Vagabond Artist

So I told my boyfriend the recipe for Gambas Flambee that I posted in my last entry and he told me that I had to correct the recipe that is a comment under the photos. The real recipe goes like this: You go to the market and let your French boyfriend buy the Gambas... the rest is the same.

The photo above is a view of my atelier yesterday. At the moment I am working on 6 paintings of Paris, the sizes are 100x150 cm for 5 of them and one is 120x60cm. Until I came to Paris with the contract I am working on for the US corporation I thought that 120x60cm was a large painting. Now it feels small to me. I found that the drawing is so important, sounds dumb but for this style of painting if the drawing is confusing then painting slows down. On the wall are some paintings from my trip to Monet's garden Giverny and Vernon.

Monday I got an envelope from the Prefecture de Police. I have to get a carte de sejour. It bumms me out after living in Italy as an Italian citizen. It took along time to get citizenship in Italy and I remember the day I was sworn in at the city hall in Castellina in Chianti. That night in 1995 I went home and burned in the fireplace stacks of documents and photocopies of documents. It was so cathartic. So now to have to go through getting a carte de sejour makes me weak in the knees. Luckily in France as a EU citizen I can send my request in the mqil qnd wait for them to phone me for an appointment instead of getting up at 5am and and going to wait in line in the rain. My first step is to go to the Maison des artistes and register but as anyone knows that does these things if it goes smoothly on the first try I am more than lucky. I will try to go tomorrow.