tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81736453878901790072024-03-13T21:31:10.409-07:00Frank BruckmannA BLOG of the Work of Artist Frank Bruckmann as he Takes his Easel to Provence for a year with his Wife, 2 Teens and a Dog.Muffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08158827534768683459noreply@blogger.comBlogger88125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173645387890179007.post-34254072850699011472019-07-25T07:04:00.002-07:002019-09-23T19:00:26.801-07:00TONIGHT! Showing off the Provence Body of Work in Berwyn, PA<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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So we have been home long enough to become reacquainted with our lovely friend and framers at the Frame Shop and DaSilva Gallery in Westville! So many frames for so many paintings. And now they are ready to exhibit and find new homes....will they be findingYOUR home? Hope so! To start things off: for those in the area....tonight in Berwyn, PA, One Night Only Landscape Event....Frank Bruckmann, Provence in Pennsylvania . Two bodies of work sharing the same lovely space in a private home. Check out Fbruckmann.com for MORE! You MUST click on the thumbnails below to see the whole gorgeous painting!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rented Studio of Frank Bruckmann. Rognes, France<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">The studio looked so naked when Frank packed up his paintings....it was all fresh and white again...ready for the next person to come along and start fresh. I envy that person. It was a gorgeous year in Rognes. The house, the neighborhood, the village, the department -#13 bouches-de-rhone, the rest of France, and the rest of Europe....all at our fingertips. What an amazing part of the planet.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Exploring the region with the International Hiking Group of Provence was my Tuesday jam. I love this pic of Anouk and Claudia who are presenting the Calanques off Marseille....</span><br />
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Unbelievable hiking with my fabulous hiking group and above, a delightful swim off the coast of Marseille!<br />
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The Fete de la Musique, all over France, happened on our last night in Rognes. Frank, Jorgie, Anton and I danced and laughed a lot and afterwards walked home in the darkness....and then returned to a party where music was being made....<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;"> </span><span style="text-align: left;"> Sweetest surprise as we drove away for the final time...with our bags packed and house closed up....our neighbors </span><br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">Our last painting together, fitting that we are toasting with rosé from Ansouis, the village in the background.</span><br />
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Our Fiat Panda, loaded up with plants to give away and later handed off to Louise and Nigel....<br />
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"Our" pretty house for the year, ready for the owner's return....</td></tr>
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The month of May was unseasonably wet and cold and completely insane. Our big shindig was hosting a 8-night painting workshop with 6 hours daily of painting instruction for Frank's 10 students from the US, UK and Austria. He worked them so hard that they needed to be resuscitated with great food and wines from the region that we were happy to provide. Every night we had at least 18 around the table and I made some of my finest meals for all...but the sweetest reward was provided by the dessert team of Jorgie and her pal/artist Caitlin who excelled in making cheesecake, chocolate mousse and other delights. </div>
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The artists painted "en plein air" and the locations couldn't have been more lovely....Ansouis, Bonnieux, Lacoste, Lourmarin and in Rognes, at the artists' residence. They painted all day at the Chateau St. Esteve de Neri in Ansouis where I delivered a gorgeous picnic onto the terrace of the estate where we cleverly paired the vineyard's delish rosé.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The gang on top of Ansouis, a gorgeous village up high. </td></tr>
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Our hostess at the Bastide du Fanny, Marie-Pierre Bout, collaborated with us for an evening of art and music in which Frank's students displayed their work. She played the piano accompanied by her friend, violinist Jean-Christophe Selmi to a crowd of 60+, many were their friends who brought desserts or wine from their vineyard for the after party. It was a fantastic event to end the workshop week.<br />
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Muffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08158827534768683459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173645387890179007.post-270768917532785152019-06-05T04:50:00.000-07:002019-06-05T15:24:16.593-07:00Aunt Christine!! In the house!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Visitors have given us the chance to show off what great discoveries we have made in this region and to try out some new things....we got to know more of Marseille together....including traffic jams and confusing tunnels under the city with really bad signage that always lead to the wrong direction...which then needs to be fixed by driving for several more minutes around and under and through. HOWEVER, once you manage, there are delights to behold.....<br />
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We set out to find more Calanques (France's fjords) and our plan to visit the gorgeous Sormiou was halted by the closed access road...but amazing hikes will take you to Sormiou, which we have experienced and recommended to all who search the great beauty of Marseille's calanques....<br />
We headed to Les Goudes and loved what we found on this lovely, albeit VERY windy spring day...<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">Just because it looks like Christine is crawling on all fours to avoid being too close to the edge doesn't mean that is true.... This place feels miles away from those tunnels and wrong turns we took in Marseille...</span></div>
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But, just swivel around, and there she is, Marseille....with Notre Dame le Gard, sittin' like a marble cherry on top. <br />
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And on another day, back to Marseille and the old port with the Mucem art museum and fabulous outdoor spaces bridging literally the gap between old and new....below are pics from in and around the Mucem.<br />
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Mini person wood sculpture only 18" tall and projection beyond at the Mucem!</div>
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50 centimes gets you across the old harbor on the local ferry. <span style="text-align: center;"> </span><span style="text-align: center;">Walking through the Panier district...</span><br />
