Thursday, May 14, 2015

Betsy Arrives.Betsy has Wine. Betsy Implodes. - JP Begins a Painting - JP's Post

Betsy Arrives to breath taking villa courtyard in Alayrac France.
Alayrac? Just try to find it on a map. Try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vindrac-Alayrac



Betsy contemplates a light French repast and wine then implodes!




And today a JP painting has begun!  Raw umber under painting sketch. Please note, Maestro Borowicz. (I try not to think too much about it. If I did I would be too amazed to do anything. )


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View from the kitchen Window - Betsy's Post

2015 0514   Nous sommes arrived and it is just as beautiful as before. View from the kitchen  
window

This could be JP’s starter painting.
Nothing of note on the way over besides the hideously uncomfortable seats for sleeping, being awoken at 1:30 for breakfast and a 2 hour wait on the tarmac in Paris for a replacement part of some kind.  Duly noted, and POOUFF, gone. The sunrise was beautiful and we saw the Eiffel tower.
 JP brought a painter’s umbrella on a long hollow shaft with a sharp point for being rammed into the ground. He had put one of those tiny bourbon bottles (empty) over the point to protect the carrier.  It caused great interest on both sides of the Atlantic but made it through eventually.
We bought sausage, cheeses, wine and bread on the way. The concierge had brought us ham, bread and eggs so we are set.  We went to bed at 4PM and were wide awake 11-3. 

Random notes: My French is still execrable and mostly Spanish.  Odd since I didn’t do a lick of work on it. There is WIFI here now though intermittent.  There is a whole new shelf of trash books to read and contribute to. JP has stopped figuring out the electronics around here and is sorting his paints on this 30 foot table.  It’s a beautiful hazy/sunny day with a brisk wind, new green fields, birds singing, the three horses below the window munching and snuffling and a great quiet.  Sorry, but I’ve got to get back to doing damn nothing.

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

News from Toulouse, a Sequel

Waiting by the studio door for our good friend and neighbor Kate Fentress to shuttle us up the the Logan Shuttle on our way back to the tiny stone village, Alayrac in Vindrac-Alayrac, France, just north of Toulouse. Visions of past paintings by JP send us on. Tomorrow night we will drink the wine from Chateau Bourget across the way and sleep to the song of the rossignol (French for nightingale ) We hope our friends will keep in touch with this blog. Boarding soon. Please sign up below for notices of our posts. return Au Revoir!