my new atelier

Here is my new space.  I just moved in the day after returning from a five week adventure in Tuscany, Provence and Corsica.  

The space is in La Fabrique in Ivry-sur-Seine, where I worked from 2007- 2009.  It's not the same atelier, this one was where the artist Farah Atassi was working.  I feel lucky to follow her into this space, maybe some of her awesome success will rub off my way.

The exciting thing for me is that here I can use spray paints; use graffiti technique, pochoir, tagging, etc. in my canvases.

Here is a detail of the floor under the wall where Farah worked.  I decided to not cover it up, it's just too cool... 

Green Light

Green Light

oil on canvas, 40x40cm

I've been hiding out painting the last ten days.  This highway intersection is in Long Island, the power lines are amazing in Long Island. 

Below is what I am working on, note how the bright colors are blocked in first.  They set the tone for the whole painting.  The middle ground is an abstraction of juxtaposed colors and contrast.  It's a scene from Boulevard Saint Germain in the 6th- Paris

Cake au Fruits condits, oil painting by Angie Brooksby

 

Cake au Fruits Condits - n° 10 .

Oil on canvas board, 14 x 22  cm,

signed and dated  on back.

100 X 100  Gourmandises

PROMO the first Postcard of Parisian life

 

"Promo" 

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This is a book store on boulevard Saint Michel that is open in the evening.  This painting was one of the first of the Parisian night scenes.

This is number one of the Postcard Painting of Parisian life.  Inspired by several artists that make daily paintings and blog about them and auction them. I decided to start painting postcards of Parisian life. The one artist in particular that really got me was Stephen Magsig that does Postcards of Detroit.