Un secret bien gardé ! A well kept secret !
Un super moment d'émotion, il y a quelques semaines de cela !!
La suite à lire sur les pages du carnet !
Lots
of happiness during the Easter weekend when our three children decided
to offer my husband and I a weekend in Beaujolais as a birthday present.
They had asked us not to look at details concerning the place as they
wanted it to be a surprise. We finally got there to find an old castle,
and on the doorstep, ... they were all there: our elder son, his wife
and two children, our daughter with her husband and little daughter and
our younger son with his wife and little boy !! Yes, I must admit ; I
did cry for joy.. It was the first time we met all together since the
little ones were born : we were so happy !!! Family is such a blessing
!
Thank you so much !!
Puis un petit séjour en Suisse pour s'occuper de nos petiits-enfants.
Then ten days in Switzerland to look after the grandkids.
Déjeuner en vue :
Lunch time :
Balade à Gruyères:
Visit in Gruyères:
Balade sur les bords du Lac Léman:
Stroll along Lake Geneva :
Croquis à Chéserex:
Sketch in Chéserex:
A partir de Mai, séjour en Bretagne et balades le long de ses cours d'eau; ici la rivière Ellé et ses énormes blocs de pierre: "Les Rochers du Diable":
Staying in South Brittany since May, I sketched some places along rivers. Here the river Ellé and its huge "Devil's Rocks"
A l'embouchure de la Laïta, "frontière" entre Morbihan et Finistère
Along the river Laïta, between Morbihan and Finistère counties:
Lac de Guerlédan (22) - Lake Guerlédan
Croquis "dans" le Lac de Guerlédan ...vide .... Etonnant !!Sketching "in " Lake Guerlédan" ... empty .. ! Quite unusual !!
Le lac de Guerlédan est un lac artificiel situé à cheval sur la commune de Saint-Aignan dans le Morbihan et la commune de Mûr-de-Bretagne dans les Côtes-d'Armor. Sa formation estdue à la construction du barrage de Guerlédan en 1930 sur le cours d'eau du Blavet
D'une superficie de 400 ha, long de 12 km et profond de 40 m au pied du barrage, le lac de Guerlédan est le plus grand lac artificiel de Bretagne.
Ce lac a été créé pour alimenter le barrage de Guerlédan. Le chantier dura sept ans de 1923 à 1930 et dut faire face à de nombreuses difficultés d'ordre géologique, technique et financier.
17 écluses du canal furent noyées sous les eaux du lac.
De mai à octobre 2015, les eaux du lac se retirent une nouvelle fois, laissant place à un paysage lunaire unique et exceptionnel.
L'eau reprendra sa place en Novembre prochain.
Lake Guerledan is the largest lake in Brittany – it’s an artificial lake and was first flooded around 1930 for electricity production and fresh water supply. In the past it was drained every 10 years or so, but modern maintenance procedures have rendered this unnecessary for the last 30 years – that is until 2015.
The result is that by the summer the whole 10 km long lake will reveal its hidden depths (literally). At the bottom runs the Nantes-Brest canal with 17 locks and associated lock-houses seen for the first time for a generation.
The lake will start refilling in November by the natural flow of the Blavet. It will take between six weeks and two months to refill depending on rainfall.
D'une superficie de 400 ha, long de 12 km et profond de 40 m au pied du barrage, le lac de Guerlédan est le plus grand lac artificiel de Bretagne.
Ce lac a été créé pour alimenter le barrage de Guerlédan. Le chantier dura sept ans de 1923 à 1930 et dut faire face à de nombreuses difficultés d'ordre géologique, technique et financier.
17 écluses du canal furent noyées sous les eaux du lac.
De mai à octobre 2015, les eaux du lac se retirent une nouvelle fois, laissant place à un paysage lunaire unique et exceptionnel.
L'eau reprendra sa place en Novembre prochain.
Lake Guerledan is the largest lake in Brittany – it’s an artificial lake and was first flooded around 1930 for electricity production and fresh water supply. In the past it was drained every 10 years or so, but modern maintenance procedures have rendered this unnecessary for the last 30 years – that is until 2015.
The result is that by the summer the whole 10 km long lake will reveal its hidden depths (literally). At the bottom runs the Nantes-Brest canal with 17 locks and associated lock-houses seen for the first time for a generation.
The lake will start refilling in November by the natural flow of the Blavet. It will take between six weeks and two months to refill depending on rainfall.
In Saint Maurice Abbey : Storage ( Tithe) Barn :
Enfin, à Saint Goustan, le Port d'Auray -(56)
Finally, in Saint Goustan, Aurayharbour (South Brittany):
Au soleil d' Auray, avec un "P" come Port, j'aurais pu écrire aussi: "P" comme Problème de Perspective sur les arches du Pont, vues de biais !!
Feutre et aquarelle sur carnet Moleskine.
Not easy to draw the arches of the bridge, seen sideways ...
Fineliner and watercolour in my Moleskine sketchbook.
That's wonderful!
RépondreSupprimerWhat a wonderful surprise… lovely memories for the whole family.
RépondreSupprimerGreat sketches! Glad to see you haven't stopped sketching! A six month void is OK compared to never sketching again.
RépondreSupprimerGreat sketches! I love the color and the economical lines.
RépondreSupprimerWonderful photo of you and your family and lovely watercolor paintings. Welcome back.
RépondreSupprimerGorgeous sketches!
RépondreSupprimerWonderful to see your work again, Martine. Regarding the perspective of the arches viewed from the side, the trick is to overrule your Left Brain which "knows" what is there, and just trust that if you draw what you actually see with your Right Brain, it will work. It is counter intuitive, but it has worked for me.
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