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Elska showcases the men of LGBTQ Paris

Elska Magazine, a publication dedicated to sharing the bodies and voices of LGBTQ communities around the planet, has put the highlight on Paris for its newest situation. Inside readers can get up near and personal with a cross-segment of beautifully everyday local adult men from one particular of the world’s most famous capitals.

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“It was critical that one particular day we’d make an challenge in Paris, it is just just one of individuals terrific entire world cities,” claims Elska editor and main photographer Liam Campbell. “But it was a very little daunting to tactic a put with this kind of a reputation, and one that evokes so considerably stereotype and expectation. The ‘City of Light’, the ‘City of Love’, the city of rude waiters and mile-extensive museum queues… I made a decision that the ideal way to method Paris was to go devoid of any programs, to just satisfy

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Sketching with Watercolor at the Medici Fountain in Paris

In Paris last thirty day period I did some sketching at one of my most loved places, the Medici Fountain in the Luxembourg Gardens.

The entire 10-minute online video sharing the process of making these two sketches is a free bonus program available to my atelier Users on the Courses page.

The statues on the fountain are by Auguste Ottin, and signify the huge cyclops Polyphemus, in bronze, getting the sea-nymph Acis with her human lover, Galatea, in white marble. In the Greek myth, jealous Polyphemus kills Acis, so Galatea transforms her lover into an immortal river spirit.

The fountain and grotto ended up intended for Marie de’ Medici’s Left Bank palace, established in the 1620’s. In 1811 the fountain was restored and moved to its present location, and the statues were extra at that time.

I very first discovered the fountain on my high faculty journey to France, in

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