The other day I was walking through the 2nd Arrondissement in Paris with two friends, taking pictures for THE DOOR QUEENS PROJECT which Kim at Creative Influences originated. This door caught my special attention. I was tempted to wring the bell (you can see there is one, at the left side) to see what happens. [...]
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NEWS: NEW WEBSITE IS UP AND RUNNING – ANDREA HUPKE DE PALACIO – painter, illustrator, textile artist – AM BUSY WITH LAST PREPARATIONS FOR TONIGHT’S OPENING OF OUR SHOW – WILL BE BACK WITH NEWS AS SOON AS I CAN – HAVE A GREAT WEDNESDAY – LOVE – ANDREA
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First thing we did on Saturday morning was going to the Market, to get some fresh food. I took my camera to take pictures of the snow and the market for you. The market is a 15 minute walk away and I always take my bagpack with me cause I don’t like those “Rollsters”, as [...]
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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? ©estandrea 2010 purchase information: you can [...]
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click on image to enlarge it Yard sale means “vide grenier” in French, which means “empty the attic”:) There are always still lifes to discover when you visit yard sales. All those objects people have loved for a time before getting too used the them. When you get too used to an object, you have [...]
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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 [...]
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Look out of my studio window into the vis-à-vis neighbor’s flat… on 30 x 40 Canson Watercolour paper Copyright ©estandrea – All rights reserved
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Night-view out of my studio window into the vis-à-vis neighbor’s flat, including the reflection of the globe-lamp in our bedroom, painted under influence of the Raoul Dufy exhibition I went to see yesterday… Copyright ©estandrea – All rights reserved on 30 x 40 (11.8 x 15.7″) Canson Watercolour paper click on the image to [...]
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Yesterday I visited my little “square de Tolstoi” again and draw the bust of Tolstoi, which I love to contemplate. It was created by the Armenian Artist Akop Gurdjan (1886 – 1948) , whom I never heard of before. I love the way Tolstoi’s head is emerging from the stone. Long hair like an inversed [...]
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Every morning I get some exercise in the fresh air, walking half an hour and then stretching, in this little mini-park called Square Tolstoï. On Sunday, I went there with my sketchbook, not to exercise but to draw one of those lamp-posts I love. The perspective is somehow confusing… I have trouble with perspective. But [...]
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