Another oil painting!

I realized recently that it had been quite a long time since I'd posted one of my oil paintings of the Seine. And just yesterday, I was doing some sketches down on the quai and remembering how much fun it is. So hopefully there will be plenty more sketches, drawings, paintings and other Seine-inspired work that I can post here over the next few months. It's nice to finally have this warm sunny spring weather we've been waiting so long for! If any of you other Parisians out there are taking advantage of this lovely spring by spending their days making art on the quai, then feel free to submit what you're up to for inclusion in a future blog post. But for now, I humbly offer this painting of mine. I'd love to see some feedback in the comments section. The summer's coming in just a few days and I wish you all a happy one! Hope to see you all along the banks of the Seine!

 

An oil painting of the Seine along the Ile Saint-Louis

by Leslie McAllister

Welcome to "I'm au Quai, You're au Quai"!

"I'm au Quai, You're au Quai" is a photo/art/writing blog that I have created to share documents of those moments of contemplation, introspection, inspiration and (heaven forbid) creativity that  regularly arise along the banks of the Seine in Paris, France. I often spend my afternoons drawing, taking pictures, or writing on the quai somewhere, and I know that many of my artist and writer friends in this city can say the same. To begin, I will post my own stuff: images, notes, musings, etc that I have harvested and compiled from my many quai-side sessions. But my hope is that my friends and colleauges, and eventually new friends and colleagues, will submit their own work to me for inclusion in this blog. Feel free to send any visual or verbal art, as long as it either was created on the quai in Paris or features the quai as its subject matter. And for now, while I wait for those submissions to start pouring in, I will update every few days with some more stuff of my own.

Contact me at leslie@lesliemcallister.com