Chocolate Letter Reseach

 

Doing chocolate research 🔬 is one of the easiest things you can do in Paris, especially for the November Paris Letter.

Still I could not discover from Google how many chocolate shops are in Paris! Many ‘10 Bests’ list - oui. How many shops ? - non

Because it was raining cats & dogs last week, I went into the closest chocolate shop at hand for samples to draw. A traitorous act, because Jeff de Bruges is Belgian, but they are sprinkled around town.

The good news is you can walk into any chocolate shop in Paris and buy just ONE chocolate. There are no minimum sales. The concept of the ‘pêché mignon’ or guilty pleasure is well-appreciated. Usually you will be ‘gifted’ 🎁 another chocolate to taste!

You can pick out individually exactly what you want. I wanted different shapes to draw ✏️ I didn’t care about pretty boxes/ballotin. (8 pieces - under 5€).

I had this idea of chocolates swirling up around the Eiffel tower

Then it became a cyclonic swirl of chocolates 🍫 

A lot of time was spent drawing, painting and eating chocolates to get in the right frame of mind 🤔

But where were the chocolates coming from? Why not a cat (Krazy Kat) with an open box of chockies?

No, it had to be a French girl. I looked at Jane Birkin 

She may be British but she is still the iconic ‘French Girl’

Next I needed someone eating a piece of chocolate 🍫 

Of course there had to be a dog in the picture. Thank you Gemma 👏

And a few Paris pigeons.

To be continued