Trains and ice cream letter

This is going to be fast. I'm racing to catch a 6:57am train to Lyon. I've been catching a lot of trains this month. And eating a lot of ice cream - letter research bien sur. Painting on the train is my newest preoccupation. Eating ice cream goes way back. There are some concours/ 🏆 contests going on for € and train trips. My efforts are up on INSTAGRAM. PLEASE, PLEASE visit and like and heart ❤️me. No idea if it will make any difference but its worth a try. Till the end of the August. I moved to Paris thinking I would get to travel other places. I haven't. Not as much as I'd like. I'm almost certain I've already spent the prize €€€ on all these trips, but the good thing is its gotten me out of the studio. One mustn't grumble.

On the train to Reims...getting in the champagne mood.

A Monoprix nature morte! On the train to Fontainebleau.

Same mandarine on the way home from Fontainebleau and visiting pastry chef FREDERIC CASSEL and his new atelier. Story to come.. I was lucky to get this drop-down table. Some trains do not have proper painting surfaces! Why?

Coming home from Saint-Malo immersed in seagulls

Ahhh...no tray table. One makes do. But did the lady across from me have to stretch her legs under my seat? 🙄

A cookie contest from MICHEL ET AUGUSTIN. I have eaten too many of these chocolate chip cookies 🍪 

In pursuit of painting the perfect cookie. You're only supposed to show yourself eating the cookie on the train to win. I'm not known for following rules 

On to the August ice cream letter. Naturally the day I went to shoot (at 8:00am) a big delivery truck was blocking my view..bien sur.

I sketched the letter on the 67 bus to Pigalle last Sunday, going to meet Solli for breakfast at 8:30. Drawing on moving vehicles has become a habit.

My inspiration for the letter was the logo of LE BAC À GLACE -an old fashioned ice cream chariot.

And their divine lettering.

Et voila. Find Bear 🐻 ??

Just a little of all the ice cream i've eaten this month for research. No more ice cream maps PBers. The scale is not happy. You're supposed to LOSE weight in the Summer time bien sur.

Did you know the French consume 6.1 litres of ice cream annually? That probably equals 50 French scoops. The Norwegians eat over 10 liters. And Americans top the charts at 16 annually! 

Look. At last some nice stickon stamps with pretty pictures. I have requested all-Eiffel towers svp. They laughed at me at la Poste, bien sur. 

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