France - Italy - Austria: Diptych travel.

Travelling by train to deliver the diptych 'Laisse tomber' wasn't without challenge, but after leaving at 5:30 am and only one cancelled train the painting arrived in Kitzbuehel, Austria at 23h. Stops along the way: Ventimiglia - Milan - Verona - Brenner - Innsbruck - Worgel - Kitzbuehel. The painting looks great in its new mountain home!

La Poste - Timbres Bloc Le chocolat

Available at La Poste in France...stamps that look, smell and taste of chocolate!!

December Exhibitions - Monaco & Paris

Dec. 10 - 13, 2009. Salon SNBA Carrousel du Louvre. Paris

Pacific Monte-Carlo. Dec. 3, 2009 - Jan. 7, 2010

Dunking Bunnies - Holiday Windows Galeries Lafayette Paris

I love Paris in December, I am lucky that the SNBA salon is on at this time. My favorite window display was the animatronic swimming bunnies dressed in Marc by Marc Jacobs outfits. Who doesn't love champagne, bunnies and a water fountain?!

The photo below was taken from the blog www.eyepreferparis.com
He has many more photos of holiday windows in Paris.

TCM: Grace Kelly Films

Turner Classic Movies will be showing Hitchcock's Rear Window on Monday, Nov. 30. Also of interest for Grace Kelly fans, TCM online screens a clip written and narrated by HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco remembering his mother, Grace Kelly. It is a very touching and revealing commentary. You can watch the video here. Thanks to Bruce Evans for sending me this info!

Grace Kelly - Rear Window

Acrylic on bristol board, 30x40 cm

My second painting of Grace Kelly for my exhibition in Monaco next week, this one from Rear Window. I wanted a still that had a good close up of her face and a background with some depth. Not easy given the limited setting of this film! Lots of long shots, or glamour shots with an uninteresting background. I liked the casual look and colour of the shirt.

Dial M for Murder

Dial M for Murder: Grace Kelly. Acrylic on bristol board 30 x 40 cm