Scribble Picnic - the French UMBRELLA -

It was a day I had dreamed about. . . . . . . . for many, many years.

A visit to Giverny. 

Monsieur Claude Monet's house and garden.

An early September morning.

Cool, sunny, and just about perfect.

A piece of paradise on earth.

Claude Monet's impressionist style paintings transferred to silky fabric umbrellas - 

displayed outside the garden shop at his home at Giverny, France. . . . . . .

. . . . . . . and I've kicked myself ever since for not buying one!
I have an appointment this morning and it's raining quite hard so an umbrella
may be required. . . . . . . and the garden will be happy.

Photographed by me on that special day, PicMonkey assisted b/w sketch, then
 colored by hand with watercolor and regular English-made Derwent pencils.

If interested, here's the link back to my blog post for that special day in 2015 - the

 garden was truly spectacular.

GIVERNY

Hope you stop here at Scribble Picnic to see today's
UMBRELLA  art being shared at Michael's always fun art
 happenings.

We'd love for you to join in too!

Claude Monet's Giverny. . . . . . . . .

It was lovelier than I ever imagined!

Especially for the time of year. 

Who would have thought (other than those of you who kindly shared such positive 

comments on Claude Monet's gardens when you visited in other than spring or summer),

that late September, in northern France, would bring perfect weather to view one of 

the loveliest small, almost natural gardens, in the entire world.

The fact that one of the most famous, most talented, most loved, Impressionist painters
 ever, designed and planted such an abundance of glorious plants, shrubs and trees,

is a wonder. That Monsieur Monet sat in a wooden boat in the water lily
 pond - and yes there were still some blooms floating in the early morning 
sunlight - transferring his garden with paint onto canvasses to make them last forever,
 and bring much joy to those of us who love this painting style, cannot be explained in
 just a few words here.

Please enjoy a quick look around the gardens - I only brought my light and easy to
 carry Nikon Coolpix on this trip (and of course kick myself every now and then wish
 I had the DSLR!), but I think you can get the idea of how beautiful yesterday
 morning actually was for all of us who took the excursion to
 Monet's gardens in Giverny.

Later, I'll share more of the gardens and the interior of the lovely Monet family home

Hope you love it all as much as I did.