Paris Video: Matisse Exhibition Take-Aways, my Travel Sketchbook Tour and Shop Haul

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In this video, you will find a sketchbook tour of two days I recently spent in Paris, along with some footage of the Matisse exhibition at Le Grand Palais which will run until the 26th July.

This HUGE exhibition focuses on his work between 1941-1954 and shows sketchbooks, letter correspondence, oil paintings on canvas, graphite sketches, decoupage, plans for stained glass windows and much more. Of course, my videography does not do it justice but hopefully it will offer a glimpse of the joy one can experience when seeing artwork by Henri Matisse.

The video also shows:

• my travel notes, scribbles, journals while on the train to London and to Paris on the Eurostar

• 16 ideas for your sketchbook on a plan B trip in Paris

• clips of Paris

• clips of the Matisse exhibition shop

• sketch notes on Amy Poehler’s Good Hang with Billie Eilish

• a book and a magazine I brought back from the exhibition shop

• how I create a cute envelop for my collected bits of paper treasures which I picked up at the museum

I also reference:

• my sketchbook which is by Stillman&Birn, the Beta series

• the visual journals I created the week of the trip

• Tracy Emin’s new life on The Great Women Artists podcast

• Marin Montagut’s shop near the Park du Luxembourg

• Henri Matisse’s Park du Luxembourg, 1901

• a delightful shop window in the Crillion hotel lobby

• My Visual Journaling Retreat in France next May

Below I also include photos of the area I stayed in as well as photos of the references I used as inspiration during and after my trip and a photo of the 16 ideas I mentioned in the video.

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