tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27229985016296188252012-01-29T08:52:39.927-05:00Ion Vincent Danuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10699035367214342255noreply@blogger.comBlogger1081100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2722998501629618825.post-30810185889649726192008-01-01T10:56:00.001-05:002008-01-01T18:41:15.675-05:00

Since my energy is limited and since all things end at a time or another, I've decided to abandon (at least for the moment) this blog. Even if there were some favorable comments and some very faithful friends (Thanks a bunch!) there aren't usually more than 12-15 visitors per day. One cannot call this a blatant success... It is not a totally loss since I made some friends and I had some good

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If you like milk in your coffee, you'll like Anna's color: a superbe light Burnt Omber. She is a superbe model, too. Not only beautiful but gifted. There are models whom are beautiful but nor gifted, yes. Models who do not know where to put their hands, who just lay flat on their back (I don't say some foot seen in perspective is not an interesting problem to draw but finally all the rest are

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This is a painting I was commissioned to do by some young friends of mine... I've combined a Québec landscape and the Welsh corgi image (he was the star of the thing; a present for the anniversary of the father who owned the dog...) I've used a lot of "fire orange" and it seems that the father liked the present. Sometimes, I feel like Real Lessard, le québecois who was, along Van Meegeren and

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Do not call for the Firesquad! This is the name of a Daler-Rowney color, a very strong one, a quite devious one... A wonderful one if you come to master it... In this Karin nude I don't really know if I did... But the color is there and I like it. Van Gogh - they say (and he says it himself in one or two letters) loved yellow chrome. Me, I like fire orange or orange fire. Of course, I'm not Van

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This is the Blanchard Park, where I used to come with my friend Clement to draw portraits... When there where no humans willing to pose I usually exerced my brushes on the surrounding landscape. This is one of the results: an acrylic ink and watercolor, on Arches paper. The season was early spring, on a windy, crisp afternoon...

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Why an imaginary landscape when there are plenty of real ones? I don't know. Really. I just feel like "it", sometimes... This is a pretty old one, a 2004 landscape. When I was experimenting a lot (good habit I've kind of lost, for the moment...but it will come again, I hope). I hope also I did not show you this already... I was wondering when it will happen... anyhow, in my opinion it's a nice

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It's not often but it happens... We have the chance to draw couples. This time it was Travis & Jackie. To draw a couple - in the same or almost the same - amount of time as a single nude is not easy. II did my best. The technique is the same: acrylic ink on Arches watercolor paper. What should I say more?

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Nothing more sophisticated that a portrait of one of my "pupils"... To keep it up with the sunny disposition. Acrylic ink and watercolor, of course.Strathmore paper, also.

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Drawn this summer, when it was warm and bright...Right now I look outside at 20 cm of snow and it gives me the chills... for a moment. White is, finally, a beautiful kind of color... This is Samuel, a nice, talkative young fellow. Nothing harsh, nothing sinister, nothing depressive. Simply a sunny portrait. I'll try to keep it that way. Of course, it's an acrylic ink & watercolor on Strathmore

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No more, no less, as Shakespeare said... Just a sunny, vacation like Québec landscape, somewhere near Baie St. Paul (je crois)... In a painter's cuisine this would equivalate to a "soufflé", quelque chose d'aerien, de light, just a quick watercolor to match a beautiful summer day and a sunny disposition. Since outside the winter winds are hauling, as Sting said, it seemed appropriate to encourage

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Well, not really one eyed...But it was a windy day out there, near the Lac des Nations, at Sherbrooke, where I was exercising my trade of public amuser (I'm not sure the term is correct; but how many things am I not uncertain (or is it incertain?) these days? You know already, I think, that I like the redhead (to paint, folks, exclusively to paint...), the auburn (now that's a nice word!)... This

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Most things are nowadays, for me, a kind of...or almost...something. This is "almost" a Minotaur - looks like something like that, anyway - since, technically, a Minotaur is half torro and half human... This one seems more like a torro... I can tell you one thing: it must have some devilish in it because a very nice woman (the wife of a friend where I exposed some paintings) just wouldn't have it

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Since the "Dead fish" post seem to revulse the readers - my hit counter dropped almost dead! - I must do some-thing... So here it is, Gabrielle again, very alive and kicking (even if she SEEMS - only seems! - angry with you, turning his beautiful back to you...) It's a not yet finished painting but a complete drawing - and I'm confuse about the frontier - of 38 cm x 28 cm. You can even buy it...