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Mother's Day...almost bought that fixer upper (above) at the base of the trendy but slightly raw Panier district...or maybe just dreamt about it...and then toasted all MOM's we love... at the bistro Hotel St. Louis. Windswept but very content...<br />
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And at day's end I texted Arlo in Prague telling him that I was bummed that he was missing from my Mother's Day photo. So he took care of that, below. I love you Arlo! Knucklehead...<br />
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And Arlo barely survived a cold (his blood was in a lab being tested back in France) that got so bad on our final day that we walked him thru alleys, losing our way several times, thru the rain at midnight, to the emergency room, into a courtyard, filled with cats (yes, cats, all over, on the hospital grounds)...the doc checked his throat with his iPhone flashlight (um hum). Results showed a double whammy of mono and pneumonia. Solid rest and meds and food got him through, plus sleeping in his own bed helped too. If you see Arlo, ask him how he most likely contracted mono. It's a good story.<br />
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Muffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08158827534768683459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173645387890179007.post-47968921809786509642019-05-14T06:07:00.000-07:002019-05-14T06:24:03.068-07:00Westville in Rognes....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Visitors from Westville for spring break! Wrapped in Van Gogh, wading thru chalk dust, or posing as a band...watching all our girls entwining themselves (literally) was my personal joy and a salve for all...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The illuminated quarry, The Carrières de Lumières in Les Baux, projects <br />
massive scale reproductions of Van Gogh's paintings inside a vast empty quarry. Truly brilliant. <br />
I think the next should be all Frank Bruckmann paintings....gotta get to work on the sound track and the merch...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Who wants to wade, masked, thru chalk dust? talc? in the dark? barefoot? not I. Fondation Carmignac.</td></tr>
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Muffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08158827534768683459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173645387890179007.post-67169780652891162392019-04-22T03:54:00.004-07:002019-04-22T08:32:45.827-07:00Spring Break!! Exploring Italy and Receiving Westville...Part I<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="text-align: left;">Besides the obvious, numerous benefits of living with Frank, we get to accompany him while he seeks out beauty to paint. Say hello (ciao!) to Italy.....Cinque Terre, Florence, Pietrasanta, Pisa (don't park in a restricted zone-or you'll get a fine as large as that leaning tower) and finally, the highlight of our week long road trip, the enchanting, crumbly, improbable, oozing and bustling VENICE!!!!</span></div>
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And while the first week of vacation, roaming thru the Northern Italy hot spots served my desire to explore more of Europe, the arrival of our peeps from New Haven for the 2nd week of vacay served another type of longing....thank you Margi, JoAnne, Riley, Maya and Elina for getting yourselves over here for a week of cozy coastal and cultural exploration! </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="text-align: left;">We found an amazing place set in the hills near the coast of Cinque Terre, run by a Dutch woman who relocated in Italy first for the love of a man and second for a ruin...together they renovated into the "B&B Il Tulipano" in Polverara, Italy. The people we meet are sometimes even more that the places we go and being in her hand restored home/inn in some random small town that didn't look like a tourist destination from the outset was an important stop along the </span><span style="text-align: left;">way for me. </span></span></td></tr>
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Cinque Terre was experienced by us minimally and through the rain and our ailing son....so we skipped thru it rather quickly because Arlo was feeling lousy (later test results confirmed mono and pneumonia-can you imagine being a teenager and walking with your family in the rain with that double burden?) BUT, we did LOVE the teaser of Portovenere, still gorgeous with the misty mantle....</div>
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Below are pics of our swift tour of Portovenere, the port town which sits at the end of the national park of Cinque Terre, known as the "6th Cinque Terre"</div>
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David welcomed us with open arms and stuff on the evening of our arrival....grazie for that, it sort of set the tone for our nighttime stroll thru a mysterious place, making me realize how cool it is to experience a place in the dark, meandering through and past places you've always or never heard of and then really feeling it....we ate on a plaza watching crowds thin, kids playing with a toy that spiraled up high with lights and crashed down with a backsplash of centuries old architectural masterpieces, all the while street musicians adding soundtrack to my own personal movie.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">We just had to see this marble quarry paradise for our neighbors Thea and Gar who have spent years sourcing marble for Gar's stone carving......it was a bit quiet on the plaza, it was Sunday afternoon, which Gar explained via video call was the time of day everyone was inside having their family Sunday dinner....so many inviting storefronts, chapels and cafes along the main drag.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">You know what it looks like...that leaning tower...so I will just show you my least favorable sights in Pisa...the parking ticket for a whopping 125 euros and the sore sight in the otherwise amazing food landscape of Italy...</span></div>
