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!