Late Bloomer, Printemps letter

 

I’ve been MIA the past 2 weeks with a deep immersion in the Spring letter art. This is a work in progress story.

Of painting Paris’ blossoming trees

Cherry blossoms, magnolias, you name it.

Spring took its time this year. Surprising us early, than running away and throwing us back into winter wetness and gloom.

From afar and closeup the trees kept on blossoming.

I wanted to draw these opening flowers…

My source of inspiration: Van Gogh’s beautiful ‘Blossoming Almond branch in a glass’, painted in Arles in 1888 when the fruit trees were flowering. Vincent wrote his brother Theo, "Down here it is freezing hard and there is still snow in the countryside," and he has "two small studies of an almond-tree branch already in flower in spite of it." The two studies are Blossoming Almond Branch in a Glass and Blossoming Almond Branch in a Glass with a Book.

More inspiration.

Finding cherry blossom branches in Paris fleuriste shops was impossible. But we found them in a shop about to close for the night in Lyon! You must go to Lyon for flowering branches.

“Squint!” they tell you in art school.

I’ve been squinting for weeks.

I decided to take Vincent’s Almond branch to Angelina..quelle disastre 😮

Bear suggested we go to Angelina ourselves for authenticity.

The line for afternoon tea was long. We grabbed macarons and ran.

Van Gogh rescued us out with his simplified line rendering 

of Hiroshige’s Plum blossoms.

Voila 

Your name can be on it!

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