Champagne et macarons, watercolor, 9" x 11"
This past weekend I was remembering some Champagne days of yore.
I got to spend a week at the then newly decorated manor house owned by Veuve Clicquot set in the vineyards of Verzy.
Roselyne de Casteja graciously invited me to stay and paint the house and vineyards.
Champagne for breakfast was available everyday if I was that kind of girl. The refrigerator was chock full of huge jeroboams and nothing else!
I don't mind a tiny frigo full of macarons, but I do like my hot chocolate 1st thing in the morning, not that I want to appear fussy.
The landscape was idylic. Perfection really.
Sitting out in the middle of the Champagne grapes, I felt like Van Gogh minus the straw hat.
Focusing on how to paint vineyards
I missed out painting the manor house/domaine and only figured out how to paint chateaux later on.
Here's a terrific book on the widow Clicquot.
Another on the famous 'Yellow' of Veuve Clicquot.
I got to spend a week at the then newly decorated manor house owned by Veuve Clicquot set in the vineyards of Verzy.
Roselyne de Casteja graciously invited me to stay and paint the house and vineyards.
Champagne for breakfast was available everyday if I was that kind of girl. The refrigerator was chock full of huge jeroboams and nothing else!
I don't mind a tiny frigo full of macarons, but I do like my hot chocolate 1st thing in the morning, not that I want to appear fussy.
The landscape was idylic. Perfection really.
Sitting out in the middle of the Champagne grapes, I felt like Van Gogh minus the straw hat.
Focusing on how to paint vineyards
I missed out painting the manor house/domaine and only figured out how to paint chateaux later on.
Here's a terrific book on the widow Clicquot.
Another on the famous 'Yellow' of Veuve Clicquot.
Like Pierre Herme.
