Street art inspiration from Bergerac
Week 39's colours are Malbec Red, Emerald, Mustard & Slate
Meandering through French villages and towns has been such an inspiration over the last three weeks. Discovering gems like a 11th century Romanesque church just down the road from our accommodation is such a thrill. Last week we went on a trip further away, to the larger town of Bergerac.
This town sits on the banks of the river Dordogne, it is quite sprawling (although that’s relative) with a beautiful and well preserved historic centre filled interesting medieval architecture
In total contrast to the ancient buildings, a selection of of well placed street art can be found, the majority created for the annual Street Art de Bergerac festival orgainised by Art Tak.
The one that caught my eye is a large abstract with simplified wine bottle shapes as well as green, yellow and deep red colour blocks. It was painted by @brez72 and is the featured artwork for this week’s coloricombo prompt.
Mathias Brez (1972-) hails from Rennes in France and says that his works lies between abstraction and figuration. Paintings are inspired by the panorama whilst they play with the surfaces that are available to him.
This composition for the festival in 2024 brings together all the graphic elements of the façade and evokes the region’s wine-growing specialities. The artist’s website is here and his Instagram here. The organisers of the festival are here.
For Art Tak, mural, Mathias Brez, 2024
Video Demo
Today I recorded a demo for contributing subscribers where I incorporated an antique key as decorative shape along with the limited colour palette. You can see the two sketchbook drawing outcomes and you’re welcome to printout this antique key and use is as a template, stencil or reference to create from.
Colour Combination
The colours this week are Malbec Red, Emerald, Mustard & Slate. Use the colours along with a contrasting dark and neutral light colour if you wish. Create an artwork in any medium or style.
I love seeing what you create. If you’re posting on Instagram, please tag #coloricombo and #estemacleod and join us in the private Facebook group Creative Prompts.
Explore Abstracts I starts next week!
If you are ready to level up your art practice and learn how to incorporate different media along with acrylic paint and paint mediums this course is for you. Abstraction is an ideal way to focus on what materials can do, and explore how layering techniques result in rich and interesting paintings. By mastering these techniques you can incorporate them in all kinds of themes and topics, from still life, landscape and floral paintings, abstraction is a central element to my creative process in my own practice.
Offered for a final time, this cours runs as a ‘live’ scheduled option from 6 October to 16 November and registration is open. Use coupon code EXPLORE15 for a 15% discount off the listed price. Find out everything about the course here.
If you’re a contributing Coloricombo subscriber, read on for details about your 25% discount code. This code is valid for any of my online courses and is one of the advantages of a paid-for subscription, along with exclusive content and full access to the many demo recordings in the Coloricombo archives here on Substack since the beginning of 2024.