2 horses - Thirty paintings in 30 days - day 2 - 2 chevaux - jour 2

Watercolor on Rembrandt paper 14*20 inches
From Wanda McDonald photo in Paint My Photo.

Aquarelle sur papier Rembrandt 36*51 cm
A partir de la photo de Wanda McDonald de Paint My Photo.

Thirty paintings day 2. It is energizing to have a whole month of paintings in front of me.
30 peintures jour 2. C'est stimulant de penser qu'il y a encore 30 jours de peinture.

Swan, Happy New Year 2014, 30 paintings in 30 days day1 - Cygne et Bonne Année 2014

Swan - Watercolor on Montval Paper - 13*16 inches
From a reference from John Andreou from Paint My Photo.

Cygne - Aquarelle sur papier Montval - 32*41 cm
A partir d'une référence de John Andreou de Paint My Photo.

Happy New Year 2014 to all!
Bonne et Heureuse Année 2014 à tous!

30 paintings in 30 days
I just joined Leslie Saeta's challenge to make 30 paintings in 30 days during January. The aim is to improve your painting skills by making one painting a day during this month.Wish me luck for this endeavour!
Day one
30 paintings in 30 days
Je viens de rejoindre l'initiative de Leslie Saeta qui propose de faire une peinture par jour pendant le mois de janvier. Le but est d'améliorer sa technique en se forçant à travailler régulièrement. Souhaitez-moi bonne chance!
Jour 1

Orchid - Orchidée

Orchid - Arcylic on canvas - 20*16 inches
Orchidée - Acrylique sur toile - 50*40 cm

Jayme McGowan

The illustrations of Jayme McGowan are very poetic and beautiful.
Les illustrations de Jayme McGowan sont très poètiques et belles.

Max Ginsburg

I love Max Ginsburg street paintings, and also his old illustrations. His realism may be a little hard to look at sometimes, but he is a real master of painting.
This article explains some of his processes.
J'aime beaucoup les peintures de rue de Max Ginsburg ainsi que ses anciennes illustrations. Son réalisme est parfois un peu dur, mais il maîtrise parfaitement la peinture.
Cet article explique sa façon de travailler.

Handprint Watercolor Resource - Site pour l'aquarelle handprint

Handprint contains a wealth of data on watercolor paints and their characteristics. A very informative site, particularly useful to chose a pigment and a brand for a color you want to buy.
Handprint (en anglais ) est un site qui contient une mine d'informations sur les aquarelles et leurs caractéristiques. Il est particulièrement utile pour choisir un pigment et une marque d'aquarelle quand on recherche une couleur précise.

Deborah Secor's book - Le livre de Deborah Secor

Deborah Secor's pastel book on painting landscape is available online and was recommended on the WetCanvas! pastel forum. WetCanvas! is an english speaking artist's forum which gathers artists from the whole world. A wonderful resource to visit often.
Le livre de Deborah Secor sur les paysages au pastel est disponible en ligne et est recommandé dans la partie pastel du site WetCanvas!. Pour ceux qui ne le connaissent pas, WetCanvas! est un forum anglophone d'artistes du monde entier. Encore une ressource magique à visiter souvent.

Yann Hovadik's blog

Yann Hovadik's blog is a very useful resource, full of advices on how to paint and beautiful examples. (in french)
Le blog de Yann Hovadik est une mine de liens, de conseils et d'exemples sur le dessin et la peinture, en français. A consulter régulièrement.

Orchids - Orchidées

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

Sunflower - Tournesol

Watercolor on watercolor paper
Aquarelle sur papier aquarelle
40*40cm 16*16inches

Joaquin Sorolla

Joaquin Sorolla (1863-1923 ) is a spanish painter whose paintings are illuminated with light. I have been to an exposition where his paintings were exposed alongside to Sargent's and the effect was stunning.
Joaquin Sorolla (1863-1923 ) est un peintre espagnol dont les tableaux resplendissent de lumière. J'avais été à une exposition conjointe Sargent/Sorolla et l'effet était saisissant.

How to draw a head - Comment dessiner une tête

How to draw a head tutorial is a demonstration of a quick sketch of a head. This site contains other videos and tutorials too.
Cette demonstration montre comment faire un croquis rapide d'une tête. Le site contient aussi d'autres démonstrations et tutoriaux (en anglais).

Landscape - Paysage

Acrylic on canvas 30cm*40cm
To continue in a somewhat naive style, trying to play with shapes and especially colors, a stylized landscape.
Pour continuer dans un style plutôt naif et essayer de jouer des formes et des couleurs, ce paysage stylisé.

