#23 / View from the driveway

 

#23 / View from the driveway

The first time I’ve painted the view from outside on our driveway. The odd shaped tree reminds me of a kitchen tap and always catches my attention.

It’s the last chance I have to paint the scene before all the leaves come back on the trees. The view is quite different during the long hot Summer months. We have a peripatetic flock of sheep that munches its way across the field. Among the sheep there are a number of goats with enormous pointed horns. They wear large bells around their necks the produce the clanging chimes so synonymous with Pagnol’s Provence (Manon des Sources etc…) All quite idyllic… (apart from the great thundering freight trains that lumber along the tracks at six every morning)

I’ll sit out again and paint the same scene when the angle of the sun changes and the leaves have all grown back.