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Ok, on to the magical miraculous VENICE!!! We stayed in a spacious apartment not far from the entrance to this bizarre and meandering place. I'll resist captioning each photo as this blog template is crashing over and over again as I try to create this post.....</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">Walking thru narrow, even claustrophobic streets....and then happening upon this wide open Adriatic seascape!<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Below:</span><span style="font-size: small;"> Jorgie, Hazel and I</span><span style="font-size: small;"> water taxi-ed to the Isle of Murano... We watched a glass blowing demo and then jumped on a water taxi to return to Venice. Surrounded by g</span><span style="font-size: small;">orgeous views, the water taxi paused </span><span style="font-size: small;">and we stole a glimpse of the cemetery island....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I snuck away alone and found this dock (below) jutting out into the Grand Canal and sketched while life happened around me....speedboat deliveries, kissing Italians, German family with the littlest one catching my eye as I worked, solo Brazilian woman taking selfies to document her 30th birthday...me and my plastic bottle of Prosecco freshly tapped out from a keg from a store with no name, just one old guy and 50 kegs of whatever wine you want....bliss.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I have soooo many more pictures of this trip and so much to say, but frankly, the internet connection here in Rognes absolutely SUCKS and what normally takes minutes to compose has taken me hours today.... I have to get this posted so I can get outside with the dog! When my patience returns, Part II of Spring Break will be written.....</span></div>
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Muffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08158827534768683459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173645387890179007.post-267813431688439392019-03-30T07:26:00.001-07:002019-03-30T07:28:43.906-07:00Alphabetically Speaking in Images<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Arles</span> </h2>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px; text-align: center;">Gorgeous city on a Sunday afternoon visit<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Bird</span></h2>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stunned, but recovered and flew away</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Obviously found Frank's oil palette before decorating the <br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Dog</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Easter/</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">Easel</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Frank</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">Mistral</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It is a ripping wind that comes thru the south of France and sends laundry spiraling on the clothesline until the damp serviettes appear like a roll of paper towels and the dog has sought the smallest space in the house to cower. Sometimes, it is predicted on the weather report and never comes, and you are so busy being delighted by the cool temps coupled with the brilliant sunshine in March that you forget the Mistral wind was forecasted at all. Conversely, maybe you've set out to paint because the weather report looked perfect, and the next thing you know, that Mistral whips up suddenly and your canvas becomes a sail....threatening to carry the whole easel and palette over to the next village. Or it flattens the palette against your shirt, blows the painting face down into the sandy dirt or just spins you into chaos. Though unfortunate, such forces of nature are pretty incredible so respect is given, we make our peace and then carry on, what else is there to do???</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">Naples, one of the many cities visited by Arlo in the past few months....Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Budapest, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Prague, Rome, Venice, Vienna....his bus pulls into Aix-en-Provence tomorrow and I'll be the mom waiting with the big ear-to-ear grin. </span></div>
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Muffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08158827534768683459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173645387890179007.post-46766133982971663862019-03-13T09:08:00.001-07:002019-03-13T09:09:41.180-07:00I Think it's a Sign....(photo essay)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">...that a coffee at 4am that looks like this is worth getting out of bed for...</span><br />
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...that you REALLY need to find another place to pee...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...that great beauty is possible with simplest of materials....<br />
Bottle cap mosaic by Ghanian artist <a href="http://el-anatsui.com/">El Anatsui</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...that this is not the hiking route to take, perhaps....<br />
(I took it anyway)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...that Londoners don't treat dogs like the French...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">...that it is spring in Provence...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...that Arlo is all over the place...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...well, yes, exactly...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...that Frank's got some work to do...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...that Picasso made enough money while he was a living artist to buy a castle...(I find that reassuring)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...that we won't ever find a cooler cafe in which to wait for Jorgie's school bus...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...that I'm almost back to Marseille...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...that London (Tower) Bridge is NOT falling down...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">...that crashing with the Thier/Gould family in London was a total delight!<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">...that that isn't just a shower....</span></td></tr>
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Muffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08158827534768683459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173645387890179007.post-14566941709239946412019-03-11T04:18:00.001-07:002019-03-11T04:18:40.045-07:00One Artist Needed for Frank's Workshop in May! You??!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Frank is a damn good painter, as you know. In case you don't know, he is an excellent teacher, if you get the chance...he only teaches a weekly class in Rowayton, CT and he teaches a one-week long workshop on the gorgeous Monhegan Island. And that is it. These are the only times one can work with Frank to learn how to paint or to improve their skills....<br />
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BUT, this year Frank is offering a workshop in Provence.... in FRANCE, people! It is a painters' delight! THIS is where you want to paint. The light, the landscape, all things French! It just does not get any better that being in Provence, in May, experiencing a very full week of painting with Frank.<br />
