Pirogh Hesse

Watercolor and fineliner-pen, 21x30cm, about 10' pose.

Clarinha at la Guitoune. Watercolor and fineliner-pen, about 21x30cm. Life figure sketch, about 15mn.

Watercolor and fineliner-pen, 21x30cm, about 10' pose.

In April, I did a travel a week long in Corsica, near L'Île Rousse. I painted some landscapes with watercolor in a small A4 sketch book that I've done myself, as described in my previous blog post Travel by bike. These watercolors are about 21x30cm and took about 1 hour each. I also draw quick sketches with a fineliner-pen, about 15x21cm and about 10' each of them. I first went in Algojola.

Then, I went to Porto, in the natural park:

I discovered this week the amazing book Crosshatching in Pen & Ink by August Lamm and I decided to study cross-hatching. Here is my fist drawings, a pomegranate and my left hand:

Hatching with a fineliner-pen, 21x30cm.

I did a two weeks long travel in Québec where I painted on the spot in a small A4 watercolor sketch book that I've done myself, as described in my previous blog post Travel by bike. I also did some sketches with a fineliner-pen. I stayed one week in Montréal where I admired the staircases in front of the houses.

I also went to the Jean Talon market and sketched Hazel, 18 months old, my little-stepdaughter while she was trying on my wife’s sandals.

I also visited Kamouraska.

Sketches, about 15x21cm. Watercolors, about 21x30cm.

During a travel in Marseille for three days, I made a sketch of the old port.

Fineliner-pen, about 21x15cm.

I did a small travel this week-end in Méaudre, in the Vercors massif, and tried to find some mushrooms. I funded very few of them but I did some sketches.

Fineliner-pen, about 21x15cm.

I did this week-end a travel in Martigny, Swissland, to visit an exposition about fauvism at the Gianadda fundation. The road crossed Mont Blanc massif, where I did some sketches.

Fineliner-pen, about 21x15cm.

During a bike travel in Bavaria with saddlebags and camping tent, I did some sketches with a fineliner-pen and also painted on the spot in a small A4 watercolor sketch book that I've done myself, as described in my previous blog post Travel by bike. I started from Mulhouse, progressed along the Rhein and joined the lake Constance.

Then, I reached Füssen where is the famous Neuschwanstein castel by by Ludwig II of Bavaria.

I then turned north on the Romantische Straße during about 400 kilometers. I was impressed by the old cities, some of them with buildings from medieval times: Augsburg, Nördlingen and Rothenburg.

I finally turned west, reached Heidelberg and next Strasbourg.

Sketches, about 15x21cm. Watercolors, about 21x30cm.