By Alison Hall

I recently travelled to Normandy, France for a week-long travel sketching workshop organized by French Escapades. Among other things, the trip included a visit to Monet’s home and garden in Giverny as well as a day in Auvers-sur-Oise where Van Gogh spent the last few months of his life.

Here are a couple of the watercolour sketches from that trip:
The first is of a 16th century mill in Vernon, the last of several that once operated on this section of the river Seine.

The second is a detail from the garden behind the Hotel Baudy — popular with many artists travelling to Giverny, including Pissarro, Rodin, Cassatt — where the last of three painting studios has been preserved just as it was in the late 1800s. Yes, a hotel with studios for artists!

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