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There is ONE spot left. So far the workshoppers are all return students and one brand new beginner art student. She has always wanted to take a workshop and after meeting Frank and I, she signed up. She will take off a week from her busy dermatology practice in Austria and do the thing she's always wanted to do. Are you in that category? Is being inspired by painting in Provence on your list of things you would like to experience? You will spend a ton of time painting, but there is so much more about this trip to look forward to...meeting other painters and seeing their work process and paintings, participating in art critiques during apero (happy hour), not having to plan, shop or prepare meals, living in the French countryside on a property with a pool and access to hiking trails and vineyards or villages and cafés...<br />
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Go to <a href="http://fbruckmann.com/provence-workshop-2019/">Frank's website</a> for all the details, and while on his site, treat yourself to his <a href="http://fbruckmann.com/">gallery of Provence paintings</a>.....<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Painting near Puylobier while the earth is awakening</td></tr>
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Ahhh, rows and rows of budding grapevines and trees just ready to burst! Provence will be green and flowery when you arrive to paint in May.<br />
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These budding almond trees won't be harvested until the fall....but what a delight to see in the chill of spring now....<br />
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Any questions, please email either of us at muffysart@sbcglobal.net or bruckmannfrank@sbcglobal.net<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One must remember to stand back to look at their painting!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oh, the views you will paint!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Find Frank amidst the almond blossoms and buzzing bees!</td></tr>
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Muffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08158827534768683459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173645387890179007.post-69597204960980144312019-02-21T04:44:00.001-08:002019-02-21T04:46:28.491-08:00Hello PARIS!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;">Paris! What a vast and gorgeous city (duh) Snippets from our daily walks below...through connections made in the 80's when Frank lived in Europe for 8 years, we stayed in lavish style, met up with fabulous humans and took to the city on foot! </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">Back on the Seine with his paint box...Frank caught the Pont Des Arts....</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">Marche aux Puces..Paris flea market north of city center. Endless alleys of sellers of all kinds of stuff.. We met friends and ambled thru an amazing range of things from novelties and high end furniture, not even sure if we made any purchases...then lunch at a Paris brasserie followed by a sunny afternoon walking up thru Montmarte and Sacre Coeur (for a bit of Disneyland-OMG so fricking crowded)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Friends Jean Marc and Kham led us to a hidden gem of a resto in Paris' Belleville, Le Mistral. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">Sharing a vat of chocolate mousse after a scrumptious dinner with Michael and Jaye at Chez Janou, Paris.</td></tr>
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And these three pics, caught from the quai on the Seine, as the sun set on my birthday...Thank you Paris! We are just missing Arlo...but he is off on his adventures, currently in Prague!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Inside the Jewelry Box, writing this blog, 6th arrondissement..thank you Sascha!</td></tr>
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Muffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08158827534768683459noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173645387890179007.post-84753815910622131692019-02-11T05:04:00.000-08:002019-02-11T05:08:08.081-08:00Fresh Paint for Frank's Website.....fbruckmann.com<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I love early morning drop-offs for Jorgie's school bus when this awaits! Mt. St. Victoire is silhouetted in the center under the morning sky. Another seeker got out of her car to catch the light as I pulled away in mine...we gave each other one of those silent, "I get it" nods.<br />
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And how does this photo of a brand new gorgeous day relate to <a href="http://fbruckmann.com/">Frank's website</a>? He updated it gloriously to include recent paintings from Provence and his Studio Still Life series from a few orbits around the sun ago....<br />
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Click it! Check it out! Any prices, sizes, inquiries upon request. Don't be shy!<br />
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In other Frank Bruckmann News...we are headed to Paris in a few hours for the school holidays...and will be the guests of friends Frank made decades ago in Paris while painting and modeling and dog-walking and starving. <br />
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Muffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08158827534768683459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173645387890179007.post-6192779098569518872019-02-06T04:50:00.001-08:002019-03-13T08:10:10.539-07:00Wood I?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Following a winding path through pine forests above Rognes....<br />
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The gnarly plein tree I seek out every time I walk the dog...<br />
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If you were thinking about trespassing in this village ruin, this would stall you for 3 seconds, at the most...We were tempted to steal it and hang it up at home...<br />
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A pair of "shelters" built simply of standard sheets of plywood. The burnt wood lines evoke veins on a leaf. They are off in a corner in the Place de Precheurs in Aix-en-Provence. Contrasting against centuries old architecture and being a cool relief, but mostly they were functioning as a partial cover for a young kissing couple.<br />
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This gnarly woody vine isn't captured well enough in a photo...so Frank stepped in to translate it for you...onto the canvas....the photo below is a teaser, just a detail from his series in progress of the beloved vine...<br />
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Frank is capturing their graceful curves and responses to the wind and weather of Provence. We will post photos of these paintings as his series expands...<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Trees, vines, wood, wine....we cannot have life without trees, and we cannot enjoy it as much without the vines! Hug a tree today! </span><br />
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Learning vocabulary in another language is easy. Communicating to people in a language you are learning is a completely different challenge. I often leave a French conversation wondering if they understood what I was trying to put forth, (or did they understand the exact opposite?). It is frustrating, and I am realizing that this is not a phenomena special to learning a foreign language. </div>
