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Easy Painting while Traveling August 6, 2019 Favorite Watercolor Painting Tools Every artist has his or her favorite tools when it comes to painting. I...

Returning to Carmel-by-the-Sea to paint has been a family tradition for over 20 years. With my Aunt Ellie Weakley and her teaching partner, Cathy Goodale, Carmel is where I first started painting en Plein Air (painting outside from life). I remember going for the first time and trying to paint a full sheet (22” x 30”) watercolor of the Carmel Mission on my very awkward Russian Easel and feeling quite insecure about the effort.

Plein Air Painting in Provence | Cindy Briggs Art & Watercolor Paintings April 25, 2017  Sénanque Abbey near Gordes in Provence is one of my...

Transportation and My Apartment Tour March 21, 2017 First I walked.  Then I bought a bicycle with Dina and Bernard and rode it out and...

Painting and Pondering Life in Provence: Springtime in L’Isle sur la Sorgue, Provence

From the snowcovered, frozen landscape of Bend, Oregon, I have traveled to the charming and much warmer village of “L’Iles sur la Sorgue” in Provence. In this I will be sharing my experience as I discover the stillness within my heart and soul and give myself the time to write, paint, ponder and just be.

I used to feel that every painting I did had to end up in a frame.  A few years ago I started adding an art journal to my supplies when I traveled and found painting in the journal gave me freedom.  Freedom to paint just for me.