CESTANDREA ART BLOG- PARIS / Paintings Illustrations and Textile Art

OUPS - WHERE IS ANDREA?

2008-07-24T22:47:00.006+02:00

FREE FALLING INTO HOLIDAY TIME!

Sorry my dear friends if I haven't got the time to come and visit you for some time. I have been postponing things so the things I should have done a month ago, I all had to do them the last couple of days.

AND NOW IT IS TIME TO BREATH SOME AIR!

I'll be in Germany first, and, around end of August, in Slovakia. Talk to you here again on August 31st. With many new suprises.

Probably I won't be able to blog, but I will write and receive e-mails, so we can stay in touch!

LOVE

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OUPS? WHERE HAS ANDREA LANDED?

SNEAK PREVIEW - Seven Ancestorspirits

2008-07-21T10:44:00.009+02:00

Monday, July 21st, 2008 - Today I give you a SNEAK PREVIEW on the exhibition I'll have in Germany in November 2008.

SEVEN ANCESTORSPIRITS, on 11.8x11.8 canvas, acrylic paint and paste, fabric collage and textile paint, with a final special varnish which protects and enhance the colours.

These paintings have "grown" with time, now they are finished, completed, after a very long gestation period, I may call this, the spirits are here, they look at us and we at them. Some are clearly visible, others aren't. Don't be afraid, these are friendly ghosts who timetravelled to be with us:)

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Metroheads - The Tatoo-Girl

2008-07-18T09:54:00.003+02:00

Today is Friday, the day we all love, who doesn't love Fridays?

The Girl with the Tatoos - I love her tatoos, two octopus's tentacles, in green and blue, and I just love the way she is IN her book. As I watch her, she smiles, then the smile drops, then she smiles again, and here, suddenly she laughs a low laugh, and oh....now her expression changes from compassionate to very serious, the storyline must take a dramatic turn in this very moment....

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Metroheads - Quickies and Woman with Cane

2008-07-17T08:28:00.004+02:00

The scribbled words are a reminder, the whole page is "scribbling". Like doodling, only
a little more precise. Quickly, hurry, or they will be gone.... I let you read your stories in here,
today I'm too lazy to look into their heads...

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NEWS: PROBLEMS? CALL MISS DOODLE!

Metroheads - Women with coloured background and child studies

2008-07-16T07:44:00.004+02:00

I wanted to know what happens, if I do it the other way round: put colour in the background and leave the portraits as they are.. it gives a very graphical touch to these Metroheads, I like it how the background colour brings forward the lines of the drawing...

The woman with the curly hair - she has gone away, into the book, is shaking hands with the protagonist, wonders how he/she will get out of the mess...

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The woman with the baseball cap - pensive, or just tired, she has opened the door to her imagination and looks at this wonderful countryside, beautiful with flower meadows and a little creek, willows and horses and cows grazing....

This is a peek into my sketchbook of child studies... Copyright ©estandrea - All rights reserved

Miss Doodle's Clothes

Monochrome study, my beautiful stepdaughter and sneakers

2008-07-15T10:42:00.004+02:00

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MISS DOODLE AND THE ABANDONED WATERMELON/ missdoodlesday.blogspot.com

Metroheads - The guy with the two glasses and the one with soft hair

2008-07-10T10:42:00.004+02:00

The guy with the two glasses, one on his head and one on his nose - A Latin American gentlement (I hear him speak Spanish on the cellphone) reading his newspaper. He sits directly in front of me, it is very rare that I sketch people from such a close range, and I think I make it depend on the kind of AURA which is around people. Here I feel such a calm being, poised and concentrated, I guess he knows what I am doing but he tolerates it in a happy way. I love his attitude. I can study him without being a voyeur. I observe and he lets himself be observed. He is giving me something precious here.

The man with the oh so soft looking hair - I experimented some other technique, I added the hair in photoshop, after heaving watercoloured the person. I'm not so fond of it, it is not a technique I'll use, I prefer sticking to my watercolours. Interesting, though. The man's shirt originally was black and silvergrey but I saw it lemongreen:)

Have a wonderful day!

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Metroheads - Young blond man (upset), and man reading a newspaper

2008-07-08T09:09:00.008+02:00

MY DEAR BLOGREADERS/ I love to correspond with you, sometimes it will take a day or so because time is so measured, but I'll always try to answer or comment YOUR comments. So, if you like this kind of communication, don't hesitate to pop in from time to time into the older posts....
love you all (and your feet too, I wish I could draw them all:)

More faces from my daily trip on the Parisian Métro. There is no time for details here, cause these two leave after a few stops, I have to quickly catch the expression .

The young and very blond man - He has a handsome face, but he looks so upset. I'm not sure he is aware of this expression we all see on his face. He stares at an imaginary enemy? His father, or his spouse? Or his boss?

