a painting of Bordeaux and the new dig

 

Here is the first work for 2014,  a request for a painting of Bordeaux, not quite a commission.  We'll save the detials.  

And here is the new dig, check out the light

 

It's not a spacy as atelier 28 of La Fabrique des Artistes in Ivry-sur-Seine...

 

but I do have heat and hot water - sigh. 

This atelier is up to rent if you are intersteted contact the chef at the Fabrique.  I left 60 cans of spray paint for the future artist.

The last painting for 2012

Uptown Traffic

60x120cm

oil on canvas

This is the last painting I'll complete for 2012.  The paint went on easily as this is on one of those fantastic canvases stretched on one of those super lightweight bars that I order from Zecchi in Florence.  Pieraccini is who makes them but won't sell direct.

Nonetheless the price is better than buying local art supplies and the quality, no comparison.

 To think that the canvas stretchers here in Paris are dinosaurs.  Can't beat the Italian design.

Anything I post after this for the rest of the year was painted before.

Experimenting with spray paints

This is one of the largest paintings I've done recently; 100x150cm.   I decided to post my progress.  It may become the invitation to my next show:  The Grand Marché d'Art Contemporain at the Bastille (Paris) from 1 to 5 November.  We'll see when it's finished.

An exciting thing that I recently wished for is to utilize spray paints in my paintings.  To my delight, when I moved into my new space I discovered boxes of spray paints that my friend left for me.    

It's great to be experimenting again. 

Here is a detail.  I think that it blends well with my urban landscapes.  I love that the colors dry so quickly and leave an absorbent matt surface.  It makes for great contrast with the oils.

Here is a detail of the top left corner, looks like an iced cake, that's the spatula knife.  

133 Haribo Tagada

Haribo Tagada

oil on gessoboard

15x15cm (6x6 inches)

It was nice to catch a ray of sunshine in my studio for about an hour.  The direct sunlight makes lovely contrast, much more inspiring than electric lighting. Note that only the sac and shadow are painted, the background is just the color from the defective tube of Ivory black that I bought.  It tends towards a red-purple.  I'll be sorry when the tube is finished because I don't know what color to look for.  The color is close to mixing normal Ivory black and cadmium red but the consistency is different.  Ivory black is smooth like soft butter and cadmium red is pasty.  This defective tube of Ivory black that I'm using is neither and even if I mix the latter two the consistency is just not the same.

This will be for sale at the Grand Marché d'Arte Contemporain 28 October-1 November 2011 - Bastille, Paris.

STAND 54 under the tent.  If you need tickets let me know.  There are over 1000 artists exhibition and the quality is pretty good.

Times Square Taxi Nite

Times Square Taxi Nite

60x120 cm

oil on canvas

Here is my progress since Friday, whew.  This small it looks hyperreal but it's not.  Most of the light is very thick brushstrokes.  I'm very happy with this so far. 

  The light comes from inside the painting.  Though it looks finished there is still lots of work; mostly, the upper right hand side is unfinished and details of the middle ground taxi need to be added.  What every one of my clients has said who have bought a night scene is how the painting changes in different lighting.  With a light shining directly on the painting it is one thing, with the lights in the room turned off,  the painting seems to give off light.  No one mentioned what they look like in TV light.

  It's a trick I've been working on for about two years.  This one epitomizes my night scenes.

Fire Escape Shadows NYC cityscape

The first week back in the studio has been very busy.  Here is one of the three paintings I projected.  And the gobs of color I mixed.

I was worried because I am painting over an old painting and thought the paint wouldn't stick well.  When I mixed my medium the varnish bottle seemed to control itself — too much went in.  

I also thought that the painting underneath would make my eyes criss-cross.  It did but the paint went on so well, it made applying the paint almost better than sex. 

Here is as far as I got.  Next week it will be ready to hang.

The catalogue of New York Streets

After a long summer school started, yipee!   I'm free again and back to painting.  In preparation for the Grand Marché d'Art Contemporain at the Bastille in a few months I've prepared a catalogue of New York cityscapes.  It's available on Blurb.  The next winner of the "Name The Painting" contest will get a copy.  And this time it will be delivered quickly.

Here is a sample:

clic the link to see view in a new page: New York Streets, by Angie Brooksby

A video of painting a Police Horse

Work work work paint paint paint... Buzz Buzz.

A box of Chocolate Prailines

A Box of Chocolate Prailines- n°59
private collection

 What better thing to eat on a rainy winter day.  I had to go down around the corner to Jadis Gourmand 

The problem was which ones to choose!  The perfume of cocoa is so overwhelming, not for the weak and meak.  I love chocolate!

Eclairs

Eclairs- n°54  
private collection

52 Poivre Vert- original oil painting by Angie Brooksby

Poivre Vert- n°52 
private collection

15 Canele - oil painting by Angie Brooksby

 

Canele - n° 15

oil on canvas board  12 x 22 

Fraicheur du Sud, oil painting by Angie Brooksby

Every pastry shop in Paris makes works of art. I wonder how they decide the names. 

Fraicheur du Sud

N.8

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Jean Claude Van Dam in Jardin de Luxembourg

 

Jean Claude Van Dam in Jardin de Luxembourg

N. 3

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This is number 3 painting of the daily works of Parisian life. The guy sure looked like Jean Claude Van Dam but maybe I was dreaming.