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Recent Painting Sessions 2006
(Plinth Chalking & Interpretive)

Without wishing to make this a specific art gallery, we'd like to express thanks to all those who have visited
"Les Lavandes" so far this year (remember - we are open ALL year - Christmas and New Year, too) -
and who have worked hard to create many fine pieces of work, usually in all too brief a time scale.
Here, we'd like to display some examples of their works alongside Colin's!
People . . . a week is just too short to do justice to 'les beaux arts' . . . I did tell you . . .
but we've had fun doing what we've done, have we not ?!?

So, the pictures* we feature here, are by YOU** and ME:-
and are works made so far, this year (2006). Enjoy!

They are styles, types, interpretations and observations resulting
from sitting together, to produce a variety of work-types.
They've been created for a variety of art-tuition disciplined reasons
(from Colin's point of view - whether anyone listened to him or not !).

And yes, 99% of the time, surprise as it may be, Colin does sit - and work
- alongside you, doesn't he ?!?

In fact, a large portion of Colin's own artwork is produced and derived from
the shared energy YOU bring, along with your genuine desire to create.
So thanks for that! It's also driven, of course, by the locations visited, when weather permits -
and what is set before us . . . scenes and objects featuring;

- texture,
- pattern,
- light,
- shade,
- colour.

Whether created at speed, or with certain information discarded,
produced slowly, with all due consideration, or copied, interpreted,
worked in single colour, or fully coloured up
- you name it - we try to do it.

So far this year, we've;
- watercoloured,
- acrylic(k)ed (??!!),
- brushed,
- palette knifed,
- coloured 'indian' inked, and
- colour chalked
(on our external covered plinth).

"Plinth Chalking and
Interpretive Work. . ."

Left: Preparation drawing for plinth chalking.
Right: the finished article -
a real moment in time . .
just wait for that rain!

Plinth chalking (see L&R) is huge fun . . .
Colin and Matt R (from the outskirts of Geneva),
a client-guest this Summer, researched this
wonderfully inspiring piece of art by the
famous Roger Dean from an old
Yes LP album, and together transferred
it to the plinth outside the house.

There, it was chalked onto the
somewhat textured concrete surface -
and well . . . we thought it worked well enough!
Now; to devise our own 'surreal'
situation compositions!

Small hiccup, 'though, came during the actual process of chalking and colouring up - they didn't include a black in the chalk packets!!
Fortunately, the BBQ charcoal wasn't a million miles away, so we used that!

A big " Up" to Julian Beever, the street artist, who inspired me to do this with the art student concerned - and thanks too, of course, to the fabulously talented Roger Dean and the eternally wonderful music of "Yes"!