tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9488958849750027182024-02-07T12:47:42.437+10:00peter hollardPeter HOLLARD - Drawer, Painter, Illustratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15036601651324050499noreply@blogger.comBlogger87125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-948895884975002718.post-28696726043115403572013-01-07T13:25:00.002+10:002013-01-07T13:25:53.986+10:00VESPERTINE VISIONS - Woodford Folk Festival<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">New Years Eve at Woodford, and I was invited to create one of my drawings in situ. In Artisania, a very public display. One of my large works can take up to 4/5 weeks to complete, so in order to do anything meaningful in a two hour evening performance, I got myself organised.</span></div>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first day of Woodford, I went along with camera in hand, and photographed things that I<i style="font-weight: bold;"> </i>thought captured the spirit of the place.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The next day in my studio, I collaged the images, and drew them with a 7B pencil, onto a large (200cm X 120cm) sheet of brown Kraft paper. The drawing was allowed to be free and distorted, to add to the drama and accentuate feelings about various objects in the work. Fluid, menacing, whimsical etc.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the studio I then toned in all the grey/black areas with Extra Soft Pitt Compressed Charcoal, using my photos as references. </span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I took this to Woodford and on the evening began to render all of the white areas with Art Spectrum Soft Pastels (Titanium White, which is very sharp on the brown paper)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After a couple of hours I had crudely filled in about a quarter of the area, then headed home. There was a lot of passer-by interest, lots of questions and photos, and often people standing two or three deep watching. Even a couple of interested buyers.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's the first drawing I've commenced that doesn't have a European theme and I've found it really interesting to work on. Below is where it's at at the moment, but there's probably another couple of weeks work involved. I will post further photos of it's development.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Visual Art is somewhat unique amongst the Arts.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We tend to squirrel ourselves away in very private studios, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">preferring isolation, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">loud music and particular rag-tag clothes that become our uniform of intent. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Puts us in the mood, all necessary to create.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No phones, no visitors. </span></div>
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Peter HOLLARD - Drawer, Painter, Illustratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15036601651324050499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-948895884975002718.post-76366393046705827882013-01-07T11:51:00.001+10:002013-01-07T11:52:06.901+10:00ARTISANIA at the Woodford Folk Festival 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">It's always been my mission as an Art teacher, to debunk the myth that being able to draw is left to a gifted few who are born with an almost divine trait. You can teach anyone a few simple tricks and ways of seeing to enable them to create something they thought was beyond their abilities.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yesterday I attended Yanni's workshop. He showed us his unique way of working, using powdered charcoal and brushes to slowly build areas up, adding the effects of charcoal pencil to detail and strengthen areas, and then cutting back into the surfaces with chiselled edged erasers to create the lighter sections. And then on occasions, powdered white pastel or conte are brushed over some areas to bring out the highlights. The jacket below on the cover of Yanni's catalogue, would have started as a solid black charcoal block, and the light shades etched back into the surface with the eraser.</span></div>
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</div>Peter HOLLARD - Drawer, Painter, Illustratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15036601651324050499noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-948895884975002718.post-58373590877091198082012-04-17T19:54:00.002+10:002012-04-17T19:57:25.768+10:00SALT Magazine - Autumn 2012 - Artwork<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The stories are always presented to me about a month and half before going to press, and I am given open slather to treat them in any way I choose. Often difficult, but always fun. Invariably, an idea springs to mind on the the first reading, and despite all attempts to improve upon that idea, the initial gut response proves to be the most relevant. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The drawing I have been working on is titled "Lutte Et Le Desir" (Struggle and Desir) It is the accumulation of a lot of ideas that were teased out in my journal over a number of weeks. One thought was to include the picturesque Spanish village of Cadaques, a place I had visited on a couple of occasions, and the place where Salvador Dali holidayed as a youth. It was the source of many of his iconic coastal landscapes, and I wanted it to emerge from a flat photo into a 3D image as it rolled across the surface of the paper. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When the entire surface is finally covered, the fun begins. I love the notion of depth in my work, a sense that you can "enter" it, so then it's time to push areas back and pull some parts of the image forward. The quiet addition of warm red pastel to pull, and cool blue pastel to push, creates dimension, and subtle and interesting changes to the work.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So when is the work finished? This drawing has sat on my easel in this state for about two months now, and I have not been tempted to touch it, to walk up and tweak some troubling square centimetre, even though I scan it constantly. There is this gut feeling, this intangible knowing that it is done.</span></div>
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The initial concept came from a drawing in one of my journals that refers to my personal struggle with creating work and generating new ideas. But it is also a direct link to the Australian artist Brett Whitely, one of my artistic heroes, who referred to his "affliction", that is being born with a gift that <b><i>had</i></b> to be honoured. He had no choice in the matter. Whitely called Art "the difficult pleasure". One can speculate whether it ultimately cost him his life.</div>
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There are times when I feel I am a slave to the image. There is always an enormous internal struggle to honour, to create and to entertain the muse within. A week without making a mark on paper, is to feel the itch within the fingertips take hold. Something has to be made, and what that is isn't always obvious.</div>
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This new work honours those times.</div>
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The titanium white soft pastel is then worked into this. Some areas are left raw, while others are blended.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The yard below my house is home to the occasional <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-bellied_Black_Snake">Red Bellied Black Snake</a>, who love the close proximity to the dam beyond. I'm not a snake fan, but love seeing these beauties and feel fortunate to have them around. I'm not sure I've ever seen such an intense, brilliant black, and this is married with the vibrant fire red of their bellies. They are spectacular. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So to admire them and monitor their presence, I hand mow the grass with my little 14 inch Victa.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mowing is therapeutic for me, and a form of exercise. The patterns have started to emerge over time, and make the whole process seem speedier. It's another opportunity to draw. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I change the patterns every 12 months.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Favourite denims drying in the afternoon.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The view from the deck at the front of my studio.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stacks of charcoal, pastel and graphite. </span><br />
