dangerous situation - je vis dangereusement

 

 

 

Dangerous situation : tea and water with brushes:) 

Une situation dangereuse: du thé et des pinceaux:) 

kitschy girl - portrait kitsch

Les portraits sont difficiles... je fais des essais à l'acrylique, mais c'est dur.
Deux images pour montrer la progression de celui-ci, que je considère maintenant comme fini.
Portraits are difficult...I'm trying with acrylics, but that's hard.
Two snapshots to show the progress of this one, that I find finished now.

Acrylic on acrylic paper, 18*24 inches
Acrylique sur papier pour acrylique, 46*61 cm


After having posted it on www.wetcanvas.com, I followed the adviced received and changed the left cheek color:

Cat - Chat

Acrylic on canvas, 30cm*40cm
A cat painting I'm working on and not very satisfied with for the time being. I think it will sit for a while in a corner of my studio waiting to be either completed or liked.
Une expérimentation en forme et couleurs dont je ne suis pas entièrement satisfaite. Il va attendre dans un coin de mon atelier, soit une modification, soit qu'il me plaise mieux...

Mice - souris

 Mice sketches from my sketchbook.
Croquis de souris.

Still progressing on "Take No Oujo2" and small watercolors

Here is the latest progress image, poor image quality I'm afraid:


I have still work to do, but now I know better where this is leading me.
I added a lot of texture medium to be able to play with the color better.
It is almost only palette knife work now.
I made 2 small flower watercolors, 20*20cm ( 7.8*7.8 inches ).
It is a pleasure to do them and to be free again with water and color after the work with acrylic!


Which one do you like better?

Progress images on "Take No Oujo2"

Here are a few progress images on the second bamboo painting.
Just a proof that I haven't switched to digital painting yet!
The first is the more recent.
I have some trouble working on so big a surface, but I think it is taking some shape now. At least I have a better idea of where it is leading me.

Bamboos continued

Hereafter are new progress images of this painting.









As can be seen in the last two images, the surface is very textured. I used this canvas for a long time to make abstract trials and use the rest of my paints to finish my palette. It makes a very intersting surface to work on.

Bamboos and asian figure wip

This is a new project with bamboos and an asian figure.
I'm not sure yet of the direction it will go.
A sketch:

A beginning with a rather small canvas:

To be continued...

Muscaris continued 3

Working on the bulbs and leaves.
That is a long and rather slow work.

Muscaris continued 2

I worked on the background, adding blue and red and ochre.
I redefined the leaves and onions with charcoal to prepare for the detailed work on them.
The colors are slightly off with the halogen light.
My challenge now is that the real plant is not in the same shape today than when I began to work on this painting.

Muscaris continued

Some more work on the muscaris.
The composition sketches:

A photograph of the real object I'm working with:

The first acrylic on canvas sketch:

This is a long WIP...

...and it is still to be continued.
I redid some zones that had a "too complicated" color in my opinion with a simpler mix and tried to keep my colors bolder than usual.
I have still work to do but I'm happier with the result now.

wip iris 3

Continued very slowly. This snapshot was taken with artificial lightning and re-balanced with sofware so as to be closer in color to the painting. I'm not quite happy with the painting's colors. I may rework some parts. I think it will take longer than scheduled...

wip iris continued - lilac

Lilac, watercolor, 18*24 cm, 7*9 inches.
A little watercolor done while procrastinating in front of the Iris heart acrylic.
Here is the progress on the iris wip.
I did a violet layer, that seems blue in the photograph, then begun to smooth the transitions in some zones.

iris canvas wip

Step 1

I have begun a relatively big painting of the heart of an iris on canvas ( 55*46 cm, 22*18 inches ).
I first draw the main lines with charcoal then used red and ochres to do the underpainting. The aim is to make the colour vibrate with its complementary when I do the mainly violet overpainting.
step 2

Cat watercolor wip

This is a new watercolor I'm beginning, a cat's face.
I began with doing a lot of cat's hair with a small sable brush. Some people begin with washes to have the whole head defined, I prefer to define it with the small strokes of the hair. It may be because I'm usually more comfortable with line than color? I'll try the washes first technique another time.
Next step: the blue in the eyes and the rose nose.

watercolor wip continued (3)

I'm finishing the petals one by one.
The more contrasted areas in the photo are still wet. They will be less contrasted when dry.
I have added a little winsor yellow in the center of the flower.

Watercolor WIP continued

Now I'm filling the surfaces wet in wet with a mix of alizarin crimson and winsor dioxazine violet.
It takes some drying time because I cannot do adjacent surfaces.

Watercolor WIP

Today, I began a rose macro in watercolor. I'll post the different steps here in the next few days.
Small format, 18*26cm, 7*10 inches on Lanaquarelle paper.