July 14 is “le Quatorze,” or Bastille Day, and a friend and I arrived at the beach early to beat the crowds. This is a little beach in Cassis that I had been to only once before but had fallen completely in love with it and wanted to paint Cap Canaille, this imposing huge red rock jutting out into the water. It was a toasty day and no shade to be found, so I jumped in the water several times during the course of this painting so that I didn’t absolutely burn up while making it!

This painting is part of Summer in le Sud (“luh sood”, a French word meaning “the south of France”), a series of paintings and watercolors made en plein air (outside, from life) as an artist-in-residence with the Leo Marchutz School.

Original oil painting on canvas. Painting size 16”x24”; overall size framed is approx 17”x25”. This is a diptych of two 12”x16” canvases framed together as one; they were painted together as if one canvas and are meant to stay together, not separated. This painting comes framed in a natural oak floating frame and is ready to hang.

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Merci for choosing to have a piece of my summertime on your walls!

xo Clare