A quick oil painting

Here's an oil painting I dashed off one afternoon, looking at the tip of the Ile Saint-Louis from the left bank. I'm starting to realize that I often hang out around the same spots. Maybe I'll have to make an effort to get over to the right bank one of these days! Where do you like to hang out on the quai? And what kinds of things do you make and do there? Submissions for this blog can be sent to me at leslie@lesliemcallister.com . I'm looking for art, photography, writing, or film that was inspired by or created on the quai in Paris. I recently received word that a favorite novelist of mine will soon be sending in a segment from one of his novels that takes place there! In the meantime, please feel free to share, comment, discuss, critique, or just stay in  touch :).

A brief video meditation

Here's a short clip I cut together from some video footage I shot on the quai one day. Drop me a line to let me know what you think of it. Or better yet, send in your own videos, photos, art and writing from the riverbanks of Paris!

A watercolor from the left bank

Here's my next contribution to the I'm au Quai, You're au Quai series. This is a watercolor I did one afternoon on the left bank near the Pont Saint-Louis. If you have any paintings, drawings, writings, photos, or other artworks that you did on the quais of Paris, please feel free to send them to me at leslie@lesliemcallister.com .

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