Here is your first step into painting Provence without leaving home. You’ll need to either copy or trace the line drawing below. It’s a sketch of the farmhouse in Provence owned by Julien and Carole, our friends in Provence. We stayed at their Farmhouse B & B many times while we were painting and exploring Provence. In my drawing I combined the farmhouse with a tree and a field of poppies I saw places nearby in the Luberon region, the clothes line comes from my imagination. (You know I love adding a clothes line every now and then.)

HOW TO PRINT OUT THE DRAWINGS - MAC INSTRUCTIONS: GO TO ‘FILE’ ON YOUR DROP DOWN MENU IN THE UPPER LEFT CORNER OF THE SCREEN AND FIND PRINT. CLICK ON PRINT AND WHEN THE PRINTING SCREEN SHOWS UP ON YOUR DEVICE, CHOOSE TO PRINT ONLY THE PAGES THE DRAWINGS ARE ON. ON MY MAC LAPTOP I PRINTED ONLY PAGES 2 AND 3 AND IT PRINTED LIKE A CHARM! WINDOWS INSTRUCTIONS: RIGHT-CLICK ON ONE OF THE DRAWINGS AND FROM THE MENU THAT APPEARS, SAVE THE IMAGE TO YOUR DESKTOP OR OTHER LOCATION ON YOUR COMPUTER. OPEN THE IMAGE FILE FROM YOUR DESKTOP OR OTHER COMPUTER LOCATION AND PRINT!

You have options on how to print out the drawing. You could print a few copies on regular copy paper or if your printer will do it, print it right out on your watercolor paper. If you want, you could also draw right onto your watercolor paper lightly and not bother to print out my drawing. Feel free to add or subtract or change anything you like in the drawing to make it more to your liking.

So now you have homework to do. Since we are stuck at home, we truly have HOMEwork. Get this drawing on your watercolor painting and do some shading on an extra copy to get familiar with where you want your dark, light and medium paint to go.

I posted a video on Youtube with more instructions. Find the video at HERE and tomorrow we will work on your painting. So, turn off the news, get out your pen and pencils and get to work. It is ok with me if you stream tv while your are painting, cause that is my favorite thing to do.