Scenes from Provence

A few paintings I did plein air while on holiday - the top 5 are water soluble oil on canvas board & the others are small postcard size water colours. I had ambitious plans to do a lot more than that - but the sound of the crickets & beautiful sunshine, delicious food & wines lulled us into a relaxed holiday mode! Painting seemed to be too much like work in that lazy summer atmosphere!

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Comment by Silvana M Albano on September 1, 2014 at 14:47: Great Jessica!

Comment by Jessica Futerman on August 31, 2014 at 4:53: I love Julian Merrow-Smith's paintings too, Craig. French artists are surrounded by inspiring scenes & the light in southern France is wonderful; no wonder so many painters are drawn to the area. I hope you get there some day!

Comment by Craig Seaborn on August 30, 2014 at 15:13: Wow I'd love to go there , it is the home of one of my favorite artists of this day Julian Merrow-Smith

Comment by Jessica Futerman on August 29, 2014 at 22:12: Hello everyone - thank you all for your lovely comments! It's fun to be back on the site, with all the positive interaction, help, advice & encouragement! Very much appreciated, especially since I do not belong to a painting group :) I have lots of promising photo references for inspiration now too. Have spent our holidays in France for the past 10 years! It's just as beautiful every time.

Comment by Maria Woolrich on August 29, 2014 at 21:07: What a lovely little series of paintings from your holiday Jessica. Well done.

Comment by Dorian Aronson on August 29, 2014 at 20:21: Good for you! I like all of them Jessica. Smiles ;-)

Comment by Ann Turner on August 29, 2014 at 10:58: You will always have great memories connected to these little jewels, looking good !

Comment by Jon Main on August 29, 2014 at 7:49: The journal aspect is very interesting, there are some great painters' travel journals (from edward lear to titouan lamazou), for me especially as I know it so well - I think you did well to do so many!