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...

Jason Seiler

Jason Seiler 's Pope Francis portrait for the cover for Time Magazine is impressive. Its painting process is detailed in this article.It is surprising to see he is working on a digital tablette.
Le portrait du Pape François par Jason Seiler a fait la couverture de Time Magazine. C'est impressionnant de voir qu'il travaille sur tablette numérique. Je ne comprends pas comment il arrive a avoir suffisamment de recul  pour voir l'oeuvre dans son ensemble, de cette façon.

Illustration Friday -Spirit

From my sketchbook, pencil.
Extrait de mon carnet de croquis, crayon à papier.

Jack Morefield

Jack Morefield strange and beautiful paintings...His use of shapes and color is very interesting.

Mice - souris

 Mice sketches from my sketchbook.
Croquis de souris.

Calvin Nicholls

Calvin Nicholls paper sculptures are superb.

Illustration Friday - Pattern

Nicolai Fechin

Nicolai Fechin drawings are marvellous .

Illustration Friday - Whisper

From my sketchbook, ink and colored pencil.

Happy New Year

A Happy (if belated) New Year 2013 to all!

Illustration Friday - Zoom

Zoom on my hand...

Simon Schubert

Simon Schubert work on paper demonstrate impressive skills.

Anna Emilia Laitinen

Anna Emilia Laitinen illustrations are so poetic and sweet.

Illustration Friday - Tree

Tree study.

Severino Baraldi

Old-fashioned, nostalgic illustrations such as there was in ancient textbook. I love the way they are telling stories. Severino Baraldi

Jayme Mc Gowan

Delightful paper illustrations
Jayme Mc Gowan

Illustration Friday - Space

Negative spaces also work sometimes.
And space to think near a tree.

Illustration Friday - Hurry

I forgot the watch...

Illustration Friday - Sight

What a sight we have up here...

Rose

Acrylic on canvas 30*40 cm ( 12*16 inches )
Less turquoise than that in real life.

Cosmos

 Acrylic on canvas 30*40 cm ( 12*16 inches )
Continuing this series of flowers on a blue background...

Rose Tremière

Acrylic on canvas, 40*50 cm ( 16*20 inches)
I'm playing with surface effects and knife painting in these blue pieces.
That doesn't show very well on the photos.

Daisies - Watercolor

Daisies, Watercolor on Rembrandt paper, 31*23 cm

Fruits rouges 3

Acrylic on canvas, 40cm*40cm
Back to painting...

Illustration Friday - Jump

From one of my sketchbooks.

Illustration Friday - Suspense

In my sketchbook, still trying my new acrylic gouache paints.
I find them a bit difficult to master, being more used to the transparencies of watercolor.
The Matrioshkas are inspired by delyo, whose drawings I admire a lot.
Suspense is opening a matrioshka and finding the one nesting in it.

Illustration Friday - Forward

One day late :-)

Coloured pencil and acrylic gouache on blue paper glued in my sketchbook.

Happy New Year

I wish you a wonderful year in 2012.
Illustration inspired by Mathurin Méheut

Translation: In 2012 don't stay put, take your flight!

Illustration Friday - Vanity

Illustration Friday - Fuel

Illustration Friday - Scatter

Using the last hours of 2011 to catch-up with some IF words...
Ink and colored pencil in my sketchbook as usual.

Christopher Cordingley

Fluid, lively nude drawing by Christopher Cordingley.
I wish I could draw like that.

Illustration Friday - Stripes

More catching up...
A zebra in cereals field....

Illustration Fiday - Scary

A late scary image for Illustration  Friday.
I'm lagging behind as regards this challenge, but trying to catch up with the themes.

Chan Hwee Chong

Beautiful Faber-Castell advertising 

News illustration

Sometimes  a news item is particularly striking.
This one I found both funny and strange.
Ink and coloured pencil, from my sketchbook.

Illustration Friday - Ferocious

Lionness.
Coloured Pencils.

Ilustration Friday - Mesmerizing

Horse Eye.
Coloured Pencils.
From an original photography from Doug Wilson

Amy Casey

Amy Casey towns are strange and fascinating necklaces of houses linked by serpentine roads. They evoke spider nests or boats rigging...

Illustration Friday - Stay

My take on illustration friday theme "stay".
From my A4 sketchbook, in Pitt pencil and coloured pencil, text added digitally.

