Happy New Year ! But in defeat I need champagne ..

In defeat I need champagne
.. and in victory I deserve it (Churchill)

Zürich night time:

Lover´s Paris

Despite this being Paris, I can't but help listen to Swedish Ale Möller´s Kärleksvals (Lover's Walse).

"Il faudrait éssayer d'étre heureux .. Ne serait-ce que pour donner l'éxample"

Time time time

Travelling

Le Train Bleue at Gare de Lyon à Paris
... the ambiance, and fragrance of better times ...

L'automne à Paris

"Art should comfort the disturbed, and disturb the comfortable" (Banksy)

Spring has come to Paris and I hitch a ride

Storm

Updated and cleaned out for engraving (R)

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Charcoal reveries

 

On my easel today: Reveries in black and white, and as inspired by Kerry Brooks 

That can't eat, can't sleep, 

reach-for-the-stars,

over-the-fence,

World Series,

kind of Stuff !

Charcoal - coal mine .. Work

Testing the technique of the immeasurably talented #caseybaugh

... I still need a lot of practice ... 

"It was a flight, a kind of fleeing, a kind of falling. Falling higher and higher, spinning off the edge of the earth, and beyond the sun and through the vast silent vacum, where there were no burdens, and where everything weighed exactly

nothing"

Oil paintings and reveries

As life wears on

Wears us down

We fight

.. Today by a landscape study in oils

With time ... which is all we have ...

.. too much right now - sohere what's on my easle today (study in the technoque of F Nielly)... You?

Cercle Suedois / Svenska Klubben á Paris

To my surprise the Swedish Club in Paris exhibited my watercolor study of rue de Rivoli - one of two aquarelles I donated to them as part of a bet 👍🏻😎

(Now also on Instagram - as 'Artofzensibility')