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This is the first time 9/11 is going out from Dorothée's "atelier de peinture". The roses of painting should now be dry and it's spring ! Time to blossom and do a first expo.

Dorothée will join the exhibition organized with the help of the ALPY association and the city of Saint-Germain-en-Laye at the Espace Paul et André Vera from May 21 to 29, 2011: www.alpy.asso.fr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=138:venez-voir-notre-exposition-&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=50 

Thanks for joining & don't hesitate to contact her if you want to share a drink at the "vernissage" next Tuesday May 24.

Dorothée wants to thank the  for selecting her work among other international artists.

Her work can be seen on registry.national911memorial.org

18 hours of non-stop work: and here's the result !

Pasting the gold between each rose:

Only 1 comment: "YES WE CAN !" 

I had told you Dorothée had painted all the roses but one. She was keeping it for a special occasion. The 1rst rose was sculpted @ 8:46 exactly one year ago and the last one @ 8:46 on Saturday 9/11/2010...

It's not the bigest one...but yet one of the most important !

One year after starting this challenge, the painting is about to be finished.

Will Dorothée make it on time ?

Missing the last rose and still quite some gold...

Pony Pony Run Run www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykSZMaZl2fY !!!

The more gold, the more the roses come to life ! It's astonishing !

Quite sure Dorothée has finished on her knees !

Noticed the work Dorothée's done in a week ?

Finishing by this 9/11 might be doable afterall !

At least Dorothée can work comfortably :-)

but soon she'll have to knee down...

Check the numbers on the side of the canvas...

...counting the roses !

Dorothée has been spending these entire last days "sticking" Gold onto the painting's background. How many hours of repeated movements ? 15, 20,... more ?

What's sure is that this job is time consuming ! She says it's relaxing ;-)

Check the result by yourself.

Sunday:                                                                Now:

See any difference ?

And here's part 2 of the gigantisc task: fill in the "empty spots" with 22 carat Gold leaves.

This part is less constraining in terms of "feelings" (no hastle wondering which colors to mix, chosing the right size & the location of each rose) but is very time consumming and requires a great technical skills.

* Dorothée starts mixing the fixator with some red oil and "paints it on the white areas" with a tiny paintbrush:

* She then takes 2 other brushes to create electrostatic energy to "stick" a minuscule piece of the gold leaf to one of the brushes:

* The last operation consists in "pasting this minuscule Gold piece at the right spot":

Yess !

Question: how many times will she have to do these operations to cover all the background ???

Methodology, Precision, Patience and an enormous Perseverance !

Here are some pix showing the artwork realized for each of the near-to-3000 roses.

* For each rose, Dorothée has mixed oil colors from a very large variety of Rembrand oils:

* Positioning & sculpting roses in 3D:

This phase of the project has taken nearly 12 months while ensuring that each rose was unique and had the time to dry enough to continue the work !

Now that the "frame of roses" is layed down, dorothée can focus on filling the background with gold.

It's an enourmous work !

Here's the result after a few dozen of hours:

Less than 300 to go and then start taking care of the background...

911 has now over 950 roses, almost 1/3 of the final total !

Over 400 roses.

"Tied by Destiny" starts to be completely unreadable...

Over 200 roses...

The first rose was sculpted at 8:46 am NY time.

Astonishingly, it fell...(1rst time ever a rose fell in 20 years of painting !).

Waiting for the 1rst rose !!!

This is the real starting date of the project. The next step is to clean up the new "atelier de peinture"...

A master piece canvas :

• of 154cm * 250cm
• which will include 2974 sculpted roses
• made with oil painting