Yesterday, Rain, the bus, Picasso - Paul Smith, Redon

Yesterday it rained like hell all night

And most of the morning. We had tons of rain all week. It’s raining right now…If it was the Olympics…uh oh 😱

Paris Thumbnails

Redon inspired still life, 9" x 11"

 

There were a lot of requests to paint yesterday's Redon setup, so I did.

First to watercolor match the ribbon and boxes

Surprise! A 5-month old framboise macaron lurks within one of the boxes.

Used in another setup. No, I did not eat the macaron...yet.

Would you?

Were the rununculas chosen because of the Redon exhibit?

The pink box was sighted not so far from the Grand Palais expo...

I wanted to start off doing thumbnails like Dewey did in Maine

David paints his thumbnails on typing paper(!) so I tried it out

Then just plain old tracing paper

Then thumbnails on watercolor paper but these are not simple enough

But I forgot to look at the thumbnails I did that day until after the fact. A la prochaine/next time. If you're going to paint pink, pink, pink

You need to eat a lot of watermelon! What shall I paint next PBers?

BONJOUR Paris THUMBNAILS!
 

Odilon Redon Prince du Reve 1840 - 1916

If you can manage to attend a new exhibit the day it opens, you're always ahead of the game.

I raced to the new Odilon Redon expo at the Grand Palais the day I was catching the overnight train to Venice.
It's not so crowded the first day - people are waiting for the reviews.

The entry floor was full of Redon's dark, moody etchings and chalk drawings.

But downstairs was full on technicolor Redon.

 His mysterious fleurs et tetes/heads.

Redon's mastery of pastel is right up there with Degas.

One of my favorite Redons - this seashell. It's a shock to see a painting in the flesh when you've seen too many reproductions.

There were sheets and sheets of floral drawings.
 

 This floral embroidered chair.

Redon's bouquets are delicieux.

You leave a Redon exhibit in a trance-like state.

Outside Redon fleurs rouges at the Grand Palais.

Redon heads along the Champs-Elysees.

This barquette of fig, apricot, tomate cerise looks like edible flowers. 

I went home and set up my own 'Redon' - yet to be painted.

Perhaps today?

BONJOUR REDON!