Sunday, November 17, 2019

Deep in the Dordogne

Back Road to Urval 12x16 oil

On our recent stay in the south of France, we often found ourselves on small roads like this, buried deep in a Dordogne forest with little light, and the allure of dappled roadways was too much for me to resist.  Once, coming back late at night from dinner at a little restaurant in Cadouin, a wild boar ran across this very road just in front of us, and we were all treated to our sanglier experience.

When I find myself struggling to spend time in the studio painting, I work on small canvases, 11 x 14 or smaller, and that seems to help; there is less at stake, failures are easier to accept, completion is faster.  But now that winter is coming, what else am I supposed to do with all these short days and long nights?







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