buy food and eat all together on tables located all around the hall, they seemed very happy, as I was. This year was the 20th birthday of this event, a good excuse to enjoy twice more the wine and the music.

We also went to spend an evening at the hippodrome where they perform trotting races. We can bet on the horses and scream to encourage them during the dinner, again a great occasion to enjoy life in France !

The church Notre-Dame in Villeréal

The church Notre-Dame from the side

Inside the big hall, an ancient stair in the middle

During the Bodéga

During the trotting races

During the trotting races

Trying some new tools