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Reviewing the words I speak in French many times over has forced me to review the words I speak in English with English speakers....and this is my conclusion....communication is VERY difficult...and sometimes I don't comprehend the perspective or intent of the person I am speaking to. My son shakes his head in impatience when I ask him to clarify or repeat...but I don't want to assume any more that I understand the intent of what he means. Nor do I want to fail when communicating my responses. I am very aware that the words I use are often misunderstood, even if my intent may be clear. Funny how learning a 2nd language is emphasizing what I am still grasping about communicating in my mother tongue...so to all my family, friends, and fabulous people that I have met through community, thank you for your continued patience!<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Frank pulled over near a concrete canal which many would just pass by...this gorgeous landscape only unfolds when one is willing to overlook and leave out the harshness of human construction. A closer look reveals the simple beauty of the hills and valleys; the quaint village in the distance...</span></div>
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View towards Cadenet, 30x40" original oil painting by Frank Bruckmann©<br />
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I imagine <b>it's all good</b>...from a dog's perspective....<br />
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Delighted to find a monk's priory and chapel up on the top of the mountain, recently restored, several volunteers buzzing around who make their 2 hour+ commute on foot.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">MAY 17-25, 2019 Rognes, FRANCE.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">If you can visualize yourself </span><span style="font-size: large;">painting under the blue sunny skies of Provence all day </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">with Frank's excellent </span>instruction <span style="font-family: inherit;">and dining sumptuously in a Provençal farmhouse with fellow artists by night, </span></span><span style="font-size: large;">critiquing paintings </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">whilst sipping locally grown and produced wines, contact us today. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://fbruckmann.com/provence-workshop-2019/">Here is the link for all those details and travel tips </a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">With fresh insight into this part of France, <a href="http://fbruckmann.com/provence-workshop-2019/">Frank has designed his workshop</a> to be YOUR painting paradise. You've always wanted to paint in Provence with Frank, so make it happen! </span></div>
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Muffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08158827534768683459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173645387890179007.post-53162072705901038572018-12-29T05:09:00.000-08:002019-01-28T00:15:03.908-08:00You are the Present....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
These people...<br />
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Christmas and New Year's occasions have brought my mom to Provence! She was thrilled to return to the place where she created the template for powerful memories from the year 2000, when she celebrated turning a certain age in the best of style...having her closest friends and our family together for a golden month in a fabulous French farmhouse in the tiny town of Egalyieres. We retraced her steps to visit the places that meant a lot while recounting and trying to entertain the kids with funny stories. Above, we were back at the chapel where in 2000 she watched Frank and I marry each other, while Arlo swam in amniotic fluid and my brothers, sisters-in-law, 3 nephews (albeit one also swimming) and 2 besties fully participated in our ad hoc ceremony that was super charged with love and energy.<br />
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Frank's found a new painting partner....see below...they've been heading out to capture the light and landscape together...<br />
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Our village of Rognes, France has an annual Truffle Festival and we spent the whole day at the market meeting friends and soaking up the winter sun and later cooked up a delicious truffle dinner with our neighbors....we all seemed to agree that they are delicious...a rarity in the family (having tastebuds that agree) but we are all sort of still wondering how this ugly little mushroom holds so many people completely captive...there were thousands wandering the streets of this little village...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">a "pop-up farm" set in the parking lot below <br />
Main Street in Rognes with the Foussa (ruins) above the village</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">cutest gingerbread cookies ever (except for<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tricycle musician with sound PA system, mic on trike, <br />
singing corny French and American Christmas <br />
songs that mom and I found totally danceable...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bon Appetit...Truffles from M.Gerard VALENTIN, truffle cultivator, and the dinner we made...and great neighbors, Minna, Cyril, Anton, Elias. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Live Creche! We participated in Cadenet's annual event, following the wise(wo)men up the winding streets to the grotto at the top of the village for traditional reenactments, sunset and hot mulled wine (vin chaud)</td></tr>
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Scenes from Christmas Time:<br />
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The holiday vibe in Aix-En-Provence is palpable. Nights are chilly but people filled with a bon humour....and outdoor cafe heat lamps warm it all up.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">Back at Place Richelme. New friends, the Hayrapets!<br />
A salute to Frank who didn't join us for the festivities....<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!!</span></td></tr>
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Muffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08158827534768683459noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173645387890179007.post-34203909228325138362018-12-17T01:48:00.000-08:002018-12-17T02:05:19.145-08:00Sneaking Around.....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="text-align: left;">Shhhhhhhh! I snuck some photos of Frank and poured through photos that he has taken, to try to figure out what he's up to all night in that studio of his....We are so lucky to have found a home with a detached studio....even though the lighting is a challenge, it still gives him his own space to work. But, just as well, if he had perfect lighting, I'd never be able to pull him away to the neighbors for apero, explore with the kids or to meet up with friends...I will show you what (I think) he is up to below....</span></div>
