...and so am I! A few months ago, a Parisian friend of mine suggested I enter a French travel sketchbook competition. I did and I was accepted, so my sketchbook and I will be flying over this fall, along with my husband (the exhibit opening coincides with our anniversary!) I don't know the particulars yet---just got the acceptance email yesterday and will get the complete info by snail mail soon.
This'll be fun! Remember my Charleston sketches, my San Antonio and Chinatown ones? It's that sketchbook, to which will be added some Amish country sketches (as soon as I do them!) Here's a kind of preface page, with translation following:
When I travel in historic towns and cities in the US, I look with the eyes of an artist and nostalgist for traces of the people who once lived there. I find them in architecture, gardens, names, artwork, cuisine, language. In French Quarters, in Chinatowns, in German and Hispanic neighborhoods, the vestiges of old worlds in this new world are like pentimenti, sometimes faint, sometimes as fresh as if newly created.
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Somehow i missed this post - congratulations - how exciting.
Posted by: alison | July 28, 2007 at 05:19 AM
Je vous aime, les amis! Thanks again for your wonderful and hearty congrats--it means so much to hear/see your enthusisasm! As I said, I'll keep you all updated as things develop.
Posted by: Laura | June 27, 2007 at 04:21 PM
Congratulations Laura! Well deserved!I wish you just the best of luck and may this be a wonderful experience and may it open many exciting doors on your future journey. Keep us informed and enjoy preparing for all your upcoming Europe trips.
Ronell
Posted by: Ronell | June 27, 2007 at 09:07 AM
Congratulations! Of COURSE your sketchbooks would win you a prize - if what we've seen is any indication, they are prizeworthy through and through! What a great bit of timing for the trip, too. Yay!
Posted by: Linda | June 27, 2007 at 06:06 AM
Excellent Laura..I've read about that show..
Should be fun.
Is it in Nante?
Posted by: Paris Cerise | June 26, 2007 at 08:05 PM
Let me be the 33rd to send a cartload of confetti!
Posted by: marly | June 26, 2007 at 10:53 AM