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.
I’m Carol Gillott, an artist living in Paris. Every month I send out beautifully illustrated letters 💌that capture the true Parisian experience.☕️ If you’d like to support my work, you can buy me a KO-FI here ☕️ ❤️ Thank you so much! 🍦
Applause! LOL all trains should be fitted for aquarellistes' needs.
ReplyDeleteIt amazes me how you bring your Ipad pics to such life!.
Bonne chance avec le concours!
Ha ha my mess goes with me everywhere I go 😄
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So much fun trains and ice cream!
ReplyDeleteNothing sounds better! Your watercolors look amazing!
Love this!!!!!
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I still tell people about you setting up your studio in hotel bathrooms...on the coast of Maine for one...It is your passion to paint as often as you can!
ReplyDeleteDoes the train vibration get in the way? Seems not to!
Still working on the day w DD...will write...
Ice cream: In the old days I could have eaten it (no, perhaps I DID eat it) as in that song: "Sugar in the morning, sugar in the evening, sugar at suppertime..."
Everything about it is enticing...especially when one is a summer tourist!
What a concept: contests for train tickets!
The trains are very smooth. i never noticed really..
DeleteI used to design shoes on the way to factories in Spain the back of cars...maybe where it all started. Its definitely better if I am not sharing a table. Yesterdays passenger was tapping on the table and pulling the window shad down when I left my seat Grrrr
I do love to brainstorm sketch in the Metro.
I Get my best ideas there and on buses. No distractions like the refrigerator! 😄
Good luck with the competition! I’m very impressed how you paint on the train. Love the ice cream map as I love ice cream too. Enjoy the end of summer!
ReplyDeleteSo glad to hear Kirra 🍦🍦🍦
DeleteThis has been a summer of Champagne, ice cream and trains!
Who knew? 🍦🍾🥂
Love that you paint on trains & sketch on busses. Trains and Ice Cream sounds like the title of a good book. Bear looks like a great helper, or is he just back there eating ice cream?
ReplyDeleteSometimes Bear comes along for the ride...
DeleteI wish he had eaten the ice cream instead of me 😳🍦😳🍦🐻
There is nothing better than French Ice Cream......
ReplyDeleteI enjoy receiving paris breakfast and.....so does my daughter, a French Professor at the University.
Thanks for your dedication bringing France to us!
Thanks for subscribing Janine ❤️
DeleteAs always magnificent.
ReplyDeleteDo take good care of yourself as you take one for the team with all the ice cream eating!
Oh my, there is great joy here in every one of these lovely pieces! It's fun to see your images come to life in a different medium. All this ice cream talk is reminding me it's time to take a walk to the freezer!
ReplyDeleteFound your adorable Bear! Oh yeah? Inside the ice cream cart, eh?
ReplyDeleteEvery time I look at the way you paint children...I feel like a tsunami of tenderness inside me......
Thanks, Carol.