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I think there is a vineyard series on the horizon....I saw the beginning sketches of these totally cool vineyard machines that hover over and trim the vines after the vendange (harvest).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px;"><span style="font-size: small;">I saw so many views of this lovely rambling ruin atop some totally gorgeous hilltop. I think I need to personally visit this place....will have to remember to find out from Frank exactly where it is....</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">My photo, I confess. But I WANT it to be a painting subject...Les Baumes, pictured here, is a Sangliers Farm in Venelles. This farm is owned by a family that inherited property rather unwieldy for growing veg. So, they bought a few wild boar, and voila, now they grow and farm wild boars. Some are penned in and some roam the rock outcroppings above (click photo for close up). The 15 year old stud is massive and has his own muddy digs. They are curious and friendly creatures with lots of spunk....until, bien sur, they end up on your dinner plate. Alas. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">Didn't I tell you they were curious creatures???? (and really muddy)</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Here are some of the latest family member pics, to get a feel for what else is going on.....</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jorgie potting the tree so we can return it to its home after it spends Christmas with us indoors...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Arlo and Hazel up at sunset in the village of Lauris, Provence. <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The chateau in the old part of the village is a series of art studios, all with totally different shapes and sizes and of course, different art and artists....</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Someone else should caption this one. Kyela Puech, photo credit.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">And finally, I'm up to something too....feeling sneaky myself...packing and sending out these postcard sketches to collectors back in the US of A. Bon voyage! </span></td></tr>
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Muffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08158827534768683459noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173645387890179007.post-6262600743399101742018-12-09T03:52:00.003-08:002018-12-09T04:14:39.085-08:00High Places<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Mt. St. Victoire rises from the otherwise low hills and is like a beacon for miles. When driving into Aix, it will suddenly appear, stricken by light, or as a husky darkened form contrasted by the glow of the morning sky. Often I gasp, as it's majesty surprises me over and over....as it makes itself known repeatedly....<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just wanted to prove that Frank is not exaggerating the light!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On a weekend drive over the Luberon Mountains we visited Fort Buoux near Apt and Bonnieux. The magnificent ruins provided 360 views and signs of ancient life, including sarcophagi dating back to the 9th century, it was great to wander and wonder. At the top are deep trenches, vaulted cisterns (minus the tops), and other signs of building, both of shaped stone and carved in the solid rock itself. The view from the end, out over the deep valleys is magnificent and one of us couldn't handle the vertical drop which was severe and gut wrenching. We descended on a "secret set of stairs" which were utilized during attacks. Unbelievably steep and slippery, we could barely handle rambling down, and imagined how people under siege might retreat in full armor, with weapons or holding children!</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 12px;"> </span></div>
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Happy to find the field of daisies on the way up! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You want us to walk down THERE? it was steeper than it looks. I was looking for a belay rope!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At the tip top...don't look over the edge!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">Back in Rognes...where we have our own set of impressive ruins!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Something the Fort didn't provide....lovely outdoor cafe in the brilliant <br />
winter sun! Drinking coffee at Le Rancard, Rognes, France.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chateau Beaupre as a painting site.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Frank and I visited the local vineyard, Chateau Beaupre, in Rognes and got permission to paint on their grounds....what a treat...so lovely and spacious...great trees, grape vines and fields, architecture, easy parking, wine.....a very muddy stream/trench that Hazel enjoyed fully.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">Hazel entrenched in our vineyard visit</td></tr>
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Muffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08158827534768683459noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173645387890179007.post-62120444556356946332018-11-24T01:25:00.001-08:002018-11-24T01:25:17.730-08:00Practicing.Exploring.Gratitude<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Practicing:<br />
Frank spends a lot of time creating landscapes of his own interpretation and his work (most say) is pretty realistic, the colors are true and he is able to paint the best version of the subject on the whole. For instance, if a tree is in the wrong place for the composition, he'll move it. Artistic license gives him the freedom to make those choices. But, every so often I'll walk into the studio and gasp...because he's jumped into self portrait mode; a way to test himself that he can interpret with his brushes the one true thing he's always had....his face! Unlike a landscape or still life, the portrait doesn't give you much opportunity to switch things around and remain true. I'm sure you agree, he has passed this recent test with flying colors....<br />
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Exploring:<br />
Still so many villages, towns and cities to visit and paint...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ansouis is a gem of a village....love this pic of Arlo in the foreground while Jorgie and I get windblown</td></tr>
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Parked above the village and looking down at the charming Bonnieux, Frank found a parking spot that with his trunk swung wide open created an instant al fresco studio.<br />