Ryan Woodward - Thought of you

I can't stop watching this animation by Ryan Woodward. The making-of is here.
It is mesmerizing. The dancing, the delicate way of drawing, the music are all so well harmonized.

Steve Thomas

Steve Thomas is an illustrator with a 20's feel in his images.
I particularly love his faux Star Wars advertising posters.

Mary Robinson

Mary Robinson is a young and talented photograph, who makes very expressive portraits.
Beautiful.

How to "pollock" your way in a video game

The Unfinished Swan is a video game where you splash paint to be able to see otherwise invisible objects. Still in development, but seems fun.

Disaster Preparation

That's a grim subject, but the layout and the icons used for this site are well-chosen and striking in a modern, industrial way.
Moreover, it could be useful.
72hours

Katherine Marie Photography

Katherine Marie Photographies are beautiful. I love the way her images seem so big and clear and happy.

Happy New Year

I wish all of you a very happy year for 2010!

Kingfisher - Martin-pêcheur

Kingfisher - Martin-pêcheur
Neocolor crayons about 9 by 12 inches, 23*31cm

Neocolor crayons are a new medium for me. I love the way they could be used as a dry medium or blended with some water.

Doug Braithwaite

Another freshly discovered painter I like very much.
Doug Braithwaite
A deceiving realistic style with poetic accents.
I love "Window View".

Hens - Les Poules

Hens - Les Poules -
Neocolor crayons about 9 by 12 inches, 23*31cm

Ann Wood

Ann Wood is an artist I discovered lately.
Lots of delicacy. I love the boats.

Alice

as in through the looking glass...

Ink and Neocolor crayons.about 4 by 5.8 inches, 10,5*14,7cm

Posemaniacs

Browsing Ghislaine Bruno's blog, I found a tool that could be handy for artists wishing to work on the human figure without a real "Modèle Vivant" studio nearby.
Posemaniacs offers human figure images and some exercises to do in front of your pc such as "30 Second Drawing", "Negative Space Drawing", "Random Pose Viewer" and "Hands for Drawing".
It seems interesting.

Goose

Ink and Neocolor crayons.about 4 by 5.8 inches, 10,5*14,7cm

Comment edition

Hi all, long time no publish...
I have some posts to do soon, but I wanted first to say that I'm forced to moderate the comments for the time being, owing to the apparition of quite a few adds in them.
That will just delay a bit the publication of your comments.

See you!


Added later:
It seems it didn't work properly the first time, I removed an unwanted comment today, but I'll fix it. I still don't want any Ipods, Plastic business cards, rolex or whatever, thank you very much...

Marie-Laure's book

Maire-Laure Alvarez, (Fenetre sur mes couleurs ), a fellow painter and a friend, just wrote a children's book, with another artist, Amelie Callot, doing the illustrations.



Some pages from the book are visible on Marie-Laure's site (Fenetre sur mes couleurs ), really enchanting and poetic.

The book is available on the editor's site (Le Crebassou ) , in french.

Congratulations, Marie-Laure!

Dahlia

Acrylic, 100*80 ( about 31*40 inches )
Long time no post...
Another one from my November show.

Dancer

Acrylic, 100*80cm ( about 31*40 inches)

I have been tagged by Suzanne, but as I like to draw my tag answers, I'll take the time to do that properly over the Christmas break.
Merry Christmas, everyone!

Gourds 2 - Courges II

An acrylic from the show.
40cm * 50cm ( about 16*20 inches)

Coffee

Another one from my show.
Acrylic on canvas, 40cm*20cm ( about 16 by 8 inches )

My First Show

I did my first own show!
Near the Town Hall of my town, there is an old house used for shows. I rented space there and put my paintings on the wall. It is a strange but exhilarating feeling to have all this space for oneself!
Morephotos to come.

Daisies

Watercolor, 3.5*2.3 inches on a 9*7 inches paper.
Another one.

poppies

Watercolor, 3.5*2.3 inches on a 9*7 inches paper.

I'm working hard for a show and did a bunch of litle watercolors to be framed in standard frames.

Free Burma

free-burma.org

David Krakauer, Klezmer

Another music I discover recently:
David Krakauer

Une autre musique que j'ai découverte récemment dans un article du Monde sur les Transmusicales de Rennes.
Très entraînant!
David Krakauer

Retro pattern- Inspiration

I love this style!

Illustration Friday: Discovery

Just in time my participation to the Illustration Friday of this week "discovery":
pen and coloured pencils.