Paris, City of Lights

I’ve long had a love affair with Paris. Broad boulevards, flower vendors, sidewalk cafés, and the ceaseless bustle of cars and people – it’s all part of the charm of one of the world’s most cosmopolitan cities.

My painting Paris, City of Lights, Le Boulevard des Lumiéres at Dusk could be titled “The Kinkade Family in Paris.” I’ve set the time machine back a few decades and included myself – in the red beret – painting the miniature painting entitled “Café Nanette;” which, incidentally, has the smallest Thomas Kinkade signature to date. The real Nanette is holding baby Chandler while she hails a cab with our oldest daughter Merritt looking on. And in true Kinkade tradition, fifteen hidden “N’s” grace the painting as tribute to my Parisian belle, Nanette.