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Ivan Berardi @artivandesign.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yesterday we went to #LacLongemer for a picnic and short walk. I painted this quick #watercolour of a beautiful cluster of trees by the water. Once at home I added some oil pastels and black not-so-fine liner.

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Ivan Berardi @artivandesign.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We went for another long walk today to the Tanet, one of my favorite spots on the Crests. We had a picnic by this rock outcrop. Leaves were swirling away. Watercolour sketch

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Ivan Berardi @artivandesign.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

After a while we walked through a wood. The trees were mostly high altitude Beech trees, their trunks and branches moulded by the wind. Acrylic, palette knife on sketchbook.

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Ivan Berardi @artivandesign.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

About 20 mins into our walk, looking back to the Observatory that from this angle seemed to stand on the top of a volcano. Acrylic sketchbook #vosges #landscape #sketch

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Ivan Berardi @artivandesign.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Autumn is showing up, our destination was behind the tiny liliac mountain you might see in the distance. Acrylic on sketchbook

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Ivan Berardi @artivandesign.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Here's another one of my made up“leftover” forests. As in painted with leftover colours. I'd like to be in it.

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Ivan Berardi @artivandesign.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm still in Italy. My husband sent me a photo taken on his dog walk this morning. Autumn has definitely arrived in the #Vosges. Watercolour

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Ivan Berardi @artivandesign.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This is a selection of the pieces I sold this summer at the arts and crafts market. Happy days!

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James Hartman @1earthman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

An oil on canvas that is in a collection in New Zealand. #oilpainting

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Ivan Berardi @artivandesign.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The Îles Marie Louise are small islands that break up the Vologne river in #Gérardmer. Named after a local duchess who was very fond of the river pearls that grew here.

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Ivan Berardi @artivandesign.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The Lac Vert, so called because of the green algae that turn it green each summer. #vosges #landscape

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Ivan Berardi @artivandesign.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Yesterday’s stream has already found a new home. This new work depicts the Sentier des Roches (Rocks trail) arguably the best trail in the area.

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Ivan Berardi @artivandesign.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Another baby off to the market. This is one of the many unnamed streams that flow in the forest near me. #vosges #gerardmer #landscape

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Ivan Berardi @artivandesign.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This is a watercolour that behaved.. interestingly.. I think due to how the paper below it was treated with a layer of something, I don't know what. I call this the Wood awakes. #vosges #gerardmer

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Ivan Berardi @artivandesign.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Sketchbook spread from leftover colours

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Ivan Berardi @artivandesign.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The picture this small painting is based on is so incredibly intricate that I didn't know where to start. A cacophony of leaves, branches and reflections. This is the small creek flowing out of Lake #Longemer #vosges #Gerardmer

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Ivan Berardi @artivandesign.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Maybe a bit more whimsical (not even sure it's the right word) than I intended….

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Ivan Berardi @artivandesign.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I've painted this view many times. A new treatment today. The most colorful so far, maybe a hint of autumn. The #Hohneck - #Vosges -

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Ivan Berardi @artivandesign.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The building where I grew up. Second floor. In my beloved Brescia. 10 minutes #sketch

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Miz Katie @mizkatieart.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Mentally Segregated Gouache on paper Available: artbymizkatie.etsy.com/listing/4461... #blueskyart #art #gouache #painting #portraitpainting #naiveart #originalart #humanartist #traditionalart

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Ivan Berardi @artivandesign.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Nitro playing in the garden. Quick question/ suggestion. Are any of you creative people on Substack? I'm just saying because I love it there and thought you might be interested in giving it a try. Cheers

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Ivan Berardi @artivandesign.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

This is the Lac des Corbeaux ( Crows lake). It's beautiful and when seen from above, from the slopes of the mountain, it has a perfect heart shape. #vosges #france

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Ivan Berardi @artivandesign.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

This started as a small watercolour, but I ended up covering it in acrylics. Funny how last year I was all for watercolour on brown paper and now I'm responding more to brighter shades. Anyway, I like this one, it's of a path I walk at least once a week. #vosges #gerardmer

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Ivan Berardi @artivandesign.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

A made up forest landscape painted with the leftover colours from the Pont des Fées illustration. I think I actually prefer this rougher kind of approach, at the same time I have to think about the market and what sells there. I’d like to see what happens if I offer something like this.

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Ivan Berardi @artivandesign.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

This is another view of the Pont des Fées. This time in acrylics. Not happy with being built by the faeries, apparently Charlemagne rode on the path next to it!

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Ivan Berardi @artivandesign.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This is one of three similar postcard size paintings I made of the same scene, and the last one remaining. My new favorite spot: Lac Retournemer

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Ivan Berardi @artivandesign.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I wanted to go back to the previous scene and do a more detailed version, but I think I like ( and enjoyed sketching) the other one better

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Ivan Berardi @artivandesign.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Fresh from the market in Longemer. France is about to play so a little quieter than usual,but still a good afternoon

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Ivan Berardi @artivandesign.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

And the last series for this week’s market. The Pont Des fées: the Fairies Bridge. The name actually comes from the local dialect for “conifers” but since that word is quite similar to fairies many legends have been told about the bridge’s origin

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Ivan Berardi @artivandesign.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

A series of quick original versions of the same landscape. One I painted several times before: the view over lake #Retournemer and #Longemer #vosges

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Ivan Berardi @artivandesign.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

This is the Meurthe on a hot summer day.

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Ivan Berardi @artivandesign.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

First day at the art and craft market

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Ivan Berardi @artivandesign.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I went back to the same creek. This time I wanted to use a different palette. Liezey - Vosges

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Ivan Berardi @artivandesign.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I added a few highlights and some details. I think it's better. Funny to think that this water will travel from this small village, through France, Luxembourg, Germany where it will join the Rhine and eventually end up in the North Sea! The creek in Liezey. Watercolour

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Ivan Berardi @artivandesign.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Today we went to wet our feet in a creek in Liezey,a lovely hamlet nearby. I enjoyed sketching this and I like its fluidity. But I need to add more contrast especially in the water area

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Ivan Berardi @artivandesign.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

We took Nitro to lake Retournemer yesterday, to cool down and enjoy a bit of fun in the water. It's such a glorious spot. This is in watercolour on brown paper, postcard size. Nitro is in the comments 😊

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Ivan Berardi @artivandesign.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

First picture, we went to cool down walking down ( over ) the Meurthe river, a minute after the photo was taken i fell in the above mentioned river and my phone has been spending a couple of days in a bag of rice! On the left a, mostly plein air watercolour of the forest near me. Yep, more trees!

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Ivan Berardi @artivandesign.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

At this time of the year the forest floor is carpeted in blueberries ( not quite ripe yet). Here they are wonderfully called Brimbelles. #Watercolour on brown paper #forest #art #humanart

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Ivan Berardi @artivandesign.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Quick sketch in crayons while walking Nitro. In the early 19th century pastures covered a much larger area. With new opportunities farms were abandoned and the land reclaimed by the forest. All that remains of the Miselle farm is the fireplace. #sketch #foredt

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