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Hours into this painting, light has changed, Frank's taken a quick break and met some traveling muscians/artists who stopped to talk and burble over with excitement about his work.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Gratitude: It's the season for thanks...it's always the season for thanks. Frosty morning beside the vineyards, autumnal colors, Frank and I painting together near the goat farm and vineyard in Rognes, my Thanksgiving vignette on the terrace, local bakery centerpiece: a boule emblazoned with the crest of our village, herbs and flowering shrubs in green glass bottles with nametags for table, wine from the vineyard next door, olive oil drizzle on salad from the olives WE picked, still lots of green things growing in the Provençal fields and forests, old friends visiting from NYC, new friends from China and Provençe for Thanksgiving dinner, a favorite view of curving roads intersecting....which road do you take? </span></div>
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We (all 4 of us and the dog) had a week long road trip of meandering and finding cheap accommodations thru air b+b: in mobile homes, on an American horse ranch, sharing a tiny studio with bunk beds on the Atlantic coast and a top floor of an apartment building near the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. We saw some great stuff but back at home everyone was grateful to retreat into the privacy of their own rooms...<br />
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We twisted and turned through the Tarn region which is ridiculously gorgeous...houses built right up to vast stone walls, mossy waterfalls, all of which seem to spring up out of nowhere.<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">Lively and funky Florac on the Tarn, fringed with painted soup pots and meandering streets with interesting shops, products and artisans....We spent some time driving up and down and visited teeny villages and found endless pastures and stone walls and cows and clouds galore....</span></td></tr>
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Like us, many were glamping to go to Florac for the festival. The whole village cooks soup and serves it up on decommissioned wood burning stoves plopped on the sidewalk. Others make pottery soup bowls on a string and you each buy one, wear it around your neck and go from pot to pot. The village decorates with painted soup pots hanging everywhere and there are pop up kitchens and bars and bands and pocket musicians playing the hurdy gurdy, a strange as hell "caravan of curiosities" by 2 fab goth-ish sisters with stuffed ferrets, things in jars that used to be living...and many spectacles.<br />
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Making our way towards Barcelona, I planned a night on an American Horse Ranch. No one like the idea, but I persevered. Nick the French Cowboy, his GIGANTIC guard dog Bucky (who was muzzled) greeted us with Yvette, the lovely Aussie intern. They fed us a dinner of stew and sangria while Nick told us about his years as a young cowboy in Wyoming/Montana, all the rodeos, mechanical bulls ridden and trophies earned, the proof of which was up on the dusty shelves all around the saloon. Please note the snow in the Pyrenees beyond the horses....There is Bucky, on guard and dwarfing the ranch house. </div>
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We liked exploring Barcelona....vibrant and cheerful and steeped in history...great to learn about the Catalans and traditions and political situation...we stayed in the Sagrada Familia barrio right around the corner from the ever changing cathedral by Gaudi...It has been in the process of being built for over 100 years (please fact check) and they aren't finished yet, note the cranes.... What a legacy Gaudi left behind....plans for completion well beyond his years. Think about that....<br />
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The Basque Country looked absolutely gorgeous for driving thru, but we arrived towards dusk and missed much of the landscape. However, before we lost the light, we stopped to fill the gas tank and the kids junk food tank, we saw a herd RUNNING towards us (Jorgie). They followed her every move (smelled the Pringles). By the end, there were about 80 heads snorting and sniffing and curiously entertaining us.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">We drove westward to Zaragoza for Halloween which we all spent indoors because we (maybe just me) were cranky and it was rainy, so not much to report about Zaragoza though Frank felt it was a great town, reminded him of Madrid, 30 years ago. Pamplona was next, and it was All Souls Day. Everyone was off from work and in the bars and restaurants near the bull fighting arena. I loved the scale of Pamplona's plazas we lingered in a cafe for lunch and then headed to Biarritz (back in France) on the coast where they were still celebrating Halloween. The kids and I headed to the public garden where they decorated with a Wild West (American!) theme. See the ol' county jailhouse below??</span><br />
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Mount Ste. Victoire is ALL THE WAY on the other side of Aix-en-Provence from us and although we thought we'd know all the hiking trails by now, it just isn't the case. Our first day of exploring the area was windy, rainy and chilly, so we took in some sights and cafés instead of hiking or painting....However, Frank did take his easel that way later and here is the beginning of a larger canvas of ye olde mount, made famous by Cezanne.....just a start....stay tuned for the progress....<br />
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Check out the time-lapse video I caught of Frank before my arm fatigue was too great to continue. I have watched it way too many times to admit. Love how we can watch him sketch in the composition.... This is the vineyard just down from our house, previously mentioned. If you head down there on foot, you get to witness the neighbors' 4 dogs comically mauling each other to get a look at us passing by, or to get a piece of Hazel (our dog). It's hilarious...anyway, look at the video below:<br />
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Below: still an early phase.....still what he considers the "block-in phase" but this is with some color....I would estimate that this is within the first hour of the painting...my personal favorite phase to watch and observe....watching the blank canvas come into forms<br />
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Below: Fast Forward waaaaay ahead. This is Day 2 or 3. He is still not finished the piece, but it is much more than a block in at this stage.<br />
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Frank found this patch of pavement on which to paint during the siesta part of the day. The boulangerie just behind his easel does a brisk biz until 12:30pm, and then the baker goes home for lunch like everyone else and then returns for a late afternoon stint. She makes lovely boules with the crest of Rognes dusted on in flour and pastries and baguettes and tons of deliciousness that we haven't even tried yet.....but we still have (a few) months to do so.....<br />
