Where I've been, where I'm going, where I hope to go

La Rochelle
Nantes
Lorient

Brussels
Rotterdam
Amsterdam
Berlin

Lithuania
Estonia
Finland
UK
Spain


Camera is ruined from sand of St Malo. But Justin's got an iPhone and there's digital cameras to be borrowed. I'm thinking of getting a disposible point n shoot.

show/artist

photo by louis atuonah

Little Update

I've seen and done many amazing things the past two months. I traveled to Provence and Burgandy with my Parents, passed a week contemplating the ocean horizon in Croatia (and getting tanned), practiced my French for a week in the countryside outside of Agen, and explored the coast of Normandy and Brittany with an adventurous friend. My time in Paris is nearly over, so I am seeing and experiencing as much of the city that I can, hosting travelers and sharing my love of the city with them.

I have been drawing constantly, looking around me and scheming for future painting projects.

digital doodles

some josh smith ......

I can just look at anything and paint it. Maybe not perfectly, but can do it. I can make a really good painting. Last year, I started making paintings of fish that way. I thought it would he nice to have a big painting on the wall of a fish jumping. That is exciting. It makes you wonder why it is there. It makes you proud of seeing it. There's a stupidity to it-and then again, it's nature. Courbet made a career out of that.
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I recently found a leaf, which I've been working with. I was in Pennsylvania, and I picked up this leaf and thought, "This will be easy to paint." I always try to paint things that are easy to paint. I never want to get hung up on trying to render something.

yves

Yesterday night, Wednesday, we went into an abstract café… the abstractionists were there. They are easy to recognize because they give off an atmosphere of abstract painting, plus you see their paintings in their eyes. Maybe I’m delirious, but I have the impression I see things like that. In any event, we sat down with themÉ. Then we began speaking of the book Yves Peintures. Later, I went to get it from the car and I laid it down on the table. At the very first few pages the abstractionists’ eyes began to change. Their eyes lit up and in the depths, pure, beautiful single colors appeared.

women

Maureen Gallace

Francesca DiMatteo

Kristen Schiele

Josephine Halvorson