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Showing posts with label FRANCE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FRANCE. Show all posts

Monday, June 22, 2015

A Texan's Viewpoint on the European Kiss - White Tulips - Nancy Medina Art Classes and Workshops


The Kiss - White Tulips
by Nancy Medina
16X16
Oil on Deep Gallery Wrap Canvas






There is just something about that European greeting, the kiss, that always takes me by surprise. Not that I don't like it, I could get used to it, but being a gal from Texas, we were taught "The Hug" rather than "The Kiss" and so going in for the hug and suddenly getting lips on your cheek is like discovering you're doing the Cotton Eyed Joe when your partner was intent on the Texas Two Step. It's really just a different point of view on a greeting, and one that is much warmer, even than a hug. Like I said, I could get used to this whole European thing! And it's a good thing, since my France workshop is coming up in August. Mon cher, I must pack again soon!


For now I'm finally back on Texas time, the unending rains have cut off the main road into and out of Flower Mound, and I'm so thankful, yet again, to be a work at home artist! We're not paddling around in boats, though it sure looks like it from the national news. Not to worry, I have plenty of Dove chocolate and crackers and cheese. I can hold up literally for days on such awesome rations!  

Here's a new video I created for you - break out the popcorn and enjoy a view of my workshop in Tuscany last week! Next stop, France! 

Click here for the Tuscany video!




The studio models take a bow!




Escape to Southern France!
August 4-14, 2015

Monday, September 1, 2014

Some Like It Hot Red Poppies - Flower Paintings by Nancy Medina

http://nancymedina.fineartstudioonline.com/workszoom/1549267

Some Like It Hot Red Poppies
by Nancy Medina
14X14
Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas




Your mission should you choose to accept it - *cue Mission Impossible theme music*....travel to Southern France, unplug the Inter-Web thingy, taste test a few pounds of delicieux gelato, feast your eyes on rolling hills, medieval villages, and flowers, and shop at the local markets until you need to acquire a new suitcase for the trip back home for all your new treasures...!

Why am I going to France? I'm doing a bit of advance reconnaissance for our trip there together for my painting workshop next August! My first workshop is full, but I have a few seats left in my Aug. 4-14, 2015 workshop at Le Vieux Couvent. I've saved some creme brulet with your name on it! Read more....



http://nancymedina.fineartstudioonline.com/workszoom/1549267

 Poppies blooming on the easel!





Sunday, May 11, 2014

Midnight Blue Hydrangeas and a French Dream Workshop - Flower Paintings by Nancy Medina

http://nancymedina.fineartstudioonline.com/workszoom/1464020

Midnight Blue Hydrangeas
by Nancy Medina
16X12
Oil on Archival Panel

Midnight Blue Hydrangeas is a new small work completed a few moments after midnight. Today was spent packing for my Nashville, Tennessee workshop. I've got to be a little strategic, since I need to leave enough supplies here for my Irving, Texas workshop, coming up in 1 week. It never fails I always discover one color I am almost out of right before ship day! It's like Murphy's law or something...I can blame it on the flurry of activity since I launched my France workshop on Thursday. The class is almost completely full, with only 2 seats left. It's the good kind of busy to be!

Read more about my France workshop here!



http://nancymedina.fineartstudioonline.com/page/4705/august-19-29-2015-le-vieux-couvent-southern-france-new

Saturday, September 29, 2012