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<\/a><\/p>\na shot from outside our hotel in the latin quarter<\/p>\n
of course we had to squeeze in some time to spot the local graffitti<\/p>\n theres always time to get stupid<\/p>\n day to we went straight to the catacombs, not sure how long these walls of bones and skulls stretch under the paris streets but it seemed like at least a mile<\/p>\n needed some gilato after that<\/p>\n and of course every tourists favorite destination?<\/p>\n then off to bezu via train 1hr 20 minutes ride..<\/p>\n so right down to work<\/p>\n so i arrived in bezu for the 1st grand baz art a bezu festival – basically an exhibition of 25 self taught artists from all over the world<\/p>\n they rolled out the red carpet<\/p>\n and then they told us to get to work hanging the show because local tv would be there in just 2hrs to do some early coverage and interview<\/p>\n left mr yvonne taillandier, this guy painted with picasso, miro, and chagall.<\/p>\n right jean luc – this guy rules he organized the entire festival picked us up at the airport<\/p>\n drove us around paris made all our lodging arrangements.. he was a serious host.. thanks!<\/p>\n a nice piece of yvonne’s work on display<\/p>\n a long shot of my finished setup at the exhibition<\/p>\n people gathering for the awards ceremony<\/p>\n the mayor presented me with the award of most expressive artist. the awards were juried by yvonne, jean luc, the mayor, and<\/p>\n an art critique who writes for artension magazine<\/p>\n after 3 days in bezu it was off to liverdun for the next exhibition.\u00a0 about 10 minutes into the train ride<\/p>\n the security guard caught me drawing, then asked for a self portrait. not my usual thing but i figured<\/p>\n best to stay on the good side of security.<\/p>\n as you can see he was pleased. few…<\/p>\n arrived in liverdun about 2hrs later via high speed rail the about a half hours drive from the station to the castle..<\/p>\n yup castle. we arrived with jeff roland the organizer curator of the space.. we were unfortunatly locked out..<\/p>\n they let us in the next day to begin hanging for the show.<\/p>\n i did a live paint to coincide with the exhibition.\u00a0 painting outside the castle was pretty sureal<\/p>\n its hard enough to believe there are castle let along the imagining painting outside of one and<\/p>\n hen exhibiting inside..<\/p>\n the finished livepaint was purchase for permanent collection for the future museum being built next year in liverdun.<\/p>\n a view from the castle grounds.. it was seriously out of control..<\/p>\n next stop thionville, to meet the king of spaghetti, mr fredric lux, my biggest collector. hes the guy in the middle..the guns are part of his private collection as well – they were created by andre Robillard the guns were being picked up this same afternoon for a retrospective of andres works to be exhibitted at a musem in paris.. the guy on the right is jerzy Ruszczynski, an amazing artist from poland! so this was a great first introduction.. as you might imagine me and fred hit off like bandits right from the start.<\/p>\n this is freds bedroom full of my work.<\/p>\n this is freds living room.. as you can see ive gotten some prime coverage in his house.. i scored a commission job while exhibiting in bezu and fred was nice enough to lend me his garage as a studio while i visited.<\/p>\n he also let me use his kitchen as a studio when it rained the next day..<\/p>\n here the finished piece it was 4×4 ft on pannel<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n