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</div>Peter HOLLARD - Drawer, Painter, Illustratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15036601651324050499noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-948895884975002718.post-70421120170367427112012-01-28T13:06:00.000+10:002012-01-28T15:36:01.051+10:00‘I Love the Lab’ (114.5 x 76.5 cm) Charcoal, Pastel, Graphite on Paper<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They discard the trappings of this contemporary life, pull out those older garments that smack of a more casual and eloquent hippy era, and stroll the streets searching for unusual foods, beaded and braided home crafts, and the warm sounds of folk and blues floating from any one of the many venues.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We walk into the Blues Tent and watch a 30 year old Canadian named <a href="http://www.stubbyfingers.ca/contact">Matt Andersen</a>. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Andersen's voice is powerfully rich, yet sweet, and lulls you through gentle ballads. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His voice sinks so low as he purrs out "I'm a steamroller baby", </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the second time in my life I was moved to tears.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I leave Woodford for another year, </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I slugged through the previous piece, this new idea emerged. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He was asked how he handled writers block. He said it would happen often. Times when the creative juices didn't flow, but it wasn't a problem. He had learnt during those times, to write anything that came to him down on paper, sketchy ideas, random notes or obscure lyrics. Didn't judge it, just got it all down. It could take days, weeks, months, but slowly something worthwhile and concrete would emerge from the ramblings. A song.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As my head is released to these meditative drawing spaces, invariably it wanders off to new ideas. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I can't leave the largely unsatisfying work "unfinished", but the newly emerging concepts are recorded in my journal. To be tackled after I've purged the above piece.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I travelled I not only maintained a blog about the journey, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and took nearly 2000 photos, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've always kept visual journals.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These journals, of which I now have 14 spanning 21 years, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They are not filled with finished art works, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We drive through the Loire Valley.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">which is part of a large regional natural park. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In this area is a little town named <a href="http://www.google.com.au/search?q=huelgoat+france&hl=en&biw=1034&bih=596&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=eaKhTrXUItP64QSKzfyvBA&sqi=2&ved=0CHYQsAQ">Huelgoat</a>,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> which sits amidst magnificent forests on a serene woodland lake. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A beautiful 3 storey building right in the heart of the village, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a group of artists studios!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">$390,000!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">empty galleries and art schools in grand old buildings,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and an open air ampitheatre in the woods, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but I was told they all move out when it starts to get cold.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rich pickings for a bunch of artists from Australia to move into and revive the little towns </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">art and soul.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Enchanted and fairytale like, everything Robin Hood would have dreamed off, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">High tide covers all but the central part of this road, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The spring tide in this bay is 15 metres (the highest in France) </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and the sea can recede 17 kms out into the bay. </span></div>
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</div>Peter HOLLARD - Drawer, Painter, Illustratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15036601651324050499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-948895884975002718.post-52670951418394405822011-10-18T05:17:00.002+10:002011-10-18T05:17:50.501+10:00We Move On To Granville<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After a while the city comes in on you, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and there is the need for a breeze and open space.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We hire a car and head west to the Atlantic, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and the village that I spent some time in last trip, <a href="http://www.francethisway.com/places/granville.php">Granville</a>.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have the fondest memories of this place. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's the scene of my artistic renaissance, where I sat in my small room </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and worked on a new body of art, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">which I am still working on.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Granville is a small fishing port, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">protected by a strong headland that cradles strong, brutish granite buildings</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and naval fortifications from a bygone era. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They stand as proud sentinels to the time of the sailing ship.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's massive sea wall indicates the ferocity of winter storms that lash the Atlantic coast. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Each morning the fishing fleet returns with cold rooms </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">full of the largest collection of shell fish anywhere in France.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And it's great to hear seagulls again.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sometimes you head into a town and sort out your accommodation when you get there. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And sometimes you strike it lucky!</span></div>
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</div>Peter HOLLARD - Drawer, Painter, Illustratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15036601651324050499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-948895884975002718.post-22515432155357441112011-10-18T02:55:00.000+10:002011-10-18T02:55:49.950+10:00But There's Still The Old Paris.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAtHGb4keCjN-gNYcrWek3bFGntMS94OhUzLU1ET71hsDo4ulFIrizEbVbnfeQfrY9twJBx5QC7M3DeKxNfl0BesiFJ_BvXQPkDpZTDpAEsVxdlHN51PrjDygYMV0J5aoO_O41cl8L8aA3/s1600/IMG_0042.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAtHGb4keCjN-gNYcrWek3bFGntMS94OhUzLU1ET71hsDo4ulFIrizEbVbnfeQfrY9twJBx5QC7M3DeKxNfl0BesiFJ_BvXQPkDpZTDpAEsVxdlHN51PrjDygYMV0J5aoO_O41cl8L8aA3/s320/IMG_0042.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">How modern can you get?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Even the graffiti works.<br />
And that green and white plastic pod?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In Montmartre, this innocent entrance to a building...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">... but enlarge this image and read the print.<br />
You are always so close to your heroes.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And this cafe in Montmartre.<br />
Note the square sign under the name, <br />
and read on...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You don't have to read French <br />
to understand the significance of this place</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Old and new co-exist beautifully.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The domes of Sacre Coeur, Montmartre.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The streets of Montmartre.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Street performers of Montmartre.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The square behind Sacre Coeur, <br />
where painters, portrait artists and guys with black paper and scissors <br />
are always at the ready. A great place to sit and people watch.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Montmartre.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Paris is elegant at every level.</td></tr>
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</div>Peter HOLLARD - Drawer, Painter, Illustratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15036601651324050499noreply@blogger.com0