Les Vacances de Madame Pauline

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Mackinaw City, Mi

After their escapade to the city of lights, la Belle Pauline and her Freevolous Messenger, Stuart Krasna, bid farewell on the shores of Lake Michigan…

sunset on Lake Michigan

Sunset on Lake Michigan

Take the A train to the Island?

She visited the famous fudge shops

Here is La Belle Pauline looking at the  Mackinaw Bridge, the longest bridge in North America

Here is La Belle Pauline looking at the Mackinaw Bridge, the longest bridge in North America

She also climbed to the top of Arch Rock in Mackinac Island

She also climbed to the top of Arch Rock in Mackinac Island

Grass for Pauline and a few rabbits

Giving Grass to Pauline and a few rabbits on Mackinac Island

“La Belle Pauline has returned to the states and is currently enjoying a relaxing vacation along the shores of Lake Michigan in Mackinaw City, Michigan… This island which doesn’t allow car traffic allows bicycles to be the main mode of transportation. One can also opt for horse and carriage.
And now this freevolous messenger has entrusted the next freevolous messenger with La Belle Pauline’s continued jouney. Everything was clearly explained, and the new carrier is quite enthusiastic. I look forward to seeing her appearance here on this blog soon. Good bye La Belle Pauline, and please stay in touch.

As a note, “Mackinac” and “Mackinaw” are the two possible correct spellings of the word and it’s spelled differently depending on whether you are referring to the city or the island.

Stuart”

To know more about La Belle Pauline, please visit  Messages in a Bottle and the FKL Show. Visit Paris with her in this blog. Visit her first sighting  in Ballet Class.
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South Manhattan

Springhill Suites
25 West 37th Street, New York

This hotel offered me to paint on June 18 views from their roof and show more of my work in their lobby. Tough, it was raining that day.

Looking south, down to the new World Trade Tower

Looking south, down to the new One World Trade Center

Rusted by a 12 year hiatus in practice of cityscape painting, I went up the two preceding weekends on the roof of the Glass Farmhouse Building to paint radically changed views of Midtown. So many new buildings and such a warmer palette! Check it out on NY City Landscapes.

Mummy

Uncle Mario’s
New York Hell’s Kitchen

Rescued on April 13, 2013, at the corner of 42nd Street and 9th Avenue a mannequin from Monetti’s pizza.

pizza-man-01

Mummified in my studio, its history as well as Hell’s Kitchen’s recorded in hieroglyphic style on canvas strips. Set on a golden base and donated on May 17, 2013 to Uncle Mario’s pizzeria, at 739 9th Avenue, on the occasion of the “Artists in the Kitchen” studio tours.

pizza-man-10Witness to the transformation of Hell’s Kitchen, the mummified pizza mannequin now stands guard in front of the pyramids of Worldwide Plaza.
More about the mummy in NYscapes, the Pizza Mannequin page.