Painting workshop in France day 3
Today we went to the flowery village of Chanaz in Savoie. This village is very tiny but so unique. A little canal goes through the village. It connects the Rhone river to the Bourget lake, the biggest natural lake in France. Nothing is more peaceful than painting in the woods, with the birds singing around you, looking at the village and seeing boats go by.
Everyone found a spot they liked along the river and they painted while Victoria was helping everyone. When everyone was exhausted, they all sat on the grass watching Victoria’s demo. She painted an old boat as you can see in the picture below.
Victoria’s demo.
Students watching the demo
Susan painting
Bev painting
Jackie painting
Victoria helping Joyce with Sandy in the background.
We also attended a walnut oil making presentation in a 19th century mill listed historical monument. The stone mill, the oven and the press were all 140 year old and still functioning. This is the last walnut oil mill functioning full time in France. Tasted it was amazing: so pure. Needless to say that everyone bought some oil, even people who do not cook!!!.
Jac
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May 18th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Jac,
thank you for these photos of the ladies painting in thier short sleeves. Gives me hope that I am packing correctly, I have put in a mixture of short and long sleeves, and my rain jacket is in the outside pocket of my carry-on back pack.
Lovely to see the ladies at work, brings back such good memories. I just called Sylvia and told her to check it out and we were reminising our experience there on the telephone as we looked at the pictures.
I love Victoria’s painting, really good! That photo of her helping Joyce would be great for both of you to use for PR of painting trips.
See you soon, hi to everyone from me, Sandy