Rue Monge Blue Hour -

 

-Rue Monge -

-80x80 cm-

-oil on canvas-

Rue Monge corner of Avenue de Gobelins, close to the Starbucks.  This painting makes me think of the book Maze Runner. That is what I listened to while painting.

Rue Monge will be part of my upcoming show that opens in Saint Germain des Prés the gallery district in Paris's 6th Arrondissement. To be announced very, very soon.

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Parisian waiter painting

Summer 16 -

50x50 -

oil on canvas-

It's not supposed to read sixteen but seize, for the beer 1664.  When you order a seize it comes in that glass. 

Another Parisian Cafe Painting -

La Terrasse Saint Jacques

- 80x80cm-

oil on canvas

This canvas is definitely among my favorites from the Parisian cafe series.  This cafe is also one of my favorites even if they serve bitter Cafe Richard.  Since moving to Paris and finding cafe life and discovering of Ivory Black pigment, I've painted several cafe scenes.  There is not much Ivory Black in this, more Titaninium white.  Extra fine.

I like this painting of mine because it blends a contemporary approach with an intemporal subject and it doesn't look like New Impressionism.  I hate new impressionism.  What is it anyway?  Most I've seen is a bad rehash of Impressionist paintings.  If you know of a good New Impressionist painter please tell me.

When I was in art school at the Maryland Institute College of Art, same school Jeff Koons attended, I learned to paint white on white.  It didn't make sense to me. But Jeff Koon's art doesn't either. Now I know why white on white is worth it.  A photo on the web does not show you what I'm talking about.  You'll just have to come see it in person.

This will be available in my upcoming show in Saint Germain-des-Près.  

Eat your heart out.

Cafe de Paris, original oil painting of a Parisian cafe

- Cafe de Paris

120x120 cm, oil on canvas

Behind the glass block is a pink neon that backlights everything.

9 -Postcard of Paris - The barmaid at Cave la Bourgogne

  9- The barmaid at Cave la Bourgogne

pen and ink and watercolour on Arches -

10x15cm -

• sold

8 Postcard of Paris - Café at Cave La Bourgogne

8 Café at Cave La Bourgogne -

pen and ink and black guache on archival paper -

12x16cm -

• for sale, euro 20 (twenty euro)
• posted worldwide to the address of your choice.

• To purchase: please email  Angie at tuscanartist @ yahoo.it 
• mention: postcard number 7 Cave La Bourgogne
• paypal accepted
• check accepted only if are already on my client list

6 Postcard of Paris - au café the winning card

6 Au Café -

pen and ink and black guache on archival paper -

12x16cm -

sent to Massachusetts

5 postcard of Paris - Line at Poussin Vert, Luxembourg Gardins

5 Line at Poussin Vert -

pen and ink and black guache on archival paper -

12x16cm -

• for sale, euro 20 (twenty euro)
• posted worldwide to the address of your choice.

• To purchase: please email  Angie at tuscanartist @ yahoo.it 
• mention: postcard number 5 Line at Poussin vert-
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• check accepted only if are already on my client list

4 postcard of Paris - wine at La Terrasse Saint Jacques

4 Wine at La Terrasse Saint Jacques -

pen and ink and black guache on archival paper -

12x16cm -

• for sale, euro 20 (twenty euro)
• posted worldwide to the address of your choice.

• To purchase: please email  Angie at tuscanartist @ yahoo.it 
• mention: postcard number 4 La Terrasse Saint Jacques -
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3 postcard of Paris The Royal on rue Saint Jacques

3 The Royal on rue Saint Jacques -

pen and ink and black guache on archival paper -

12x16cm -

• for sale, euro 20 (twenty euro)
• posted worldwide to the address of your choice.

• To purchase: please email  Angie at tuscanartist @ yahoo.it 
• mention: postcard number 3 The Royal on rue Saint Jacques -
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Limited Palette, the BD look

25x25 oil on linen 

 For years now everyone who sees my paintings in the beginning stages tells me to leave them like they are.  So be it. 

