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To celebrate my aunt/godmother’s birthday, my family and I treated her to dinner at a restaurant called Chateau du Lac. At the time the restaurant was located on Williams Boulevard in Kenner, Louisiana. I was struck by the colors of the walls inside the restaurant. The lower part was a dark blue and the upper part was bright yellow. The water glasses had the same color blue as the blue portion of the wall. The colors, yellow and blue, were repeated in décor throughout restaurant.


acrylic on canvas, 5" x 5"

The colors scheme made me curious. So, I asked our server about the significance of the colors. She explained that the colors were traditional French colors. I then remembered the blue banners that were used after Hurricane Katrina that sported a yellow fleur de lis and the yellow words “Recover Rebuild Rebirth.”

As long as I was going to create a piece that had to do with this French restaurant, I figured that a fleur de lis would be very appropriate. I decided to imitate the coloring of the walls in the restaurant using a similar proportion of blue versus yellow. This is the third fleur de lis amongst my dot paintings.