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Bleu et Jaune
For days I’ve been thinking. What can I do to help?Then I started thinking about blue and yellow...I’ll paint blue and yellow watercolors. This week I went looking for yellow and blue still life objects. I came away with a pot of 4 bulbs. What better yellow is there than the March daffodil! Listen to the BBC tell myths and history of the daffodil. Tuesday I finally went to l'Agrumiste 🍋 home to bergamots, citrons, pamplemousse and all manner of agrume as the French call them. What a wonderful shop and not far from la Grande Epicerie, at 82 rue de Sevres. Their tiny lemon tartes are delish. And she grated fresh zest on top before boxing. Plus she gave me an extra lemon after I described my project 👏 Finding blue items was more challenging. Sardine cans tend to be blue = la mer Perfume…absolutely, especially for men. Tins of tea! The mini Tour d’Argent tin in cobalt was a treasure find in BHV. I’ve been painting up a storm ⛈ here.
Interesting that Vincent van Gogh was a big fan of blue and yellow 🎨 Ah..to be as brave as Vincent.
I don’t even know what to say…You certainly have poured your heart into doing what you do best to help Ukraine. The beautiful blue & yellow watercolors on Etsy.
ReplyDeleteGod help them.
Beautiful, Carol…beautiful artwork and a beautiful way to help Ukraine! ❤️🇺🇦
ReplyDeleteThe watercolors are beautiful and made more so by the purpose. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteThey’re lovely! So good of you to help Ukraine!
ReplyDeleteLOVE your new creations!
ReplyDeleteI know the feeling💙💛this is wonderful.
ReplyDeleteI am working on having door signs made that are a large sunflower (the flower of Ukraine) and a blue and yellow flag below the sunflower with Glory to Ukraine written on flag.
Feel so hopeless.
Happy Spring to you & Bear.
ReplyDeleteI just love your post today. It’s such a generous, loving offer.
The blue & yellow has always been a love of mine.
I have a lot of daffodils planted last fall so I will look forward to that!
ReplyDeleteLovely post
Thank you so much for doing this.. a daffodil or two? -- but whatever you decide is wonderful... thanks
ReplyDeleteBeautiful colours Carol, thank you, I am originally from the Netherlands! Ilona x
ReplyDeleteOh and ps, thank you for reminding me of one of my earliest and most favourite poems,
Daffodils by William Wordsworth.
Such a wonderful poem Ilona !
ReplyDeleteI wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Carol, what a wonderful and inspired idea. I'm so deeply impressed by your creative response about what you can do to help Ukraine. I'm going onto your Etsy site!
ReplyDeleteThank you Kim ❤️❤️
ReplyDeleteThey went fast! But I will be doing more toute suite
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Hi Carol. I went to your Etsy shop, but I don’t see any of the blue et jaune watercolours. Are they already sold out? Loved what you are doing to support the Ukrainian people❣️
ReplyDeleteThank you Liane for your interest!
ReplyDeleteThey all blew out so fast I couldn’t believe it.
I am making more BLEU ET JAUNE WATERCOLORS toute suite 🎨
So glad you liked them ❤️🌻🇺🇦
Wonderful Carol!♥
ReplyDeleteBeautiful work in my favorite palette (as always) and so very generous. Thank you, Carol.
ReplyDeleteA lovely idea. A friend came for dinner the other night and brought blue and yellow candles for everyone beautiful.
ReplyDeleteVery lovely idea! I see a lot of Blue/Yellow in shop windows and on people’s backs 🇺🇦
ReplyDeleteAll great ideas!! And good for you : encouraging your fans to try to help the Ukrainians!
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