Tree near Rouviere

Marseille

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Today I learned how it feels to make an image not on the white background. Feels good! So to do this image first the biggest part of it was covered by light yellow-orange color still visible on the tree branches, and resting part of the image, a smaller one, was covered by a blue color. Then the story begins. It is really just makes feel good to put green-blue-violote-brown colors on the yellow-orange background. The color lies soft, profound and retain very good at the place where it was put. It also pleasant to put transparent violete-blue on light blue.

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Alpes 2009

Here is many pictures I did during my stay in Valley of Charmonie in the very exiting place called les Houches. At that time I were trying to make pictures looks like originals. I also did not realy care, at least at the begginig, about how many times the color is applied and were felling free to put dark green over bright one, and if the effect was not strong to add some more green, and then if the situation is too bad then add some very very dark green. It seems at the end of my stay I somehow get the idea of non mixing of colors on the paper. Pictures are inverted in chronological order, more or less, earlier are on the top.

View from my window

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View from my window - just another day

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And another day

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Cloud

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 Mountain chains

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 Aiguille du Midi

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 Green Mountain - last picture

Rock in Suggiton

Marseille, about two-three years ago

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I was already trying the technique where color is put only on the white paper several years ago. 'Rock in Suggiton' is and representative example from that times. In opposite to what I do now ( 'Sunday', 'Actress tomb') at those days I did care about the borders between color patches. I did not leave white spaces in between them. Quite a work, one need to think twice (well, actually more then twice) before painting a picture, actually as far as I remember the one above is a successful try of several ones. So I painted many times the same picture in order to calculate explicitly where which color will be. So it is not really a free single attempt paining style, but rather programed calculation established over several repetitions. Still nice, however.

Hills behind R.

Marseille.

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Here is a mix of dry and wet. Actually i was fed up with painting all these houses in the bottom of the hills, so then I just put a lot of some grey-brown water on the bottom and add several drops of intense green while it was still wet. 

Sunday. 

Marseille.

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The task of the day was to paint a picture in a way that the color is put ONLY on the white paper, thus once the color is put, no way back is possible.Thus is quite a trick because I have to be precise from the first try. And the other trouble is small white spases in between patches of color that is not obvious to paint, simply technically, because they are very small. Ok, anyway this methods makes the picture light and transparent. It gives freshness.

Electric Tower on the rock.

Marseille

Red Sun. View from my balcony.

Marseille

Port de Pointe Rouge. 

Marseille

 Actress Tomb
Marseille

Actress Tomb and rock
Marseille

Callanques. Stone
Marseille

 

 

Ginest. Soir.
Marseille

Green behind la res. Rouviere

Green behind la Rouviere.

Marseille

First entry

 

behind la Rouviere. Sunset

Marseille