6620. Les Crocos – an illustration a day from Paris, France –

6620 – Les Crocos : approx 10x15cm : ink and watercolor on archival watercolor paper.

To purchase go to >> >> available postcards << << Collectable postcard sized illustrations from my follies in the city of lights.

Food packaging is very well researched in this a the history of packaging by Paula Hook and Joe E. Heimlich. Here is a quote “Although commercial paper bags were first manufactured in Bristol, England, in 1844, Francis Wolle invented the bag making machine in 1852 in the United States.” They state that the Chinese invented cardboard in the early 17th Century and glass containers can be found from 7000 years ago but it was the Kellog Brothers who had the genius to package cereal in boxes. The biggest advancements in individual proportions were thanks to the military. I read somewhere in a Slowfood magazine that it was the Scottish Army who discovered the use of packaging. So much trash we’ve made in 100 years.

The French love Haribo. I don’t eat candy but I do love these packages.

About Angie

Angie Brooksby was born in New York in 1965. She lives in Hyères, France where she paints in different styles. abstract landscapes, with gold leaf, watercolor, and oil plein air paintings of the French Riviera. After obtaining her diploma in Sculpture at M.I.C.A. she moved to Italy in 1990 and painted plein air landscapes for 21 years. The she moved to Paris in 2007 where she painted urban scenes. She is also a gong player and a Biofield Tuning Practitioner

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