Extract from a travel and sketch book in the Vosges -hohneck

Small stay in the Vosges July 2023. A few hundred kilometers from Brussels. A nice typical rental. The opportunity to take back my Travel diary. But it is also the opportunity to test to draw watercolor and black marker small mountains covered with fir trees. Also draw the typical chalet of the Vosges that we had rented for a week. A small excursion reminded me that the mountain and I are two. Look at them yes, climb them no. So I stopped at the beginning of the ride on Mount Hohneck to draw the landscape.

Excerpt from a travel and sketch book in the Vosges - the chalet
Excerpt from a travel and sketch book in the Vosges - the chalet

The rental was this little chalet very typical « Vosges ». The nearest bakery was 10 km away.

Excerpt from a travel and sketch book in the Vosges - the street

View on the « Street ». With its mini mountains. 150 meters of elevation with no views at the top. Trees are everywhere and close the horizon. Trails are steep and rarely used.

The Zen pond of the Vosges

Excerpt from a travel and sketch book in the Vosges
Excerpt from a travel and sketch book in the Vosges
Excerpt from a travel and sketch book in the Vosges - evening, watercolor

My little happiness in these Vosges was the small ponds run by the owner at the bottom of the property. « Its Zen Garden », as he calls it. Me, it allowed me to play the Monet with his small private pond of painter. A great serenity.

Mount Hohneck

Excerpt from a travel and sketch book in the Vosges - mont hohneck

Mount Hohneck watercolor. From the beginning of the ballad that my vertigo prevents.

Excerpt from a travel and sketch book in the Vosges - the garden

Break in the garden with Françoise and Arthur.

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