November Paris Opera Letter

 

While some of you will be stuffing your turkeys 🦃  for tomorrow’s Thanksgiving dinner, I’ll be stuffing envelopes 💌 with the New November Advent Letter💌

I’ve been thinking about the November Advent letter all month and going round Paris doing research.

I thought it would be the Dior Galerie with its tiny colorful miniatures, but the prospect of drawing that Dior building was daunting. 

Then I found an enlarged drawing of Opera Garnier made when I took the Opera tour in 2017. 

Last week I went back to Opera Garnier to refresh my memory. 

I visited their lovely gift shop. Always a treat.

Repetto’s dance shop is nearby.

In 2018 Bonnie and Rob took me to a delightful performance of the Kiev NutCracker Suite Ballet 🩰

et voila. Enough inspiration. Let the sketching ✏️begin! 

A little aside…did you ever dance in the Nutcracker Suite as a kiddie? I was one of the flowers 🌸 in The Waltz of the Flowers, age 6 in a kindergarten performance. I have absolutely no memory of this experience😊 

I saw these cute holiday Teddy Bears from Hotel de l’Ange, Colmar🐻 

Bears 🐻 will always save the day. 

So much easier to draw ✏️ then ballerinas 🩰 

I started drawing from the ground up…I was terrified how I would pull off the Nutcracker ballet dancers at the top. 

Back to Google for research 🙏 

I thought it would be dancing Bears 🐻 in toe shoes 🩰 Not a good idea. Done and going into the poste today 🎉📬

ENJOY YOUR THANKSGIVINGS🦃 PBer & EVERYONE ELSE🥂 The new letter is in my Etsy Shop🥂The Nov Paris Map is coming out soon👍

 I’m Carol Gillott, an artist living in Paris. Every month I send out beautifully illustrated letters that capture the true Parisian experience. 

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Xxx❤️Bear 🐻