Nivernais Canal in Auxerre
watercolour sketch
©2024
Charlene Brown
In early September I was preparing watercolour paper for some painting I hoped to do during an Art Gallery of Greater Victoria art tour to Spain, when I received some lovely photos from my daughter who was making her “hilariously slow” way along the Nivernais Canal south-east of Paris. Her shot of Auxerre seemed especially paintable, and although it wasn’t the same shape (see below) as the paper I had ready for the Spanish trip, I scrunched it into a square and painted it anyway.
Little did I know, it
would end up standing in for the whole series of paintings of the Spanish trip ─ on which I only got as
far as Seattle. More about that next
week…
