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Showing posts with label Spoons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spoons. Show all posts
Monday, November 19, 2007
I met Sarah in the JFK waiting lounge enroute to Paris...Sarah has lived in Paris for 20 years and runs acting classes for the French at F.A.C.T.
Sarah invited M. and I to join her for dinner at Chez Clement, a chain all over Paris. You can see they have their menu outside for all to see. YAY!
The thing about Chez Clement that grabbed my attention was not their food (pleasent enough) but their decor...
SPOONS everywhere at Chez Clement!
Why they don't call this chain Chez Cuillère or Chez du Cuillères or Les Cuillères is something I have yet to figure out..?
Of course there are a ton of copper pots hanging all over - so some might insist on calling it, Chez Pot de Cuivre...
More pot de cuivre hanging at the entrance... There must be a M. Clement somewhere who would take exception to my renaming his restaurant...
They proudly announce on the vitrines that their mashed potatoes are home-made!
Pot de cuivre door handles!
Step inside and you are greeted by an ARDOISE! announcing the special of the day. M. & I got the special which included dessert!
MORE SPOONS! I love throwing a spoon into a watercolor...
Spoons add direction and dimension etc to a picture...
I was in love with this restaurant...
M. and Sarah chastised me to stop taking pictures and EAT!
We shared this dessert of profiteroles...
Our spoons really went to town on this one.Very YUM!
Monday, July 30, 2007
I used to collect airline silverware..Didn't everyone?
Didn't you?
AirFrance still makes a very nice travel spoon...I've moved on to cafe spoons, even though I don't drink much coffee.
These ink spoon sketches by Wayne Thiebaud are so casual and easy looking.
Spoons are a natural in still life paintings.They act as vectors or arrows and they add rhythm and movement to a watercolor.
Last week JoyfulArtist Jan wrote me about
Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen's Spoonbridge and Cherry
sculpture in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden.
This spoon is 29 ft. 6 in. x 51 ft. 6 in. x 13 ft. 6 in.!!!
This spoon is my Mecca - I have to see this!
Spoons, as I mentioned before add shine and maybe a touch of whimsey.
And they hold things nicely.
The master spoon painter is Chardin.
Really The MASTER STILL LIFE painter.
This cup is so inviting and everyday and yet so painterly. You would never mistake if for a photo.
There's a terrific collection of Chardins grouped together at the Louvre.
Another "Mecca" I must visit again...
Alison was saying that spoons are hard to paint..
Not really - spoons have anatomy just like the figure.
There's the bowl or head of the spoon. Then the neck and then the tip or tail of the spoon.
Each influences the other.
But SPOONS are eating utensils and they've been around for ages - since Paleolithic times.
Shells, certainly clam shells were used as spoons, as well as containers for holding paint.
What would we do without spoons?
You can't eat ice cream with a fork?
Most still lifes would be much improved if a spoon was present in my opinion...
Spoons are a natural in still life paintings.They act as vectors or arrows and they add rhythm and movement to a watercolor.
Last week JoyfulArtist Jan wrote me about Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen's Spoonbridge and Cherry
sculpture in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden.
This spoon is 29 ft. 6 in. x 51 ft. 6 in. x 13 ft. 6 in.!!!
This spoon is my Mecca - I have to see this!
Spoons, as I mentioned before add shine and maybe a touch of whimsey.And they hold things nicely.
The master spoon painter is Chardin.Really The MASTER STILL LIFE painter.
This cup is so inviting and everyday and yet so painterly. You would never mistake if for a photo.
There's a terrific collection of Chardins grouped together at the Louvre.
Another "Mecca" I must visit again...
Alison was saying that spoons are hard to paint..Not really - spoons have anatomy just like the figure.
There's the bowl or head of the spoon. Then the neck and then the tip or tail of the spoon.
Each influences the other.
But SPOONS are eating utensils and they've been around for ages - since Paleolithic times.Shells, certainly clam shells were used as spoons, as well as containers for holding paint.
What would we do without spoons?
You can't eat ice cream with a fork?
Most still lifes would be much improved if a spoon was present in my opinion...
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