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They gave me a test assignment. Come up with a big group drawing ✍️ they could gift their employees of tons of celebrities drinking Mumm. Can you spot Kate Moss or Naomie? A Seagrams brothers is embracing a big bottle.
*Note everyone is holding their glass by the stem. Never hold a champagne 🥂 glass by the 'bowl'. You must not warm the bubbles.
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I imagined my living room a sea of Champagne jeroboams. Last minute I suggested they print their label design on my watercolor paper. I ended up with neat stacks of printed Champagne labels instead.
One of the perks? I stayed at the Mumm mansion in Reims.
The Champagne countryside is magnificent. There's a new fast TGV from Paris that takes 45 minutes. Don't miss it.
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Just me & a giant refrigerator full of Champagne jeroboams.
They said,"Do help yourself"
🥂🍾
Someone popped in with petit dejeuner most mornings. The rest of the time I communed and painted grapevines. They still use straw panier/baskets 🧺 to pick the grapes in Champagne.
There's a lot of partying in the Champagne Biz. Servers dress up as old-fashioned cellar men. Their job is to turn resting Champagne bottles🍾
Very fun to draw.
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Below I’m partying at Chelsea Arts Club Belle Epoch Ball at London's Albert Hall. We had to dress up as characters from Degas/Lautrec paintings. I went as a Degas dancer🩰
Roger, the club concierge, said,
"If you add one more ribbon 🎀 to that outfit, you'll look like a dog’s 🐶 dinner."
Don't you love the Brits. Pass the Bolly🍾Sweetie Darling
"If you add one more ribbon 🎀 to that outfit, you'll look like a dog’s 🐶 dinner."
Don't you love the Brits. Pass the Bolly🍾Sweetie Darling