The man with his head bent over his newspaper - I already showed you his portrait but not my thoughts about him. I love the roundness of his skull, and the round forehead. He permits me to practise drawing a head from a different angle.
He carries a red bag with very long handles and looks up from time to time to check the station, I can see that he has a very friendly face, and a "ready-to-smile" mouth:)

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Happy Feet Day to you my friends

2008-07-07T14:26:00.001+02:00

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Metroheads: Oldfashioned coiffure and Woman in red reading

2008-07-04T07:00:00.003+02:00

Today it is Friday, July 4th, happy July 4th to all my American friends, today you get two Metroheads:)

The blond woman with the red-orange top reading her newspaper - not everyone is trapped by his cell phone, there are lots of people who read, books or Newspapers. You have a lot of free Newspapers on the Metro, there are dispensers everywhere. People leave them on the seats or throw them away once they read them.

The woman with the oldfashioned coiffure - I was fascinated by this hairdo, so unusual in fancy Paris. When I was little and we had those hot summers, my mother made me a hairdress almost like that, with a sort of fluffy thick brown plastic ring, you had to pull the hair through the whole and then I have no idea how she fixed the hair around the ring. But it looked like a DONUT, (I'm having so much fun here:)

This one though is different, there isn't a whole in it and it doesn't look like a Donut, it looks like ... I don't know... what do you think?

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NEWS: HOMAGE TO ANDY WARHOL N°6: MISS DOODLES BASICS

Metroheads - Women with mobile phone

2008-07-03T07:00:00.001+02:00

People more and more look like this on the metro. Staring at their mobile phone, sometimes for a very long time. Or they talk loudly into their beloved device.

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MISS DOODLE'S BREAK

Metroheads - Close your eyes or read the book

2008-07-02T09:59:00.008+02:00

Wednesday, July 2nd already! Wow, time flies.

The woman with the black satin hair circlet - I listen to her thoughts: "If I close my eyes just a minute those headaches will go away I should have taken an aspirine before leaving but I was late anyway what if the boss asks me to be present during the meeting this morning I have had enough of these problems and wish I could find a better job what keeps me there I don't know but perhaps the time isn't right cause we have this mortgage we can't get rid of cause there are so many things to pay day-to-day oh I forgot to shut the window in the living room I hope there won't be a thunderstorm and careful now cause I get off at the next stop....."

The dark-haired man with the serene expression - Is he reading about Buddha, or does he read about the madman Kalil Gibran talked about (and our writer friend Hopper), or does he read about the life of Gandi, at least his expression suggests something philosophical.

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NEWS: MISS DOODLE DISCIPLE OF POP ART/ CLICK HERE

Metroheads - Woman with Chips

2008-07-01T09:51:00.006+02:00

Thursday, Chipsday?

The woman with the chipsbag - she munches her chips, seems disinterested in what is going on around her, doesn't look at the gentleman with his neat suit and shining shoes (no time to draw these), she stares out of the window, weary. I can imagine her happy, with a wonderful smile on her face, eyes sparkling and wide open, kissing her children, her husband, her mom, her dad, her friends.

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NEWS:

Miss Doodle and the Madman

Metroheads - Woman with ticket and scarf

2008-06-30T07:00:00.002+02:00

Summer and circumstances are driving me away from the computer. I'm glad about it cause I give my eyes a break and my mind too, but at the same time I'm feeling a bit as if I abondoned my friends here in Blogland.

Okay so now it is Monday, and I'm back again with another Metrohead for you only!

The little woman with the sunglasses, the scarf and the Pass Navigo - it doesn't rain and it doesn't snow, she is not blind and it is very very hot here in the metro-car. Perhaps she just likes those dark sunglasses, scarfs and coats. The Pass Navigo is an electronic metro ticket, it has your picture and name on it, you put it into a machine, you choose you ticket (monthly, weekly), you put in your credit card and the code and the Pass Navigo is charged. When you hold it over a special electronical reader which is integrated in the gate, you hear a BEEEEP, and the gate opens (most times you have to push against rotating aluminium bars).

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Miss Doodle's secretary sketching herself

The Blotch Family - Mama Gertrud Bear

2008-06-26T07:00:00.001+02:00

Mother Gertrud Bear: she is beckoning you to come and see what's in her basket:)

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NEWS.....NEWS.....NEWS

Miss Doodle's hurdle race

Metroheads - Mini Dreadlocks and a little boy

2008-06-25T11:36:00.004+02:00

Still practising dreadlocks:)

The little guy with the big brown eyes - He is with his mother and two brothers, he eats a slice of bred but sometimes he stops and just looks ahead with dreamy big eyes. Then he notices that I'm watching him, and his expression becomes troubled. Now HE watches Me. I show him the drawing. He looks at me, quizzically, then at his mother. Doesn't know what to think of me and my Moleskine. The mother just smiles at me. I have to pack my things because the next stop is mine.

