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Hey girls, need a new pair (no.2) – Work in Process

parisdreamtime art blog Paris — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:45:22 +0000

For the girls: Shoes, Perfumes, Jewellery - watercolor, ink

Working on this fashion illustration, for now I added typo with computer, but I’m thinking about doing some calligraphic writing to enhance graphic character of this painting….will have to learn more about it.

Lots of Little Panda-Bears

parisdreamtime art blog Paris — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:41:09 +0000

Mom with Baby - Ink Drawing in my Moleskine Notebook

For those who already can see the Spring arrive with pink blossoms: It’s still Winter here.

Mothers still have to bundle up their babies, so that they stay warm and cozy. Which is why they often look to me like cute little Panda Bears:)

I’m caught up with preparations for the upcoming collective show here in Paris, (for more information about this please go to my Facebook fan page, you can find the link in the left side bar, just click on the Eiffeltower) - at the same time I’m busy with the design of a new website, and with updating the administrative part of my job as an artist. So there is not much time left to focus on my new painting, ……but I can always share my sketchbook with you! I grateful for having these occasions to just sit and draw, thanks to my daily Metro-trips…

What do you see on your trips to town? Do you take a notebook with you and do you have the occasion to draw or doodle?

Le Pianiste Place de la Contrescarpe

parisdreamtime art blog Paris — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 10:51:51 +0000

A sunny cold Sunday afternoon in Paris in late autumn, 5th arrondissement, Place de la Contrescarpe. People are sitting on the “Terrasse du Restaurant Delmas”. Listening to the piano player, chatting with friends, looking at the passersby. Is there a better thing to do on such a fine day?

Le Pianiste Place de la Contrescarpe - Paris V. Watercolor Painting, 9,5 x 12 in - 24 x 30 cm

©estandrea 2010 purchase information: you can buy this original waterpainting, please contact me cestandrea at gmail dot com if you are interested!

Today, January 7th, 2010, snow has fallen during the night, all the cars in my street are white, a very unusual sight. It’s minus 6° C, which is very cold for Parisian standard. People have packed their Christmas-window decoration away (we did too), and you can see discarded Christmas trees in the streets, waiting to be picked up by the garbage removal. A friend of mine always says: “January is the longest month”, she means that it seems to stretch out forever.

Yesterday was the 6th, which means that many families celebrate Epiphany, buying a “galette des rois”, a fine filo pastry cake, with a filling of marzipan. This cake traditionally comes with a golden papercrown and hides a “Fève” which means “bean” but is not a bean. Probably it has been in former times, but now it is a little ceramic figure, representing the miniature holy Mary, or a bottle of wine or a little animal or whatever. So,the person who picks the part of cake with the “Fève” in it, will be the king. King of the day.

Yesterday was also the start of the winter sales here in Paris. So, again, the metro is crowded with people on a shopping trip, hunting for their favourite designer clothes at a reasonable price. In my favourite little boutique “Cinabre” on Boulevard Voltairebought a calf-long plum colored wool skirt, and a fine black wool top, made by a Japanese designer, plus two bonnets (hats), one rasperry colored and flowerpotshaped:) , the other grey and more like a “casquette”, oh and a pair of earrings, all at a very reasonable price. I’m wearing this now, and will soon brave the cold outside. Waiting for spring already….. Have a wonderful week!

PS: just an information which might interest you, if you also promote your art via Zazzle: I stop working with Zazzle as one of my readers ordered postcards with my prints, and was very disappointed about the bad quality of the paper. I then decided only to sell my original art or original prints on demand, do the printing myself on first quality art paper and deliver a certificate of origin with it.

Les Parisiens Avant Noël – Pre-Christmas Parisians

parisdreamtime art blog Paris — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:29:56 +0000

The Pre-Christmas Parisians in the Métro, everyone who can afford it spends money on Christmas Presents. But many help others too, they give money to the poor and help out in the makeshift Soup Kitchens, which are installed at several places in Paris, now that we really have minus 4°C, which is exceptional for Paris.

Homeless people are invited by patrolling policemen and Red Cross helpers to join the many existing shelters or those who have been set up expressly for these cold nights. Often they refuse to go because they are afraid of the promiscuity in such places. So death happens every winter, despite special cold-alert-progams, and sometimes death seems unavoidable cause help isn’t accepted. Or because nobody payed attention and the patrol can’t be everywhere. That’s the way it is?

Les Parisiens Avant Noël

©estandrea2009

Dogs are ubiquitous in Paris

parisdreamtime art blog Paris — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:09:37 +0000

Eventually I got around sending those Paris Souvenirs out today, to Elizabeth, Christina and Mirela (and an additional little thing to Cris in Oregon because I knew she already wanted to win this in last years giveaway:). Debra hasn’t “claimed” her’s yet, I hope she’ll send me her address soon….

This weekend I plan to visit an exhibition in the Musée d’Art Moderne, I’ll talk about that next week. In the meantime I have other nice topics waiting for me to be processed into a watercolor painting, a blogpost and words:), for instance pictures of Luxembourg, pictures of a yardsale “vide-grenier”in the 5th arrondissement, pictures of famous “Berthillon” icecream boxes….

For now, here a little illustration of Parisians and their dogs, you know, dogs are ubiquitous in this city and so is their poop! When I put the name of the street in the painting, “Rue de Rivoli” and then filled it out with blue, the blue deleted part of the R from rue (=street) so that it read Pue de Paris which you could translate with: stink of Paris, but I shouldn’t say this here cause sometimes there are also nice dogowners who remove the unwanted item immediately and with grace…Have a wonderful Weekend!

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