French Fusion Travel

08/11/2024

Free, loose, easy sketch.
Learn to sketch houses and buildings like this with artist Albert Kiefer ( on Instagram)
All levels of ability and experience (or none) welcome.
Literally anyone can learn to sketch like this with ease.

MAY 22-29
Join Albert and me for a week sketching in daily workshops in Strasbourg France May 2025.
Get a ** free copy of Albert’s new book on his technique
plus *** a set of his marker pens to see how easy and quick it is to create such effective sketches en plein air.
Bring your paints and pencils too if you like and enjoy an intensive week of sketching together in this fabulous region of France.
It’s a box of chocolates with half wooden houses and ancient beautiful architecture everywhere.
4 star quality accommodation
Fully escorted tour.

https://frenchfusion.com.au/tours/strasbourg-france-sketching-with-albert-kiefer-housesketcher-may-2025/

A TRIP OF A LIFETIME

15/10/2024

A sketch I did in the heavenly Languedoc region of France.
Join us sketching and staying in our own private, historic mansion with pool near the Canal du Midi sketching for a week with the illustrious Alex Hillkurtz instructing us.
Amazing value
Extraordinary experience
The Real France
A trip like no other

June 12-19

https://frenchfusion.com.au/tours/painting-retreat-southern-france-with-alex-hillkurtz-june-2025/

13/10/2024

Gosh Strasbourg in France is beautiful!
I’m running a fabulous tour there in May next year sketching with the utterly amazing, kind, talented, popular Albert Kiefer.
As a gift we are giving all participants Albert’s latest book “Housesketching” and supplying everyone with a great marker pen set to try his super easy sketching method.
Check it all out at
www.frenchfusion.com.au

25/08/2024

Only 5 rooms left on this small group tour sketching Strasbourg in Alsace, France May next year with the outstanding, talented, all-round nice guy Albert Kiefer or on Instagram.

13/08/2024

A wonderful week next June in 2025 with Alex Hillkurtz in France.
Join us sketching, painting, exploring laughing on a Sketching Retreat near the Canal du Midi in Languedoc France.
Fully escorted tour packed with history and painting and relaxing by the pool.
Detail on our website
www.frenchfusion.com.au

21/07/2024

One of my favorite streets in Paris.
Rue Galande.
Steeped in history you can see all around this area in its buildings, churches, street signs and stories.
As an Australian I think 150 years is old - let alone 1,000 years.

18/07/2024

Join me and the wonderful Housesketcher Albert Kiefer sketching in France with 7 days workshops.
Do share this with others who may be interested.
5 rooms still available

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17/06/2024

The extraordinary Etang de Montady dug out by monks in the 14 th century . Still used exactly the same way 800 years later.

17/06/2024

Canal du Midi, Languedoc sketching

11/06/2024

Sketching output on a delightful day in Sarlat on our tour.

11/06/2024

The murals of Beziers, the 9 locks of Beziers and the amazing Etsng de Montady.
This area never disappoints.

09/06/2024

Dordogne.
Superb for sketching

09/06/2024

Just finished a superb week taking a sketching tour in Sarlat, Perigord in France.
Beautiful in every way.

02/02/2024

Join me in France this June sketching daily in the beautiful Dordogne region with amazing artist Ian Fennelly.

Info on this link

https://frenchfusion.com.au/tours/dordogne-france-sketching-tour-with-ian-fennelly/

13/02/2023

The last remaining survivor of Oradour sur Glane has just died at the age of 97.
What happened?
As retribution for the D Day landings and in a mistaken town identity, members of the SS raided this quiet little town in central France on 10th of June 1944 and slaughtered its inhabitants who were mainly women, children and the elderly. They fired into the kneecaps of the men in the barn where they were herded and locked in. The mothers and children were locked in to the church.
They then set fire to the town before getting drunk to celebrate this achievement.
No one was ever convicted of this crime.
When Charles de Gaulle visited this ruined town in 1945 he decided it should forever remain a testament to the butchery of the N***s.
It is visited by every child in France and … many Germans and German schoolchildren come too.
To remember.
And to never forget.

I have been there many times myself.
In silence.

Read this survivor’s story below.

Robert Hébras worked tirelessly to preserve the memory of theses events, which resulted in 643 deaths. He died on Saturday at the age of 97.

10/12/2022

Did you know that Christmas markets began in Strasbourg France? The first one took place in Strasbourg in 1570 – it’s still going strong and the “Christkindelsmärik,” as it is known, is the oldest Christmas market in France. Strasbourg is known as the “Capital of Christmas”.

10/12/2022

Merry Christmas photos from Sanary sur Mer in the South of France on the Med. Stunning photos by Gilles Magisson

10/12/2022

Merry Christmas photos from Sanary sur Mer in the South of France on the Med. Stunning photos by Gilles Magisson.