Candé sur Beuvron

Just returned from a great holiday in France, in the Loire are. With our children and grandchildren. We had a great time, and excellent weather (except for one dreary and rainy day). This is a sketch of the village, there had been floodinge recently, and large treetrunks were still blocking the passage under the bridge.

Simpelveld ZLSM railwaymuseum

 

Went sketching out today. A railway musuem, with working steamlocomotives. This is a drawing of one of the museumpieces: a railwaycrane.

Roermond

Impression of the market place in Roermond. We were there to prepare a national USk-NL sketching day, but took the opportunity to do some sketchig ourselves.
 

France: Any Martin Rieux: an old barn

 

Here the painting I was most proud of: an old, half collapsed barn in Leuze, a small village close to Any.

I took a pice of MDF wood 60x80cm, and sticked carboard to it, then acrylic paint.

It was really nice weather that day, warm, but not hot. The farmer even dropped by to look at what we were doing; he was quite talkative, and showed us the cows he was clearly proud of. THe barn dated back to WW2, and had been in this state since 20 years. Which is a small wonder.