by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Jul 6, 2011 | General, Inspiration |Thoughts, Painting
THE SALE!! by Lorraine Lillcrapp Saturday July the 3rd. A Beautiful morning today – breakfast on the terrace & then a short drive through the glorious fields of lavender on our way to paint. Incredible colours with Naples yellow fields patchworked between...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Jul 5, 2011 | En français, General, Painting
L’arrivée – The Arrival par Jocelyne Desaulniers Ça y est le grand jour est arrivé!!! Atelier Provence débutera dans quelques minutes, et il ne me reste plus que quelques mètres avant d’arriver à la gare de Manosque, point de rencontre du groupe Atelier...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Jul 3, 2011 | Art History, Food | Cooking, General, Inspiration |Thoughts, Painting
Getting Ready for Atelier Provence After a night in Milan and train trip to Marseille where we picked up our van, we are finally in our lodge in the middle of the Valensole plateau. The beauty of the juxtaposition of the lavender and the blond wheat fields is...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Jul 2, 2011 | Food | Cooking, General, Inspiration |Thoughts, Painting
Arrival to beautiful Provence After bringing all of our Studio Italia happy participants to the Arezzo train station, and a long train ride from Florence and a night stop in Milano, we finally arrived to our lodge in Provence, located on the Plateau de Valensole....
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Jul 1, 2011 | General, Painting
The End of Studio Italia Last evening of our painting workshop during the Benfinita in Rigomagno (link). For 10 days we painted hard and we ended up with 150 paintings! Our show in Rigomagno lasted for a week and was attended by hundreds of visitors from the Siena and...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Jun 27, 2011 | General, Inspiration |Thoughts, Painting
My painting workshop crit! My “crit” was prefaced by Yves asking me to repeat something I had said earlier in the day – “I struggle to find a “higher” meaning/reason/purpose for my painting.” On the one hand, I enjoy doing fairly traditional landscapes. However, it...
