Joel and I took a trip late last year to Provence, in France. After working non-stop on the book, we felt we deserved a reward for all our work. Off we went to the land of Van Gogh, Gauguin and Cézanne, to experience some of that famous Provençal light that they were obsessed with (it really is a thing). It was beautiful to experience the area in late fall when everything looked extra golden and the tourists were few and far between.

We also had pretty great weather for plein air sketching, the only tricky part this time was how the sun set so early in November, so we had to plan our time accordingly.

My plein air setup