What a fabulous session we had last week, when we created our own versions of the painting 'L'Estaque' or 'the Turning Road' by André Derain.
André Derain is a french painter and sculptor who, together with Henri Matisse, is the founder of Fauvism... It was a wonderful inspiration for us - have a look for yourself:
Corinne created a completely new -and very beautiful- version that is clearly inspired by the colours and the shapes of L'Estaque, yet shows her style at its best, with the quiet determination she always somehow has in her paintings.
Martine's WIP - she chose to invert the warm and the cold colours, also somewhat simplifying the very full original. It already looks stunning!
Laura used dark pencil lines and they give her version the personal touch. This is still WIP and I love the sturdy way she has set it up, no way this gets out of hand...
Anna's version is very different again, and so beautiful! She is using the red and inserting more natural colours next to it, to create a turning road with stylized trees and the rest is still a surprise...
Anna Karin uses her beautiful colours and their border-making characteristics to create natural lines. All still very much WIP but O so promising!
you can see that Charlie is a fauvist at heart, what an explosion of warm and bright and strong colours! Without paying too much attention to details and perfection. I love it and look very much forward to the finished painting.
Amazing, this painting by Glen. So strong! The simple clear lines combined with the almost primary colours make very special and did you notice that the blue shadows are illuminating - because of the contrast
Marie-Françoise has also simplified her painting, but has definitely kept the atmosphere of the original!
It is a bit softer in tone and I think that is a very personal touch.
This WIP is created by Roxane, who of course went for it and is making a very personal version. It is so interesting to see the little houses, I can wait to see it all connected!!
The painting below is also Roxane's, and was a WIP but we decided that she shouldn't change anything anymore beauty in simplicity and the snowy mountains are absolutely breathtaking!
Due to storms and floods we had to cancel our Thursday Aquarellista session, but luckily Michele, our correspondent from Bretagne joined us again and started with the emblem of Côtes d'Armor (her area in Brittany) Had she known about our fauvist theme, she would probably have given him another background 😀
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