BBQ

BBQ ? BBQ for dinner here, as an overdue thank you for their hospitality and gourmet foods, friends of mine, a couple, one French the other Russian, from La Roche-Bernard proposed a BBQ which seemed like a good idea. Despite my protestations they insisted on arriving with enough food for six. Upon arrival they promptly … Read more

Wash car/rain

wash car/rain ⛈ I gave my aged car a very overdue wash, headlight restore, wax n polish🙂. Now we have heavy rain with full sound & lightening effects ⛈. Washing my car, this works almost every time, wash car/rain ⛈. It works better than any rain dance I’ve tried🙃😄⚓

BalaBala

BalaBala, bistro and Bar in Redon, produced another winner last Friday. Amelik treated us to an hour of rare music, singing in French, Breton, Turkish and Kabyle Kabyle? By the way, the Kabayle tribe/people are a Berber ethnic group indigenous to ‘Kabylia’ in the north of Algeria. The Kabyle way pre date the arrival of … Read more

Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie , the murderous attack on this significant author is an outrage. As is the claim that the motive is unknown. This is an attack on all people who value #freedom , #Liberty and wish for brighter, peaceful days. This accompanying painting is new on my website page, one of the ‘Sunrise Series’, https://artfrickers.com/s-w-france/sunrise-project/ … Read more

Wet on Wet

Wet on wet painting, how do you do that?

Vilaine tableaux
Vilaine Sunrise unfinished, 17.03.22

81 x 51 cm (32″ x 20″), oils, available for sale.

“La rivière Vilaine, le lever du soleil, le premier jour du printemps.”

Following on my posts of 14 March & 16th, here is the next ‘stage’ in the development of this painting.
Wet on wet, a technique full of little surprises, best suited to oil painting is fun as one is never in complete control.

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