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NEWS:

MISS DOODLE: "Homage to Andy Warhol N° 4"

Metroheads - Sweet Youth, Young girl and Young man

2008-06-24T06:00:00.006+02:00

NEWS:

AT MISS DOODLE's TODAY - "HOMAGE TO A.W. N°3"

The girl with the shining black hair and the delicate features - she looks out of the window even when we pass through the tunnel and she probably only sees the black walls. As if she would like to renew this sweet old dream of romance. Her bagpack is the shield protecting her from the other people...

The young man with the smooth skin and innocent looking eyes - He is fully concentrated on deciphering a message on his cell phone, (or does he play? ) eyes locked on the mini-screen, unaware of the many things going on around him. From time to time when we roll into a station, he looks up at the big blue signs outside to make sure he hasn't missed his stop...

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Metroheads - Man, head bent, reading

2008-06-22T23:58:00.003+02:00

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Metroheads - Those I Would Have Loved To Spend More Time With

2008-06-22T06:00:00.003+02:00

The young man with the strong jawline - he is very handsome and looks as if he didn't get up on time this morning, with tousled hair and sleep in the corner of his beautiful eyes.
I don't know yet that I'll only have seconds, but I hurry the pen along the paper, following my eyes, knowing that he can get up and away any time now...

The two middle-aged men , one gnawing at his lower lip while reading a newspaper, the other one concentrated on his book - another very quick encounter, I get the outlines of the faces, the hand, twisted though, the eyes or the glasses in front of them, the bend of the shirt collar...

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NEWS
Miss Doodle revisits Pop Art - Homage to A.W. N°2

Metroheads: Relaxed Attention and Blankness

2008-06-20T07:00:00.004+02:00

Ok, back to Business. Thursday's Metroheads for you only!

The young girl with the baseball-cap - She listens attentively to her girlfriend who is talking her head off, probably narrating a fascinating love drama, on a level with Romeo and Juliet...Or is it the story about Captaine Ahab's revenge on Moby Dick?

The woman with the blankness on her face - Can I make up a story about what she may be thinking or is there too much blankness here? Perhaps she is meditating, thinking of empty space as opposite to crowded metro. Or does she visualize a field with thousand red poppies?

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they live their lives
telling their unique stories
everyday and on every path
each warm, worthy and wise
.
they're with me
for but a short while
but their souls
flow in my heart
like another Nile..
(a poem by Human Being)

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NEWS:
Miss Doodle - Revisiting Pop Art!

Peonies and a special day for Miss Doodle and her secretary!

2008-06-17T07:30:00.007+02:00

My dear blogfriends, today I have something very special to share with you.

First of all this painting of the "famous":) peonies, you remember, those peonies I photographed in the sun in my studio some days ago. One "simple" flower and several "double" flowers. Those of you who are good observers will notice that there are alreay some leafs missing...

Watercolour, size 30 x 40 cm (11.8" x 15.7")

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NEWS:

Miss Doodle - SURPRISE SURPRISE - FIRST PUBLICATION OF A MISS DOODLE ILLUSTRATION IN AN INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC ART MAGAZINE - read all about it

Metroheads - Dreadlocks and yellow trenchcoat

2008-06-16T07:32:00.004+02:00

Hello hello, it's Monday morning, time to face the rest of the world:)

The young men with the perfect dreadlocks - He reads a book and is so concentrated that I have enough time to draw his hair, or better to find out how best to draw dreadlocks:) I only see his face when he gets off the metro car five minutes later, he is a beautiful man. I'm happy that I had time to study at least the back of his head:)

The oh so sad looking woman with the gold necklace and the yellow trenchcoat - even the colour yellow does not brighten her expression. What is her burden, is her life full of haunting memories? She looks wealthy and immensely unhappy.

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News

Miss Doodle - The secretary's sketchbook: Inspiration

The Blotch Family - Papa Kurt Rabbit

2008-06-14T19:40:00.002+02:00

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News:

Miss Doodle / Parrots

Metroheads - Pink and Black Power

2008-06-13T11:01:00.002+02:00

It's Friday, and we need something strong to begin with.

The Lady in pink , what is she thinking, she looks bored, or concerned? Is it because she doesn't know whether she should change her life now or later, or is she thinking about tonight's dinner?

The Lady in black, she just has finished a very animated phone-conversation and is now concentrating on what has been said. It sounded like an argument, was she having a fight with her mother about how not to spoil the kid and let him do everything he wants to?

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NEWS: Miss Doodle / the secretary's sketchbook

The Blotch Family - Princess Barefoot

2008-06-12T07:13:00.001+02:00

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