Live painting demonstration tomorrow in Lille

Tomorrow, 3 October I"ll be in Lille at the galerie Carré d'Artistes for what they call a dédicace.

Come see me paint and I'll write a personalized dedication on the paintings you buy or have already purchased.

In the last six months I've completed nearly 80 paintings for this show alone.  I look forward to meeting you there.

Here is a link to the gallery Carré d'Artistes Lille

Demi Apéro
80x80
oil on canvas 

Merry Christmas

 

 -Demi Apéro -

 - 80x80cm  - oil on canvas -

Have a Merry Christmas.  I hope you get what you desired.  

#Contest - Title this painting -

Waiting for your title

120x120 cm oil on canvas -

Contest:

-title this painting-

-all of the characters in the painting are using a cellphone -

prize: 

-hand drawn postcard of Parisian Cafe scene-

Rules:

• Contest open until 10pm Paris time tonight, that gives you 11 hours
• Suggest a title for this painting directly on my Facebook page here : AngieBrooksby
• only one title per comment
• Please note that the suggested title MUST contain the word rosé, like in rosé wine.  What title would you want it to have if it was hanging in your living room? 
• you can enter more than one title but in a separate comment
• The title with the most likes in 11 hours wins a hand drawn postcard black ink on archival paper 
• Winner chooses one of the available postcards (up to this date: 20 nov. 2014) posted on my blog. 
• In case of a tie, I will chose my favorite title. But you still get to choose the card you like.
• Best way to win is ask your friends to like your comment.
• Postcard sent to the address of winner's choice anywhere in the world within 10 days.
• The last card was sent to Massachusetts, USA

Another Parisian Cafe Painting

 

120x120 cm (sketch stage) --

This is my 101th painting in 2014.  Eighty-eight were small formats and thirteen large.  Before I was working for Carré d'Artistes I'd spend a month on a painting this size, now this size flows out in a week.

The waiter is delivering a bottle of rose to the table in the sunshine.  Nothing new about that but everyone in the painting is fiddling with a mobile phone.

L'Heure de l'Apero

l'Heure de l'Apero

Huile sur toile
60x60 cm

This is a view from Boulevard Montparnasse at the Select.   I'm sure the waiter would recognize himself.
This painting will be for sale at the Grand Marché d'Art Contemporain at the Bastille in Paris from 1-5 May stand 102

Parisian Waiters from Le Select

 

Deux Gars

oil on linen 80x101cm

This is unfinished but you get the picture, right? 

The title is Deux Gars because the French cut off all these words like garçons, ordinateur, publicité... Hey les gars? What's up? looking at your ordi?  What's the pub?  (pub is pronounced like boob.)

The photo for this comes from Le Select on boulevard de Montparnasse.  It's one of the famous literary cafés in Paris.

Come see this painting at the Grand Marché d'Art Contemporain at the Bastille in Paris from May 1-5. Stand 102 is mine.   

The Chef

I Am The Chef

50x50 cm oil on canvas

This painting will be on display at 

the Grand Marché d'art Contemporain - GMAC Bastille, Paris

from 1-5 May

Stand 102

if you'd like an invitation please contact me

Fresh Pressed Juice

 

Jus Pressé

70x50cm oil on canvas

I tried to change my style and paint on white canvas but it just doesn't suit me.  So this painting is a mixture  of smearing, veiling and alla prima.  Someone told me that the shirt of the man is too evident.  That is exactly my intent. I'm pretty happy.  

The cafe is on the corner of rue Saint Placide and rue de Cherche Midi in the 6th.  I have to go by and thank the owner for letting me photograph them at work.  Surely the waiter will recognize himself.  

The same person who commented on the shirt also said that the eyes of the waiter should have looked direclty at the viewer.  But that doesn't work in this kind of painting.  The figures if front-on must blend, therefore the waiter's eyes are less evident than the white shirt.

This is part of the new series that will hang in my stand n 102 at the GMAC Bastille from 1-4 May

I love Paris!