Bonne Année : Rick Tulka
By December 31, 2009
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Rick Tulka, Paris-based artist and illustrator best known for his on-the-spot sketches of flâneurs burning daylight and washing back kirs at Le Select, the famed café on Boulevard Montparnasse, offers a self-portrait greeting for 2010. Yes, that was him, penciling in your double chin last Tuesday! Only kidding. Bonne Année…

American-in-Paris artist Rick Tulka sends this 2010 greeting from his regular haunt, Le Select, in the heart of Paris
American-in-Paris artist Rick Tulka sends this 2010 greeting from his regular haunt, Le Select, in the heart of Paris

See his site here: Rick Tulka and his portraits of people on his Flickr Page.

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