Sometimes everything seems to fall in place. An afternoon, some pastels, a sheet of paper and some feverish time. Squint: the form will get more precise. I could talk a lot more about it and her, we […]
No, it’s not a movie 🙂 I have a difficult relation with social media and I certainly don’t use them as I should. I sketched that pose on wrapping paper in a few minutes, posted it without thinking in […]
I drew this on the Eurostar, in business class, how classy. I could feel the grey blue suits thinking “what the hell is he doing here?”. It was way too early to think so I just drew how I […]
The more I draw that series, the more I like it 🙂 The challenge here is to draw fast but accurate, animated and yet like frozen in time. Yes it’s raw, crude, it’s not for everyone and probably not […]
The more I draw these sketches, the more it becomes a series, a theme, an obsession. That sketch will go on canvas and I plan a series of those. Unsellable but I don’t care.
The hardest and yet most satisfying form of drawing. It’s an immense ocean of work, the never ending humanity. I love the instant sketch, catching something. “L’art du portrait m’intéressait peu. Nos portraits romains n’ont qu’une valeur de […]
Shibari III A tough one, how to tell movement from volumes… A4 graphite and ink, 260g acide free paper. 162 likes on FB, god I’m so vain…
Nap time Always been fascinated by sleeping (or else) people. I have often drawn some models who were delighted to just have a nap at home 🙂 Like her. If […]
Heroin Not apologizing. I know it’s not for everyone but, beyond the pose, I like her hair, her eyes, the ingenuity. Charcoal, chalk 45×55 cms. 60$ free shipping […]
Master Girl That drawing is special to me. It has attracted quite a lot of attention along the years, including Singapore (circa 2004) at a time when the island wasn’t so relaxed with nudity. I was so naive… […]
It’s Japanese, it’s centuries old, it’s a 5 minutes pose… Yes it’s challenging. The quick sketches have that flavour of emergency which fits her moment so well (at least IMHO). Very quick underlying graphite, ink pen and watercolor. […]
The first of preliminary sketches for a wider format. It’s a quick graphite sketch with washes of ink (unforgiving material…) I liked the way the light bounces on her belly, it’s always about the light and the story it […]
2018 will remain for me the year I chose art above anything else. It’s time to start 2019 and partly switch to canvas and acrylics (can’t wait). It will productive as I intend to launch myself in work. […]
I loved that guy. 3 years. That day, I drew what had always fascinated me, his eye… Sharp, nearly hard, going deep into things, I would have loved to meet him. RIP
There is little need to explain here. Elvis says it better: Just like a willow We would cry an ocean If we lost true love And sweet devotion I may try it on canvas one day but as […]
This an oldie. I have kept it for years and she travelled with me in various tubes and folders. She would come at night or during the day, even after having posed for one the several schools and studios […]
My step father, Lucien, “Lulu”, died in the night two days ago, while I was utterly drunk, reduced to a point in the void… It’s a weird feeling to know that my boozy weedy sensation of imminent death may […]
“Two extraordinary things can happen to a painter in the 20th century: being spanish and being named Dali”. S.Dali. That quick self-portrait is a master piece. Impeccable structure: don’t look for “mistakes” there is none. The real sense of […]
I draw with very basic materials, charcoal, kraft or white paper (although of a good quality, acid free, etc.), ink, graphite, all cheap and very common. They’re also tough materials if framed properly. Of course drawings live better and […]
Selling on eBay is rough. It’s the equivalent of playing in the streets for musicians. 10£. Yes. When I used to do art markets, in Paris mostly, there was always the suspiscion that the sales were partly triggered by […]
I wanted to pay hommage to the Sketch Grunts… I called them in French “les petits grognards du crobard” (it’s a complex play on words, a poem by Paul Fort on Verlaine’s funerals by Georges Brassens mixed with the […]