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<span style="text-align: justify;">It's time for olive harvest, called the "recolt". We answered a call from a small farmer who needed some hands to harvest. We filled a container with olives that we gathered in exchange for a litre or so of olive oil from the exact olives that we picked. Being that this farmer isn't a pro olive farmer, I don't expect the oil to be exceptional, but since I know barely anything about what it takes to make great oil, perhaps we will be pleasantly surprised....</span></div>
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The leaves on the grapevines are starting to change to their fall color....different grape varieties change differently and at their own pace. Beautiful.<br />
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I painted in watercolor up on this old stone wall as Frank was below, painting the same view in oil paint. This may be the last painting before the leaf change....<br />
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And speaking of vineyards, a few Sundays ago I observed the annual mass to bless the grapes. With so many farmers and workers tied to the vineyards for their income and so many of us who need the grapes to keep providing, this is serious stuff! Afterwards, all unpacked their picnic baskets and ate lunch along with the wine and grapes that were available. It was a charming event...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">During the blessing, from within the old altar of St. Marcellin, Rognes, Provence, France..<br />
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Muffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08158827534768683459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173645387890179007.post-51630071235026281272018-10-14T06:05:00.000-07:002018-10-14T13:09:57.382-07:00Calanque-ing and Canyon-ing on Weekends<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We were invited to join a family at Jorgie's school to their "cabanon" aka, a rustic cabin down on the Sormiou calanque. If you don't know what a calanque is, then you will need to do a l'il research to an earlier blog post of last month....ok, now...in the states, I always laugh when someone says they have a "cabin" or a "cottage" and when you arrive you realize it is much better equipped than your full time home and you are probably underdressed. Well, had I known we were going to a "cabanon" I would have worn footwear for rock climbing and packed our contribution to brunch in Tupperware, not a glass pie pan to be heaved up and over rocks for the 2 miles from the gate where security mandated we park and walk. Though not at all prepared, IT WAS GORGEOUS! And, our host was unreachable (no wifi, no electricity, running water) and late. We had no idea where to go beyond down to the sea. </div>
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ahhhhhh, this view was startling.....on one side the center of the rocky cliffs open up to reveal the dense civilization of Marseille, the other side revealed the Mediterranean off of the Sormiou Calanque. I audibly gasped when the scene spread out before me...cant prove that, no one heard me, you'll just have to believe….<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">The cabanon, surrounded with this terrain.....it is crumbly limestone and ancient sandy soil with tons of prickly pear cactus, loaded with their thorny magenta fruit, scrubby indigenous thyme, rosemary, lavender, sage and others. All of these scents, including the air, sea, trees, and other wafting smells are known as the smell of the "garrigue". It is why the south of France smells the way it does, and it is a thing that will always stay with me.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">Inside Frederic, Claudia and Lilly's cabanon, built in 1906 by his great grandfather. they would travel by donkey with building supplies, water, etc. Now a very rudimentary pump from the cistern brings up water.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">Eye-scrubbingly adorable mountain town, "Moustiers-Ste-Marie" which is the gateway to the Gorges du Verdon...there were waterfalls and mossy slopes and mountain goats and a 16th century cathedral, small streets of endless outdoor cafes, pottery tradition of Faience.... and on the OTHER end of the charm, the first public WC toilettes I've seen this trip which was a hole in the floor with squatting footpads....<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">This week, we had a special guest chef in our home! Our friend Salam Al-Rawi (from Westville's Rawa) dropped by in his jaw dropping 1964 Caddy that he had restored in Lebanon!.....He has spent the last month driving it through Turkey, Italy, Greece, and into France. After having some minor mechanical stuff mended in Avignon, he piloted that beauty up our dead end street and stayed overnight, but not until we got busy in the kitchen....we fused Chinese rice noodles with provencal grilled zukes, lots of turmeric and other ingredients (that stained my "new" old damask linens from the Acco Decco in Aix-en-Provence, c'est dommage).<br />
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Muffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08158827534768683459noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173645387890179007.post-44646651581128596332018-10-05T07:03:00.001-07:002018-10-05T07:03:28.418-07:00Rognes: The "Hometown" Village Series<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Rognes has so much variety for a small village, perfect for Frank: ruins, farmhouses, miles of vineyards, churches, cobbled streets, dense village center, charming shuttered windows, doors and cars....here is just a taste of some of those things...<br />
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For those of you who are Patrons* text me if you fall in love with a sweet 5x7" (notice dimensions of all paintings in captions below) and I will ship it off once it is dry! But no need to rush, there will be many more to come...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Traspigut Vines. 10x20"oil painting by Frank Bruckmann®</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chemin in Rognes. 5x7"oil painting by Frank Bruckmann®</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Traspigut Bastide. 9x12"oil painting by Frank Bruckmann®</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vineyard.Mas.Mountains 5x7"oil painting by Frank Bruckmann®</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eglise in Rognes 5x7"oil painting by Frank Bruckmann®<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;">*Patrons have funded Frank's trip by buying a painting ahead of time. The $1000 down payment comes with a fantastic extra bonus, a gem of a 5x7" oil painting that I will send to you during our sabbatical in Provence! If you want to know more about becoming a Patron of Frank, get in touch. </span></div>
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