Recently Suzanne came to a party and said, "that is the Paris of my memories." 

Urban life was less colourful.  Neon signage wasn't in your face and we didn't have cell phones.  Quel horreur.  No internet. Sacré Bleue.  Things were dusty, or perhaps it's my memory.

So I've had BDs in mind. If you're French you know what a BD is.  It is a bande dessiné, a graphic novel.  The French are master illustrators. Here is a great website BDNET.COM  to find the latest tendences and those all time classics.  I love XIII. 

Eat your heart out.

Help me choose a title for this painting

Parisan Cafe oil painting - 120x120 cm (48x48inches) -oil on canvas -

 Any idea what title this painting should carry?  As you can see it is not finished.

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

A medal from the Ville de Paris

Balzac à la Rotonde

60x60cm

oil on canvas

Balzac is that green thing on the right.  He stares south at the corner of Boulevard Raspail and Boulevard Montparnasse just accross from the taxi stand next to the café La Rotonde. I don't think many people notice him, but he's there.

Last night I was at the city hall of the 5th arrondissement in Paris at the prize ceremony for the artists of the 5th. To my surprise I was awarded a bronze medal for painting from the ville de Paris.  How thrilling.  Then about twenty of us went to dinner near Cardinal Lemoine at La Voie Lactée, a wonderful Libanese restaurant.

Here is a photo:

And here is what Paris looked like last night.  Margritte was here once, you can tell.

The Douaniere - working progress

Here is the third step: blocking in the third grounds.

Below is my palette.

The mix of colour is quite strange: Cadmium white, cadmium yellow lemon, ultramarine blue, ivory black and, golden ochre.  Years ago I never dreamt of mixing that together. 

Tu Es Où?

Tu Es Où?

oil on linen canvas, 60x60cm

Tu est où?  Isnt' that the first thing we ask when we answer the telephone these days -- where are you?  Doesn't matter which language.  This painting is part of the Parisian Blue Hour paintings a series I've been working on since 2008.  

Finally, after more than four years I am understanding what it is that thrills me about painting the city.  These last three paintings along with Hotel du Louvre and Place Colette summarize the execution of the inspiration.  First it was people, then the color black, then it was night scenes and people, the long lasting blue sky, then it was neon signs. But these are the settings for the theme.

 It is the abstraction that night lights create first in my camera's lense; the big chunky spots of light that my spatula knife can spread onto a canvas like butter on bread. Yummy!

This will be for sale at stand 54  in the tent (chapiteau) at the Grand Marché d'Art Contemporain from 1-5 November

Contrescapre Soirée

Contrescarpe Soirée

oil on linen canvas 60x60 cm

This is from the Mouffetard series, part of the Parisian Heure Bleue series.  I'm happy with this painting, only if it were a larger canvas.  This will be on display and for sale at stand 54 of the GMAC Bastille, Paris 1-5 November. 

Russ on Muffetard

Russ on Mouffetard

oil on linen canvas

60x60 cm

This is all about  l'heure bleu, that is the blue, hour when the citylights and the sky are both light before night. Here in Paris, during the summer, it lasts for hours.  That day Russ was there.

And here is a photo of the kids paintings from the open studio day.

Great light I have, love this place, the kids did too.

rue Vavin

Rue Vavin

oil on canvas 50x100cm

Some paintings paint themselves, this one did.  It feels good to paint Paris again especially this time of year when the light in the sky is blue until after 10pm, the Blue hour.

Here is a photo of the painting a few days ago, note that I start with the brightest colors.

Le Dome

Le Dome

60x60cm oil on linen

The Dome is one of those gorgeous historical cafe's on Boulevard Montparnasse, a great place for a continental breakfast and people watching.  This is another from the series of the Parisien Blue hour.

It feels good to finish a painting.  After all the parties the last few months I was seriously wondering if  I needed to hire some new elves, you know, the ones that paint while I socialize.  Isn't that what artists do? Yes, we hire elves to paint for us.