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Interlude in Blue #3 Guide
Interlude in Blue #3 – A Frog in Time When I wrote the book I actually encountered a paragraph in a book on color that stated that blue pigment didn’t exist in any vertebrate. Problem is, I couldn’t...
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Chapter 7 Guide
Chapter 7 – Form, Line, Light, Shadow A drawing class from the 19th Century, although this would have been more the size at the E’cole de Beaus Arts at the Acadamie, which was the Salon’s sponsored...
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Chapter 6 Guide
Chapter 6 – Portrait of a Rat Catcher “The Pope did not decree that you should have a striped dress to go dancing in, woman.” Le Louge – Pierre August Renoir – Striped dresses were all the rage in the...
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Interlude in Blue #2 Guide
Interlude in Blue #2 – Making the Blue A sculpture from unpolished lapis lazuli Crushed lapis lazuli, or ultramarine pigment. This photo actually appears a bit duller than synthetic ultramarine. It...
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Chapter 5 Guide
Chapter 5 – Gentlemen with Paint Under Their Nails The Salon des Refusés There’s a whole political story behind how the Salon des Refusés and how it’ssort of interestingly but indirectly tied into...
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Chapter 4 Guide
Chapter 4 – PENTIMENTO “They sat on a bench across from the cabaret the Lapin Agile, a small vineyard at their back, the city of Paris spread out before them” The Lapin Agile as it appears today. It is...
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Chapter 3 Guide
Chapter 3 – The Wrestling Dogs of Montmartre “She was a stout, wide-bottomed woman who wore her chestnut hair up in a loose chignon that trailed tendrils that were either born of weariness or were...
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Chapter 2 Guide
Chapter 2 – The Women They Come and Go “he made his way across the square to the edge of the Montmartre, where he looked out over Paris, shining in the noon day sun” View of Paris from Montmartre...
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Interlude in Blue #1 Guide
Interlude in Blue # 1 Sacré Bleu Madonna and Child by Domenico Veneziano around 1440. Note that the browns and greens of the painting have degraded and faded over the years, while the blue remains...
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Who Knew? When I’ve written historical novels in the past, I always stumbled into a hole in history, a time or person about which very little was known (Jesus Christ and King Lear), so I was able to...
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