2020 was what it was. Thanks for all the messages of sympathy. After the mourning, let’s stay focused. I wish you the best year to come, for you and your loved ones. Now…
Hello all 🙂 It’s a large pastel painting, at least for me. It irradiates a good mood in the studio, colors can do many things, heal, scare, I guess this one creates a good mood, which is […]
Only You… All of You… It may not be for everyone but hey, there will quieter drawings soon, working on it. However, the pose came like that, control and good taste are overated. Pastels Sennelier and Faber […]
You don’t have to be rich To be my girl You don’t have to be cool To rule my world I feel very blessed some days. There isn’t much to tell here but maybe that being admitted […]
The bedroom… It’s an old theme but not less enjoyable. I kept the writing quite simple, without useless details, between the anecdote (the moment) and maybe something a bit symbolic (wow big word, but yes) of all these moments […]
Sometimes you just want to contemplate but I don’t watch properly without some paper. The hardest part was to keep her still ! That intimacy, that trust and a light drawing as a result, a good day. 60×40 cms, […]
A strange story with that drawing, many people love it and so far noone has bought it. It happens: one drawing waited 20 years to find his new home 🙂 Anyway I like that drawing. I loved the moment, […]
The new series 😉 Between the model, the drawer and the spectator, everybody becomes a voyeur but in a fun way and the drawer takes the blame… 😉 win win.
Princess… Once in a while you produce a drawing painting, whatever the name, that is like a milestone. This takes place in a series I called “Goddesses” (working on it), well, now there is princess among them… […]
A nude drawing but it’s not a nude :)) I love hands. They talk so much, they can do so much. It was quite spontaneous, dealing with the skin, the light, the materials, the forms… 40×60 […]
I look up to them. One day I devoted myself to Artemis, I kinda neglected her and a few very low income years followed… Each of these drawings is for her and her friends 🙂 Many more to come. […]
… but love still I admit it’s not for everyone. Some will see the love beyond, beneath the rough, some won’t… Some moments, some poses provide with a sort of balance, an harmony. Beyond the anecdote, I […]
I grew up with images of Lautrec, poems of Beaudelaire and now in London I watch all the traces of that gone time, the little corners that tell the Industrial Revolution, smog and above all satin and lace, lingerie… […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]