Description
La Durée is a venerable Salon de The (tea house) in Paris. I took the photo that became this painting while on a trip there with Anne and Brad (my sister-in-law and nephew) in March of 2008. This image has been calling to me to paint it as a companion to the eclairs from Fauchon – colorful pastries from Paris – food as art. These lovely crispy, intensely flavored cookies I’m now seeing everywere…though the first time was here, in Paris – at La Duree. Yet another completely different subject matter to actually paint, all the details of the “foot” of the merengue cookies – the silver plate, its details and the reflections were really fun to paint. And as I was painting each one, I kept wondering what the flavor might be. I’ll have to go back to find out! Yum!
April 2010
