Saturday, September 29, 2007

Standing Nude


It's curious but the rejection does you good, sometimes... I feel more free now than before, I don't have to post only (or mostly) painting or drawings I've completed recently, I don't have to care anymore about SELLING or doing SELLABLE paintings (I won't starve anyway...) to please a group like the Daily Painters Gallery (85%-90% of them being commercial artists and profit oriented; I always had troubles in this direction... too wild, I suppose...)

Sorry for the introduction: I had to get it out of my system since, finally, it hurt a bit...


This nude (a 2005 nude) is painted in an altogether another set of colors. I don't feel myself obliged to respect the real colors, the LOCAL colors. In fact, I try to be free, as free as possible, in my life and in my art. If I'm mainly a figurative artist it is because I need, as most of us, visual and emotional stimuli. And it's understandable why so many abstract painters did killed themselves (Nicholas de Staaël, Mark Rothko etc.) But that's a very serious subject and one that needs a lot more studying than a simple Nude post... So, enjoy the nude!

Friday, September 28, 2007

Vanessa

This is a 9" x 12 " acrylic and watercolor on Fabriano paper (300 g). .I hope you like it. I do.And, by the way, today I got the answer from the administrator of the Daily Painters Gallery. With a type letter, without nothing specific, they rejected my application to their famous site... Well, well... I suppose it's their right to do so. As it is mine to say that, in a way, I'm glad. A lot of ultra-commercial, non original painting on their site... some good painters, although. Anyway, it's now a closed subject and their rejection is their loss, not mine. I am a daily painter in my own right and it's not them who paid the bills until now... So, to heck with them and I'll continue to paint and to post my paintings here (and on the others blogs of mine, "Van Gogh and I" (at http://ivdanu.wordpress.com/) and "Danu's small world"(at http://iondanu.wordpress.com/)

Gabrielle, the honeyhair beauty...


There is a time in the life of a young woman when she is coming to bloom...

Well, here she is: Gabrielle (around 18 yeas old; I'm slick, am I not?) with long, flame orange hair, posing with a nonchalance that would have pleased no doubt Renoir, Degas or Matisse (and I've cited 3 of the best nude painters ever...)

This is a 9" x 12" acrylic ink and Watercolor on Strathmore (I like the texture of their 300 g paper). If you want ot buy, you'll have to talk to my European exclusive agent, Anamaria Borlan (write me and I'll give you the address...)

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Tundra


In ten years I was but once fishing in the Quebec tundra. It was an unforgettable experience and I did 2-3 watercolor and a lot of photos... No fish was catch by me, personally... This is what I've done after one of those photos, with my friend's Stephan silhouette in the foreground (I still have to paint another 20-30 landscapes)...

It's a 8" x 11" acrylics and watercolor on Fabriano 300 g paper. contact me if interested...

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Pierre


Some week-ends, we gather to the house of one of us and we draw each other (no nudes, for God's sake! we are all over 40, say 50 years old!) For the nudes we have to go to the University of Sherbrooke were they organize a weekly "dessin d'après model vivant"...

This is Pierre, a 12" x 9" acrylic on Fabriano 300 g watercolor paper. Of course, I worked some more on the initial drawing. Usually, people aren't interested in buying other people's portraits (even masterpieces, ha,ha) but if you are an exception to the rule just give me an email...

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Nude Burnt Omber


Today I've teached and had no time to paint anything so I'll entertain you with an older nude (also kind of "raw" - since it was done in exactly 10 (ten) minutes... The last two I've posted were also "raw" and maybe not so good... Even a daily painter has his/hers bad days...

I post this especially (but not exclusively) for my friend Gene from Spain and I hope he (and you) will like it better. Unfortunatelly for my dear collectors, this one is already sold... As usual, it was a 9" x 12" acrylic ink on Strathmore 300 g paper.

Monday, September 24, 2007

Nathanie


Funny girl, Nathanie... During my work to do her portrait, she tried to convert me to Jehova's Witnesses...

Since I did not put more than 25-30 minutes to draw/paint her, she didn't have, really, the time to convert me... Nice try, anyway... I suppose that more the converted is a sinner, the greater the merit of the converter...

As usual (I'm a man of constant habits, another difficulty in being converted: stuborn as a mule...) a 9" x 12" acrylic ink and watercolor, on Strathmore 300 g paper. If somebody is interested, email me, I am a lot more easy to convince with a checkbook...

Young man punk style...


This is a 15" x 11" acrylic ink and watercolor on Fabriano 300 g paper. Email me if interested (though I doubt...)

Sunday, September 23, 2007

Another raw one...


Exactly the same thing, apart a new position of the model...