Livres De Poche

Barjac brocante, hot day

Dear Chris, I’ve just got back from Le Gard & Ardèche. Here are some sketches from my trip. I bought some old Livres de Poche paperbacks and painted on the pages. I like the quality of the paper. Hoping all is well, good wishes, Chris.

Barjac brocante

Dear Chris, here are some more pages from my paperback sketchbooks. I used some French ‘Livre de Poche’ paperbacks: Roger Peyrefitte’s ‘Les Amours Singulières’ and Gilbert Cesbron’s ‘Avoir Été’. I like the quality of the paper, it takes gouache paint very well. I travelled around France this summer for about 4 weeks painting & drawing things I saw: hilltop villages, vineyards, markets, brocantes, Marseille, La Grande Motte and its concrete holiday blocks and beach, rivers and landscapes.

Barjac market, salads for sale

Barjac olives

Barjac tomatoes

Guitar singer

Provençal hilltop village & St Martin d’Ardèche

La Roque-sur-Cèze & a dovecote

River Cèze bathers

Mediterranean food

Med swimmer

Russian sailors on the Med

La Grande Motte

La Grande Motte seen from the sea

Chandigarh Corbusier

Corbusier house in Ahmedabad

Indian man by the Ganges

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Cat and Mouse 1

I started painting in paperback books with a project to illustrate Günter Grass’s ‘Cat and Mouse’ but painting in the book, over the text. I’ll enclose some here. very good wishes, Chris.