TRAVEL MEMORY - SOUVENIRS DE VOYAGE

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TRAVEL MEMORIES

My Mickey Mouse backpack accompanies me whenever I travel.  It is loaded with paint, brushes, and canvases so that I can paint wherever I go.  We call these “Travel Memory Paintings”. 

I paint when I travel.  It doesn’t matter if I’m on a beach, on a cruise ship, in a hotel room or wherever, my backpack is ever present.  I paint what I see during the travels as well as things that just happen to come into my head.  I don’t really plan things out, I just let myself go. 

 

Some of my most cherished memories are painting with my grandkids on beaches.  I have also spent many pleasant hours painting while my wife Francine reads aloud to me.  Usually, she reads biographies about exceptional women who have made a difference in the world.  The last one she read was on Eleanor Roosevelt.

 

I used to finish these travel paintings on my voyages but as my technique evolved, I usually finish them off in my studio and then frame them.  

 



 Travel paintings are some of the most popular paintings I make.



PHOTOS: CARRIBEAN BEACH, CARRIBEAN CLIFFS, THE ALGARVE - PORTUGAL


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Version française


SOUVENIRS DE VOYAGE

Mon sac à dos Mickey Mouse m'accompagne à chaque voyage. Il est chargé de peinture, de pinceaux et de toiles pour que je puisse peindre partout où je vais. Nous appelons ces toiles mes « peintures de souvenirs de voyage ».

Je peins quand je voyage. Peu importe que je sois sur une plage, sur un bateau de croisière, dans une chambre d'hôtel ou ailleurs, mon sac à dos est toujours avec moi. Je peins ce que je vois pendant les voyages ainsi que les choses qui me viennent à l'esprit. Je ne planifie pas vraiment les choses, je me laisse aller.

 

Certains de mes souvenirs les plus précieux sont ceux de peindre avec mes petits-enfants sur la plage. J'ai également passé de nombreuses heures agréables à peindre pendant que ma femme Francine me faisait la lecture à haute voix. Habituellement, elle lit des biographies de femmes exceptionnelles qui ont fait une différence dans le monde. Le dernier qu’elle a lu relatait la vie d’Eleanor Roosevelt.

 

J'avais l'habitude de terminer ces peintures de voyage lors de mes voyages, mais à mesure que ma technique évolue, je les finis généralement dans mon atelier, puis je les encadre.

Les peintures de voyage font partie des peintures les plus populaires que je réalise.


 


PHOTOS : PLAGE DES CARAÏBES, FALAISES DES CARAÏBES, ALGARVE - PORTUGAL


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