BEGINNING THE CREATIVE CREATION BOOKS

Martha and I spent 2 Sunday morning's at L'Eglise Reformee du Marais, where we taught accordion collage books inspired by the Creation account in Genesis 1. 

We worked with a great group of kids in grades 1 to 5, creating collaged pictures on simple accordion books with rubber stamped images, painted papers, scissors and glue sticks.

The top photo shows a corner of our classroom with students and class helpers busy creating. 

The bottom two photos show 2 students happy and thoughtfully engaged in beginning the creative process.

The story of creating the Creation accordion books...to be continued.....

INSPIRED AT THE LOUVRE

Actually the inspiration was in the Louvre's museum shops. Yes, plural! 3 glorious shops with great stuff! The book section of the largest shop was really great! What a place to be inspired!!

photo 1 (shot by Martha)

Pyramid w/escalator taking you downstairs to Louvre entrance and great hall with 1st class Museum shops. 

photo 2 ( shot by Martha)

Museum shop window with Mona Lisa books. Her portrait, the museum's pride and joy, without a doubt!

photo 3 

I loved the image on the Couleurs book cover. It reminded me of my Moroccan aerial dye-vat series. 

The circles in this case were painted on squares of newsprint.  Very interesting. I might play with that idea in the studio.

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SNAPPING THE BUCKET LIST

Martha and I both had places on our Paris "love to see" bucket list.

I was hoping to see the little sailboats at the Luxembourg Gardens. There's Martha snapping the guy who rents those sailboats.  


Of the museums I wanted to visit, was the Musée d'Orsay. We did and afterward here's Martha snapping the 'locks' on one of the bridges by the D'Orsay. 

On Martha's list was seeing Jim Morisson's grave at the Pere Lachaise Cemetery. We found it after quite a bit of searching. Here's Martha snapping graveside. 

MARTHA SNAPPING PARIS no.1

Martha snapped over a 1000 photos of our trip to Paris. 

But I caught a couple of her snapping away! 

top: 

Capturing the beauty of the gardens leading to the Louvre. 

middle:

Martha snapping the young artists  creating collaged books in our class at L'Eglise Reformee du Marais near the Bastille. 

bottom:

Photographing artists at the monthly gathering of La Fonderie, meeting in the crypt at  L'Eglise Reformee du Marais.

MEETING PARIS no.2

People and Places.  

Our week was filled with both.

top: Approaching the Louvre on day 1. (Great museum shops!)

lower: Meeting people in the arts at their first gathering of the fall season - on evening 3.  Our friend Al, cutting himself a piece of sausage.

More to say about these experiences in future posts.

MARTHA, MODIGLIANI & MARGE IN PARIS

Martha and I are just back from Paris. There's Martha with a Modigliani at Musée de l'Orangerie and moi at Jardin du Luxembourg.  I finally got to see the little sailboats in person.  Click for - what sailboats? Coming: Stories of being inspired and inspiring others - all part of the Creative Process in Paris.

BACK FROM MODERN POSTCARD

250 new postcards arrived today.

They'll be going into my suitcase with a lot of other art stuff.

It's looking like I'll need the big suitcase.

I was hoping to avoid that!

Click here to see earlier post telling about these cards.

ANOTHER STORY BOOK TO BLURB

7 years old and about to have another story book published by Blurb: Kittykee and the Big Machine. (click for process).That's my grandson Zach! This is his 4th book in the Kittykee series! Front and back covers pictured.

My 5 yr old grand-daughter, Hailey, has a 2nd book ready for us to publish. We'll work on it after I get back. Meanwhile the kids in France will love her first book, KittyKee, Wolf and Friends (click to see process) Book cover pictured.

I'll be taking the 5 story books, by our grandkids, on the trip.

I look forward to taking pictures of the kids in Paris looking at Zach and Hailey's books.

Once I have all 5 books together and ready to go into my suitcase, I'll share them on the blog.

OFF TO MODERN POSTCARD

We sent the postcard files off to Modern Postcard this morning.

Here's the front and the back of the 4x4 card.

We'll be giving this card out to our new friends in France.

The text on the back of the card was put on a paled closeup of the collage's sky.

Sun Showered Fields was a collage in the Currents series.

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