Behind the church

La Gadiere - d'Azur

House 20 - pencil only

St-Tropez

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Only pencil, and unfinished one. When the picture is finished it lost some of its stench and attractiveness. It looks too much familiar like 16th century wall paintings, because it's perfection and proneness of the method.

House 20

St-Tropez

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Mixed aquarelle and pencil. I want make the precision of pencil and spontaneous 'rasvodi' of aquarelle colors to play together.

Phare

Marseille

 Cabot 

Marseille

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Cabot2

Marseille

Belgentier

Fountain

Allauch

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well, windows should be more accurate and vertical. Otherwise it still strange combination of pencil and colors, isn't it?

Houses and windows

Signes

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I did detailed drawing at Signes, including hatching. The colors I put on the initial drawing few days latter at home. Apparently it works.

Saray 2 

Corse

Bar du Midi

Auriol

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Town from the hill

Roquevaire

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I was stuck, making paintings from my head, because I do not have enough knowledge about houses; as I paint them spontaneously and put real elements. I also had trouble inventing thinks about houses, how they look like, what are the details. Then I finally find myself that I am painting the same pictures as I did before, but with new color combinations or so. That make me think that what can help is to do drawings just to learn what houses have and how they are arranged. So here are two of them. It takes so long! It took me around 3hours to do each of them. And one per day.

Mazargue

Marseille

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Otherwise no colors for provence houses is an another solution.

Red-orange-green-violet-3

Gemenos

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Red-orange-green-violet - 2

bd de Redon - Marseille

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Red-orange-green-violet -1 

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Here I get that red-orange-green-violet looks nice for Provence houses. It solve the problem of no color of these houses, or the colors that i do not recognize as a colors (dirty ohra ).I like much more how houses looks on the red sky then on the blue one, i do not know why, but painting them as they are with natural color always led to some un-satisfaction for me. But these colors gives sufficient tension. And another bonus - here violet does not looked abused, as usual as it is contrasted by red.

Saray

Corse

And some drawings. From different places I've been during last two years.

Street
Marseille 8eme

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 Hampi
Hampi (India)
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Kanal

Kiev (Ukraine)

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Grapes

Cassis
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Roquefort la bedole

Island in twilight

Marseille

Houses
Corse

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Chapelle

Saints Ponts near Gemenos

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Before Cassis

Geneste road

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Sails

Marseille

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Sails and Rock

Marseille

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Marseille

Marseille

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Light holders

Gemenos

 House
Gemenos

Paradis place

Plan d'Aups Sainte Baume

Red flowers

Kiev '90s

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Apple flowers in a goblet

Kiev '90s

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 'Sport orientirovanie'
Kiev '90s
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My mother found some of my 15 years old paintings and liked to post them on this blog, no comments.

La porte

Cassis

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Well, finally I think the best initial color for the houses here (Marseille and around) is ochre, but I do not know yet, which is a complementary to it. Do not want to go back to violet. The shadows on this picture are done by mix of violet and green.
It is still cold here for morning outdoor paintings... good news is that up to 11am there is not much tourist in Cassis during such weather. There are also a lot of very useful wood benches in Cassis.

Street in Marseille

Marseille

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Here I found out that I like a lot yellow-blue tandem, much more, it seems, but we'll see later, than orange-violet.

Black house

Cassis

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Green Bush

Cassis 

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Black window

Cassis

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Cassis is a nice town at the see shore with old houses and pretty old streets. The only problem - crowds of tourists... 

Blossom tree

Marseille

Baobab

Marseille

Window

Marseille

 Pin tree in Callangues

Marseille

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 Callangues

Marseille

Snow day in Marseille

 

Some snow near Marseille

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Mountain 

(was with snow in reality)

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