First of all, we’d like to thank you all for your support over the past year and to wish you a peaceful and happy Christmas. I’ve just finished wrapping the presents, the baking is done and it’s Christmas eve as I write this. I’m looking forward to a family BBQ followed by a relaxing holiday. […]
Dec 24, 2011 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: autumn, Autumn Painterly Pack, New Zealand, painterly, sheep | Comments Off on Sheep on the Hill
Another misty ‘Canal du Midi’ shot, just west of Beziers,our famous local French Atlantic coast to the French Mediterranean sea connection. One of the main reasons for its being built was to avoid having to sail around Spain.Because just over two hundred years ago those pesky Spanish Pirates were quite a problem!This in turn brought […]
Nov 10, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: apple blush, Autopanopro, autumn, autumnal, barge drivers, bounty, Canal du Midi, Caramel soft, choices, concept, end, Flypaper Textures, France, French, Getty, grunge, horses shade, joined up, Languedoc, Mediterranean, mellow fruitfulness, mist, moody, Napoleon's marching trees, painterly, path, pathway, Paul Grand, poplar trees, Raw Linen, roads, Routs, sailers, stagnant, travel, trees, vacation, wealth, wine | Comments Off on Three routes into mist
Nov 06, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: apple blush, autumn, Beziers, boat, boats, calm, Caramel soft, Flypaper Textures, France, French, Getty, golden hour, Languedoc, Mediterranean, no people, painterly, Paul Grand, Raw Linen, river bank, riverscape, sunset, Tex Box 1, tress, vacation | Comments Off on A view from a Roman Bridge
This is in the south of France in my local languedoc area.There were many old windmills, but these are fast disappearing.This one overlooks my old village as seen from a farmers side road.I’d never seen it before the other evening! For this bucolic sunset scene I used three flypaper textures,two of them doubled.Bruised Saffron Soft […]
Oct 24, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: apple blush, autumn, big sky, Bruised Saffron, clouds, decay, depression, desolate, distance, dramatic, farmland, Flypaper Textures, France, French, Getty, golden hour, grunge, landscape, Languedoc, left, lone, lonely, lost, Mediterranean, moody, Necropolis, Necropolis Soft, old, old times, outmoded, Paul Grand, postcard, published, red, rural, rust, surreal, Tex Box 1, undergrowth, vacation, vista, wind, windmill | Comments Off on Gilded
