Running to the train at 6am com d’ab Eating 2 RELAY madeleines as usual pre-train
(to avoid sciatica…i.e. getting up & down to fill my watercup).
View from my window. Formerly a couvent/convent from the 17th century. They have are 2 BnB & 2 gites, room for 12 guests.
My not so petit déjeuner 🥐
I must run 🏃♂️ to see
le Sentier de l’Ocre this morning & get my shoes orange with the pigment dust.
I will paint later 👍🍊🥐 More to come on
Roussillon soon 🍊💋
Thank you so much for the beautiful pictures of Roussillon. My friend and I were there a few years ago and fell in love with it.
ReplyDeleteI know. I fell in love ❤️ 4 times on brief visits. This is for only one night but it is extraordinary to wake up and walk around in the morning light.
DeleteOnly for one night? The water colors that you did on the train are beautiful!!! The view from your window....Enjoy
ReplyDeleteCarol, your paintings are luminous! You've shown photos of Roussillion before, and they are captivating. Would you be willing to share your "Roussillion palette" of paints, brand(s) and paint names? As you know, i'm just a beginner in watercolour, so this would be wonderful to know. Your paints alone are gorgeous, and what you do with them is magical. Merci ever so much! -karen.
ReplyDeleteOf course Karen !
DeleteWinsor Newton:
Burnt Sienna (always!) for basic line drawing
Naples yellow - always a base color for washes
Yellow ochre
Raw sienna
Burnt Umber
Cobalt blue
French ultramarine blue
Kremer Pigments:
Earth colors..I have to get the #s
I will be showing more watercolors
Thank you, Carol! Thanks, too, for checking on the Kremer pigment numbers. After posting my note, i read all your posts tagged Roussillion - and learned that you were for 5 years at Kremer! What a varied and interesting life you've led, and what wonderful sets of knowledge you've had the opportunity to acquire. They integrate with one another perfectly, non? Best wishes, -karen.
DeleteSo i have now examined in minute detail the Kremer Pigments site - how much fun it would be to make paint! Have you seen their 30 Years of NY Soil paint box? There's also a kit for making primary colours. I could spend every sou i have on watercolour. Looking forward to your additional paintings re Roussillon - no such thing as too much. -k.
DeleteI worked at KP for 5 years part-time in their NY store. Being surrounded by all that color was inspiring. I started their watercolor program.
Deletehttp://parisbreakfasts.blogspot.com/2006/09/pigment-101.html
Kremer has an Earth color chart with 50-60 shades!
DeleteIts back in Paris of course…
FYI - DANIEL SMITH always got their pigments from Kremer.
They started making watercolor paints after we did
Ex. monte amiata natural sienna Is from Tuscany.
Earth colors can come from everywhere including Roussillon
Mon dieu. I just love love love colour. Love it! Thank you for all the extra information, Carol. Hope you're enjoying a bon week-end.
DeleteMarvellous! What a way to fill your well ofcreativity!
ReplyDeleteSuch an inspiring place Jerie! Everywhere you look you see a painting 🖼️
DeleteBeautiful, Carol! have a wonderful trip
ReplyDeleteYou choose the best places to show us the beauty that exists! Thank you for this mini adventure and of course the new knowledge of some pigments! But yes, someone must remedy the missed opportunity of clothing and scarfs at least in these amazing colors! You just might have to do it! 😎
ReplyDeleteThose apricots & rust colors are so complimentary to skin tones. Its odd you can’t find a hing there. No I❤️ROUSSILLON T-shirts at all!?
DeleteAnd now I am in love too! Thank you for your response to Karen with names of paints in your Roussillion palette--just beautiful!
ReplyDeleteI will watercolor demo more the next few days 👍
Deleteheading to the vaucluse tomorrow. plan to see the ochers in roussilon as well as in moimorron . went to rustrel a few years ago.. always spectacular
ReplyDeleteWonderful!
DeleteDo not miss a walk up to rue d’eglise & beyond.
The colors & geometry is just as spectacular
Interesting…I never heard of Rustrel before. Encroyable
DeleteI have been going to Roussillon for 30 years--have enlarged photos in my kitchen which bring me happiness and remembrances. Loved your experience and would so love to return and spend a day sketching there. Thanks for the memories and the inspiration!
ReplyDeleteWonderful Robyn! I love the idea of being surrounded by your big photos👏
DeleteRoussillon is an inspiring place with few changes from my first visit in 2006
It’s not the easiest place to get to if you don’t drive.
Very few buses go there.
Your palettes alone are works of art so nice of you to share your colors.I remember your posts re Kremer.Have fun I love it there.
ReplyDeleteThank you Monique.
DeleteI know why Provence is your favorite place 🥰
Roussillon! What a perfect place for you to visit and paint. I’m no artist, but appreciated the beauty of the colors in the hillside as the sun washed over them. Hope you enjoyed it!
ReplyDeleteI can’t thank you enough for your wonderful emails. They are just a joy. Plus I did subscribe to your monthly letter. It was so cool to receive it in the mail with the French stamps, which I’ve saved for collages. My husband and I leave for Paris mid-October for two weeks in Paris to celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary. I’ve saved many of your posts so that we can plan our itinerary around them. The Sennelier watercolor store is close to our hotel so that will be one of our first stops. I’m bringing my watercolor “stuff” with me. That’s what I do on the plane. Again, thank you.
ReplyDeleteWonderful Berry. Painting is very doable when yr traveling if you have a small set. More fun than sleeping or watching movies imho
DeleteThank you for supporting Parisbreakfast ❤️
We loved Roussillon when we went in 2019 and you captured the light and the colors so beautifully. Thank you for bringing it back to us, here in 2023!
ReplyDeleteI think I first visited in 2006
DeleteIt hasn’t changed much 🙏
http://parisbreakfasts.blogspot.com/2006/09/sienna-not-siena.html
Gorgeous! Love, love, love the colors of the buildings in Roussillion. The former convent you are staying in is wonderful with that lovely view of color from your window. Your painting on the train was beautiful. The photo of the hillside was just breathtaking. Enjoy every moment.
ReplyDeleteAbove comment from Suzanne P.
Delete🥰 Thank you Suzanne ❤️ It is a wonderment !
DeleteBeautiful, beautiful, beautiful! Enjoy every moment of your way too short trip.
ReplyDeleteThanks Suki ❤️
DeleteI did 👍
Now I’m in Villeneuve les Avignon!
Beautiful, Carol! The colors! Your photos are gorgeous. Looking forward to more of your watercolors.
ReplyDeleteYour petit dej looked just right. Happy travels!
I Love those colors!!!! AWA Catering
ReplyDeleteI love the old towns and the colors of the buildings. What fun to go and paint in various areas. Love the colors in your pictures. Lynne
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely place to visit, the colours are magnificent! As are your water colours. I only run to catch a bus or train, no other time!
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