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"Memoir de Paris-France", oil. This large painting took over a year and a half to finish. It is memories of the favorite places visited in Paris and the surrounding area, during the last two trips there. Eiffel Tower, and then clockwise…Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Paris, Le Chateau-Versailles, L' Opera, Arc de Triumph and Champs Elysees, La Place Vendome, and Statue equestre de Louis XIV. To portrait buildings in detail with accuracy, you must study with some diligence the architect's design. I was fascinated to discover the Tower to be made up of hundreds of X's. Personally, the most challenging part was finding the courage to follow the picture in my head, which determined that I 'cloud' over a year's worth of detailed work on the Tower's upper portion. And, no, we never went to the very, very top.
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