Painting Tour: Paris and Brittany 2-16 September 2013
Monday 2 Sept [Paris]
Meet at hotel 10am
Visit the Pompidou Centre, galleries nearby, lunch at the creperie next to the Stravinsky fountain of Niki de St Phalle. Late afternoon tour of Paris by boat on the Seine.
Tues 3 September Paris
Musee Rodin, sketching at Rodin museum. Explore Paris.
Emmy at Musee Rodin Notre Dame, Paris
Wed 4 September [Paris]
Life drawing class at Academie Charpentier. 6pm Louvre
Thurs 5 September [Paris]
Orangerie to see Monet’s water lilies and Impressionist gallery. 6pm evening at Musee d’Orsay
Fri 6 September
Visit Giverny stay at La Roche Guyon
Pick up bus. Leave Paris and drive to Giverny, Monet’s garden. Lunch at Giverny. Spend afternoon at Monet’s garden and nearby Musee des Impressionismes. Stay in nearby village on the Seine River at hotel ‘Au Bords de la Seine.’
Giverny Sketching at Giverny
Sat 7 September
Long drive to Brittany to Granville [3 1/2 hours via Caen]
La Roche Guyon to Caen: 2 hours to lunch stop at Caen. Explore Caen and lunch. mid afternoon head to Granville. Stay in hotel in Granville, explore village and beach.
Musee d’Art Moderne Richard Anacreon and Dior Museum at Granville. Old city.
Granville Mont St Michel
Sunday 8 September [Cancale]
The next week will be spent with a mixture of exploring Brittany and painting, drawing, sketching.
Granville to Mont St Michel [45 mins] Spend day at Mont St Michel. Painting views of Mont St. Michel at low tide, colours reflected in the mud and in the fishing port.
Enormous tides, the 1km causeway to Mont St Michel. Guided tour of the Abbey.
Night at Cancale –[50 mins from Mont St Michel] A sheltered bay famous for its oysters and fishing port.
Cancale
Mon 9 September [Cancale]
Stay at idyllic Cancale as a base to visit St Malo [15kms/ 25 mins] and Dinard
Boat trip from St Malo to Dinard and its beautiful beach.
St Malo , 12th century walled city. Fortifications by Vauban.
St Malo
Tues 10 September [Roscoff]
Drive from Cancale to Roscoff. Visit Dinan , set high above the River Rance, narrow cobblestone streets and half timbered houses, en route to Roscoff [2 hours]
Dinan
Wed 11 September [Roscoff]
16th century granite houses, pretty port surrounded by farms of vegetables, particularly onions. Creperies and seafood. A ferry trip to the Isle de Batz and its luxuriant gardens. Isolated beaches nearby.
Painting on beaches and/ or in the port.
Roscoff
Thursday 12 [Camaret sur Mer]
from Roscoff to Camaret [1 hr 40 mins] Drive through the forest of “Parc Regional d’Armorique”
Camaret sur mer
A classic fishing village with abandoned fishing boat carcasses in the harbor. Lots of art galleries. A beautiful village for painting and wandering along the beach and rock pools.
Friday 13 September [Concarneau]
Camaret to Locronan [50 mins] and Douarnenez [12 mins] to
Concarneau [50 mins]
Locronan: granite houses, cobblestone roads, Polanski’s ‘Tess’ was filmed here.
Douarnenez: sardine town!
Pointe du Raz- famous peninsular with spectacular views. Sunset painting at Pointe du Raz.
Arrive Concarneau evening.
Locronan Locronan
Pointe du Raz at sunset
Sat 14 Concarneau
Visit the 14th century Citadelle of Concarneau, fish markets, large fishing port.
Base to visit Pont Aven 15 kms
Musee de Pont Aven has paintings by major artists, including Gauguin. Also see Le Centre International d’Art Contemporain. Pont Aven School - artist colony emerging 1850's,led by artist Paul Gaugin developed a style called Synthetism.
Concarneau
Pont Aven Pont Aven by Gauguin
Sunday 15 September [Chartres]
Concarneau to Rennes 2hrs 10mins
Rennes
Rennes for lunch and stay for about 3 hours, explore medieval city and half timbered houses, markets, Musee de Beaux Arts. Drive to Chartres 3 hours. Display of our artworks at Chartres.
Monday 16
Chartres to Paris 1 hr 15 mins
Our mill at Chartres.
Arrive Paris midday. Tour finishes.