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Packing for A Journey in Watercolour in Normandy France

9/23/2013

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The days are flying by as I get ready for my watercolour workshop in France. I have been researching Impressionists painters who painted in Normandy, the area we will be painting in. And interestingly, many non-French painters made the treck to Honfleur and the Normandy coastline to paint, drawn by the amazing light along it.
English watercolourist Turner, went to Normandy on a regular basis to paint the estuary light in Honfleur and the countryside around it. And there was a group of American painters who also frequented the area to paint. In fact, in Giverny, where Monet's famous house and gardens are situated, there is the American Foundation Museum which features art done by the visiting Americans over the years.
On this trip, we will spend the first week at a chateau near the western edge of Normandy in a small village called Hambye. We will have the entire chateau to ourselves ( amazing) and spend the days painting in and around the area. We will take a day trip to sketch at Mont St Michel ( pictured below) , the thousand year old fortress and abbey on the mont just off the coast. It is only accessible by foot and the tides cut access off several times a day. It's like stepping back in time to an era of monks, cobblestoned streets and Harry Potter! Ive been there once before, stayed overnight within its walls, and in the early morning while lying in bed I heard the same sounds of produce and supplies being brought in on old wooden carts over the cobblestones. The sounds must be the same as hundreds of years ago. No vehicles are allowed onto the mont. It also has the distinction of never having been taken in any war over 1000 years. When you see the slits in the ramparts where they poured boiling hot oil down on any attackers you understand why!
Another day we will travel to Dinan, a medieval town just over the border into Brittany France. Its old buildings and wonderful Norman architecture will make for some good painting.
In my next blog post, I will describe our second week in France. I am getting very excited about going!
Happy painting my friends.
Lin
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New facebook page for CSPWC / SCPA and Canadian WC Paint-Out Day

9/10/2013

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As some of you already know, I am active with the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour, a fantastic group of very talented painters. I volunteered to set up their facebook page and have it now up and running. Check it out! It is named CSPWC / SCPA  and I think you can search it on the fb search line and become a friend. We will post lots of interesting information there about the group and any events and exhibits etc it will be having.
Already, one new event is the start of Canadian Watercolour Paint-Out, Paint-In Day. This will happen on Saturday Oct 26, 2013 this fall and all across Canada, painters will be getting together to go out doors and paint, or indoors and paint for those in cold climates or rain. I will be hosting a paint-out here  for anyone who wants to join me. We will meet at Santa Fe Gallery, 828 3rd ave east in Owen Sound, and then head out to sketch and paint. Bring a lunch with you and we can make a day of it. This is a free event. Might be a good day to catch some of the fall colours. Of course this is to celebrate watercolours but we wont turn you away if you bring any other medium :)
I am also encouraging other watercolourists in my CSPWC Central Ontario Region to get a group together and go painting too that day!
For me...first comes France though... oo la la!   :) 


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    Lin Souliere

    Artist - watercolours, oils, ink, clay. Also watercolour workshop instructor.

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