Door in Palermo

Sicile, Italy

---------------------------------------------

Nothing about painting technique this time, but some observations about Palermo: 

To enter inside (restaurant, tourist office, hotel...) in Palermo you have knock the door and wait it to be open. By definition the door is closed with no sight of live inside.

Garden in Palermo

Sicile, Italy

------------------------------------------------
It could be pretty warm and nice in Palermo even in January. The Sun is almost hot (when it is out).

St-Jean-de-Malte

Aix-en-Provence

St-Cannat 

16km nord-west from Aix-en-Provence

PACA
 
-----------------------------------------------

St-Cannat, St-Jean-de-Malte pictures and the picture Bandol from the previous post are done with different technique than usual. It is watercolor pencils. They are really colorful and bright. And they dilute easily in water. That gives aquarelle effect used in Bandol picture, for example. St-Cannat, St-Jean-de-Malte are dry pictures, no water. 

The new for me feature of working with pencils is very limited palette. The number of pencils is 12. Colors does not mix nicely as in aquarelle. For example the green obtained from yellow and blue is looks dirty and not really green. 

The interesting think about pencils is that learn to ignore real colors to the extend that I did not dare to do using watercolors. Been limited by palette, but still desiring to express the sound of the subject I add unexpected colors to where they are not present. Like the tree in St-Jean-de-Malte picture is red, while in reality it was grey. But because I did not have appropriate grey, I make it red. The church also is like rainbow and so on...

Bandol

PACA

Near Embrun

Alpes du Sud

Puy-St-Vincent 1400

Alpes du Sud

Near Aix

PACA

Matin

Aix-en-Provence

Aix-en-Provence, vu de ma fenêtre

PACA

Octobre

Aix-en-Provence

Gite en Ansouis dans Luberon

 Var, PACA

Karpates

Ukraine

Opera

Lviv

Slavs'ke

Karpates, Ukraine

T. Shevchenko

Kiev

Kievo-Pechersk Lavra

Kiev, Ukraine

 Park in Lviv

Ukraine

Good buy Marseille or the last look on the see from home.

Marseille

Tree in Luminy

Marseille

Callanques

Marseille

Magnoliya

La port a la plage

Marseille

Spring bushes

between Aix-en-Provence and Marseille

Spring in Menee

Drome/Alpes (Vercors)

Spring

Marseille

Kiparis

Rougiers, Massive de St.Baume

-----------------------------

Here I decided to add my drawing done on the non artistic paper and done not really at the expected time and place, like 'Kiparis' is done on the from the copybook with a black pen.

 Baby cat

Marseille, Luminy

--------------------------------

 And the 'Baby cat' is done by unconscious movements of the pen during one of the group meetings.

Chabanon

Alpes du Sud

Les Orres

Alpes du Sud

Yellow Flowers 1

Yellow Flowers 2

Yellow Flowers 3

 

Yellow Flowers 4

Yellow Flowers 5

--------------------------------------------------

Painted  in ~2003 in Kiev.

 Rain evening

E712 road somewhere between Grenoble and Sisteron 

Mountain in fog

 E712 road somewhere between Grenoble and Sisteron

Siren'

--------------------------------------------

Painted in Kiev long time ago...

Cliffs

Corse

Rocks

Corse