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I haven't sketched outdoors lately, but I can't miss Crozet vide grenier! Now the 6th year in a row that I sketch it :)
A beautiful bright autumn day to be out.
Showing posts with label Vide grenier. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vide grenier. Show all posts
Sunday, September 29, 2019
Sunday, September 30, 2018
Vide Grenier 2018
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This is one of the nicest days of the year in Crozet, the Vide Grenier. And it has become a tradition for me to draw it! 4th year already, three of them sunny. I've been lucky!
Great ambience, lots of known people, drawing, chatting... I just love it.
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This is one of the nicest days of the year in Crozet, the Vide Grenier. And it has become a tradition for me to draw it! 4th year already, three of them sunny. I've been lucky!
Great ambience, lots of known people, drawing, chatting... I just love it.
Sunday, September 24, 2017
Vide grenier 2017
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Another year, another vide grenier in Crozet!
And, for the second year in a row, under a beautiful sun!
(If you don't remember what a vide grenier is, I invite you to check last year's entry, where I explain it in detail.)
This year, as usual, the night before I planned to get there very early, at first hour. And as usual, reality was way more relaxed and we only got there at around 10:30 in the morning. We walked around, got a little dinosaur for our youngest kid, and then I just looked for a spot to draw while my daughter had some fun with her old school friends and my husband and the two boys walked our dog back home.
Drawing in the vide grenier is always funny, because there's lots of people who come by, comment, and give me nice conversation. The most eager talkers are children!
After this first sketch we've grabbed some food at the buvette (the bar) for lunch. At the vide grenier, food is cooked by Crozet's grannies, and there are also hot dogs for the kids, so the choice to stay is easy! After lunch, I've stayed a bit longer for another quick sketch while my family went back home.
Next week, La Foulée, and also the Arts Association in Crozet annual exhibition! :)
http://www.carolinadeluca.com/urban-sketching
Another year, another vide grenier in Crozet!
And, for the second year in a row, under a beautiful sun!
(If you don't remember what a vide grenier is, I invite you to check last year's entry, where I explain it in detail.)
This year, as usual, the night before I planned to get there very early, at first hour. And as usual, reality was way more relaxed and we only got there at around 10:30 in the morning. We walked around, got a little dinosaur for our youngest kid, and then I just looked for a spot to draw while my daughter had some fun with her old school friends and my husband and the two boys walked our dog back home.
Drawing in the vide grenier is always funny, because there's lots of people who come by, comment, and give me nice conversation. The most eager talkers are children!
Next week, La Foulée, and also the Arts Association in Crozet annual exhibition! :)
Sunday, September 25, 2016
Sketching the Vide Grenier in Crozet
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Once a year people in Crozet empty their houses of the stuff they don't use anymore, and a big market is organised. It is like a giant garage-sell, where everyone from the villages, or from neighboring villages, can participate. It is called a "vide grenier", which literally means "empty barn", because probably the barn, or the grenier, is where people used to accumulate the stuff they wouldn't use anymore.
In a vide grenier you can find almost everything, toys, clothes, bikes, books, music, useful things and things that you have no idea what are they for. You can also find all types of sellers: professional ones, with high prices and who participate in all possible vide greniers; normal people who are still attached to their things so they put as well very high prices and sell little. And others who just want to not come back home with their stuff and they almost give away their things.
And yes, the other thing you find it the vide greniers is buyers, or people walking around, people talking, touching, negotiating. People. People everywhere!! So that's what I drew today :)
This is the first sketch of today. In the background you may recognise the mairie of Crozet, which I sketched yesterday with my daughter.
The second sketch, people shopping, looking around and passing by, with the chapiteau in the background.
And the third and last of my sketches. The little bar restaurant where everyone buys their lunch, also myself :)
The day has been great. Super sunny, but not hot, nice environment, and nice people who stopped next to me while I was drawing and gave me nice conversation. Few of them also posed in funny ways and had a good laugh. So I'm looking forward to sketching La Foulée in Crozet next week!
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Once a year people in Crozet empty their houses of the stuff they don't use anymore, and a big market is organised. It is like a giant garage-sell, where everyone from the villages, or from neighboring villages, can participate. It is called a "vide grenier", which literally means "empty barn", because probably the barn, or the grenier, is where people used to accumulate the stuff they wouldn't use anymore.
In a vide grenier you can find almost everything, toys, clothes, bikes, books, music, useful things and things that you have no idea what are they for. You can also find all types of sellers: professional ones, with high prices and who participate in all possible vide greniers; normal people who are still attached to their things so they put as well very high prices and sell little. And others who just want to not come back home with their stuff and they almost give away their things.
And yes, the other thing you find it the vide greniers is buyers, or people walking around, people talking, touching, negotiating. People. People everywhere!! So that's what I drew today :)
This is the first sketch of today. In the background you may recognise the mairie of Crozet, which I sketched yesterday with my daughter.
The second sketch, people shopping, looking around and passing by, with the chapiteau in the background.
And the third and last of my sketches. The little bar restaurant where everyone buys their lunch, also myself :)
The day has been great. Super sunny, but not hot, nice environment, and nice people who stopped next to me while I was drawing and gave me nice conversation. Few of them also posed in funny ways and had a good laugh. So I'm looking forward to sketching La Foulée in Crozet next week!
Sunday, September 27, 2015
Vide-grenier 2015
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Again was time for the vide-grenier in Crozet today, a huge garage-sell where everyone in the town (and abroad) can sell their old stuff. The day was quite humid and grey, but still there was a lot of people selling, buying and just having a nice time out. It started to feel kind of chilly though, drawing there outside!
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