Baby girl

pencil on strong bristol 6"x10"

It's my first art work since our return from our trip to the Canadian Rockies, 3 days ago.This time the jetlag was strong, after 3 weeks changing every or 2 days  from place to place, from Calgary to Vancouver and return, ending by a flight Calgary/Ottawa , staying 3 days there, before coming back to France.
I want to sleep!
Our journey was wonderful, everything turned very well, but I am glad to find our home and our old routine!
As I did not paint for a long time, I prefered begin by a drawing, to take my brushes scared me!
It was an exercise for Idrawandpaint, and, even my baby looks like rather a boy, I am quite glad with the result.

Ne me quitte pas

pencil on strong bristol 9"x12"

It is finished now, and done for this week DPW challenge, we had to illustrate a song.

Do you know Jacques Brel, and his song "Ne me quitte pas"? Nina Simone sang it in French too, Frank Sinatra and a lot of others (If you go away).

Here is a link to listen to the song, by Jacques Brel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2wmKcBm4Ik

PIQUE-NIQUE (picnic)



black pencil on strong bristol, 9"x12"



Every year,in August, we are lucky to share a picnic, with twenty-ish islanders of the Lake of the Woods, invited by Jan & Dave.

Dave cooks on the huge outdoor stone oven he built by himself, 2 years ago, Jan takes the head of the operations.Everyone brings something for the meal, and we are sure to spend a enjoyable afternoon;49% Canadians,50% Americans, 1 French, who, after a while, feels her mind confused in the middle of the whole conversations!.

For the moment I am still at home, in France, and I'll join my husband in the middle of next week.

So, I drew after a picture of Dave cooking last year.

Homeless(wip)

pencil on strong bristol 9"x12"

This drawing is not finished, I have to work on the young girl.The subject was proposed by Idrawandpaint .
Those days, I don't paint a lot, I were busy with the selling of my flat near Paris, at least!The final signature is next week, and just after I'll join my husband in Winnipeg, for the remaining summer.

HUGUETTE

 

pen on paper 8X8in

H. is a charming Briton woman who has been living in Winnipeg for about 30 years;she owns a nice cottage  high perched on a small rocky island, not far away from ours, on the lake.I have to say that for 20 years there was no cottage at all,(she slept in a tent) until the day she met a bear face to face, and decided to have a solid roof!

I took this picture when she came for dinner , and drew it by on a stormy day.
When it was our turn to go to hers, the lake was completely raging, I thought we were on the Titanic,maybe it was my last day, by miracle we could arrive and land, and by the way offer her the drawing, .