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Showing posts with label Paris grey skies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paris grey skies. Show all posts

Paris Bouleverse


 Sometimes in Paris things go completement bouleverse/upside down or do a complete reversal on you like the weather. It was gris gris gris/Paris grey skies yesterday.

 Yesterday sand was dumped on the banks of the Seine at Pont Marie. Today you can swim at Paris Plage and the sun is out.
WOW

 By 7PM yesterday the Paris soleil/sun decided to come out

 In full blast.

 It lasted till 10 PM!

 A very welcome reversal indeed.
THE COLOR OF CITIES is a fav book because it explains why we love Paris or any extraordinary city. For reasons often overlooked like longitude, angles of light, shadow shapes.
Paris' low-contrast light is softer, more atmospheric, more moody  the best for still life painting thanks to overcast grey skies. Author Lois Swirnoff conveys a powerful message about the angle-of-light's impact upon regional colors, design and materials.

 The #70 bus dropped me at Hotel de Ville, last stop.
The square was completement plein/full of people picnicing, drinking beer, waiting for a pop concert to begin.
Who knew?

 Yesterday I bought this pretty green dessert with plans to paint it.

When I got home I found my pretty dessert had gone completement bouleverse on me.
c'est la vie.
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Color in Paris


 Oh the weather outside...
 Is frightful.
Well it has been in Paris for the past week, rain, rain, rain and going forward more rain.
 Is that why there are so many lashings of color scattered about like these colorful ballards near a kid's playground on rue du Bac?
 Colorful chaises sit out cheering one on as you wait for the #96 bus in the Marais. Merci chaises!
 Wildly colored legs I don't know where..?
 Bright plastic bagues/rings in the 11th.
 Same shop somewhere on rue Oberkamph had this Fab bracelet.
 Fauchon can be depended upon for serious lashings of color.to brighten Paris grey days.
 Colored dots galore.
Why not wear them if your feeling bleu?
 Paris grey/gris skies require au nom de la Rose for uplifting bien sur.
 A hopeful shop window in the upper Marais.
 I fell in love with this primary-colored kid's book, Couleurs Du Jour by Kveta Pacovska.
 It's a 2 1/2"  accordian thick book that opens both back and front = tons to look at and not a word written. Who could resist? I didn't. 
 A very narrow but bright little shop in the 15th.
Go paint Paris any color you want (but gris/grey) with this watch by AKTEO France Espace AKTEO
"A vous de plaire" Champs Elysées
24 rue Marbeuf - 75008.
Hope the weather changes soon!
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