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.

hands

This blog show different artists through their hands and their work.
I send mine too, as shown below.
It is an original and interesting way of displaying artist's work.

5.5 Designers

On this site , in projects, then "ouvriers-designers", they show a project done with workers of a famous french china manufacture. They let strange things happen at different times in the manufacturing process. I love the resulting mad objects.

Book cutting sculptures

Georgia Russel cut books and make surprising aerial and fragile sculptures with them.
I think I wouldn't lend her a book!

Strange way to blog

http://noonebelongsheremorethanyou.com/

is a blog manually written with a whiteboard eraser.
Strange!

meme

Some time ago A long time ago I was tagged by Marie-Laure. I had 5 unknown things about me to say in my blog. Sometime later, Lesly tagged me on a similar meme, with 7 unknown things.
Hereafter is the result.
I don't dare tagging anybody, having spent too much time to answer, I'm sure the whole Web has done a similar meme. But I reserve the right to imagine a new one...

Music

In the meantime, here is a singer I love: Rose.
I love her songs.
2 titles to be listen to at:
Rose's site

Rose est une chanteuse française que j'ai découverte il y a peu grâce aux blogs. J'aime beaucoup la mélancolie de ses chansons.
2 tites à écouter sur: Le site de Rose

Take No Oujo 2 finished

Here is the final version of "Take No Oujo"



Acrylic on canvas, 100*80cm, about 40*31 inches.

A beautiful exhibition

Well, nearly a month without posting! Big ISP problems following a vacation... Murphy's Law is working well!
In the meantime I had the opportunity to visit the "Sargent-Sorolla" exhibition in Paris. (I'm linking to the Thyssen Museum site in which some of the paintings are different but the site is better organized that the Petit Palais site ) .Really impressive! I didn't know Sorolla, but Sargent is a big favorite of mine, with some of my favorite paintings included, especially Lady Agnew of Lochnaw.
The jssgallery is an extraordinary ressource on the web for Sargent.
Sorolla has some extraordinary paintings too. I prefer his outdoor scenes to his portraits, however.
It is really different to look at a painting in real life and to look at a reproduction in a book. I especially admired the fluid brushworks that cannot be seen in the reproductions.
By the way, they sold a beautiful exhition catalog:

Sargent et Soralla
49 euros
Editeur : Paris-Musées
Publication :15/2/2007
ISBN : 9782879009926
336 pages

Sometimes they are not very good, but this one is really interesting with a lot about the artists lifes.

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.

No more realism

I have decided to change my painting style.
No more realism for me! From now on, I'm doing digital abstracts!
This is the first I did:




You can click on the image to have access to the whole gallery of my new digital abstracts!

Bamboos finished ( I think )

Acrylic on canvas, 46*38 cm, 18*15 inches.
I have found the japanese name "Take No Oujo" which means, if the translator is right, "Princess of the Bamboos". I hope it does mean that.
Now I'm going to work on the second painting of this series, for the same show, a 80*100 cm, about 31*39 inches.

Interlude

Before putting on my blog new photos of the wip painting, here is a way to restore deleted photo from a camera card after having erased them.
It proves useful sometimes!

I once lost all the new photos on my PC recently, after having deleted them from the camera card.
After some research on the web, I found this tool:
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
which is a free photo recovery tool.
I recovered almost all of my lost photos with it.
In fact, photos are not really erased from the card. It is just that the card "table of contents" is erased.
New photos will fill the space on the disc, crashing the old and creating new entries in the "table of content".
So it is very important not to take new photos before doing the recovery, to be able to recover most of the data on the card.

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.