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No mystery that these days everything I write and do (like, for instance, choosing a reproduction for this post)has some dark touch... Even this 2004 fish looks more dead than normal on that plate... But, what can I do? I am who I am and I do what I do... A very intelligent and perceptive Romanian writer (usually that means that nobody but some Romanians have heard of him...)said once: "Do not

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That's what Eugène Délacroix said: "A painting should be a feast for the eye." There are a lot of painters who agree with that. Some are great names, like Renoir and Matisse, to mention just two. Some are just quasi-anonymous artists, like myself. But I believe it firmly. Why else should you paint if not to create a joy for yourself and for the eventual onlookers? (Of course, things are more

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The title is the approximative translation of a Romanian saying. When you put yourself in the ridicule (or, sometimes, favorable,prestigious) position to talk philosophy to Plato or religion to the Pope... The favorable, prestigious position being when Plato asks for your advice concerning the Ideas or the Pope asks you how he should formulate his next encyclical... Well, let me tell a (short)

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What a nude of mine looks like before I work it over? I already showed you one or two... Here is another one, of a model called Marie Lise, not a perfect one, physically (some small spine defect and getting fatter) but nice and with sad eyes and a nose that French call "un nez retrousé" (snub-nosed?)... In all, a pleasant enough model to draw - and then to paint...Right now, I'm experimenting

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A sample of what I did in "hostile" conditions... I mean, when the model (upon whom I have no control, being just one of the many sketchers...) took "ballet" postures... No comments...Of course, it's an acylic ink + watercolor on Strathomore 300 g.

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Maybe this Nude is not the very first one where I started to mix acrylic inks with watercolor, where I've started to define my technique to paint the nudes... But it's one of the first...Rapid sketching was always, since my childhood, one of my greatest pleasures and if I did not have often the chance to draw after a nude model it's only because there weren't a lot of models in Romania of my

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I suppose that everyone has his nostalgia (usually it is more than one...) One of mine is the nostalgia of my children, when they were still children... Less than 8-9 years old... Especially, I have the nostalgia of my daughter when she was 6-7 years old. Very sweet, still willing to pose for me, sometimes (at least for photos) and still unshamed that I am not either rich nor famous... In fact,

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Not that I want to very much... But, after all, I am a professional visual artist. Capable to do a lot in drawing (story board for cinema included...), painting (portrait, landscapes, nudes, weird stuff. you name it...) or photography and digital art (inclusively combinations of drawing&painting and digital manipulated images...) In a word, I can do a lot of things. I got talent, experience,

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She was a little girl of 12. But when you look at her you wouldn't give her more than 7-8 years old. She was slim (not to say skinny). She had big, blue eyes (beautiful eyes!)and 2 big, too big, front teeth. In fact, she looked just like a skinny, very hungry, nervous she-rabbit. Put some big, grossly rim glasses on her nose and you have almost her portrait true to life... Final touches: a runny

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I don't paint a lot of flowers. Not that I don't like them... It's just that I find people (and nude ladies) much more interesting... But this Irises were different: first of all, they surprised me. I know Van Gogh painted some (probably one of the most famous painting of the National Gallery in Ottawa...) and that's really a major challenge and then, I stumbled over some Irises in the parc of

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A portrait without model to pose... An imaginary portrait... An evasionist portrait... A portrait called "Mustachioed Dracula", in which the author poured out his anger, his anguish, his fear...You can see that painting has a cathartic function, a letting go function, finally, an evasionistic function... It's a 9" x 12" watercolor and acrylic inks on Fabriano 300 g paper. Collection of the artist.

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This is a portrait I did last summer in the main parc of Sherbrooke, Jacques Cartier parc. I confess I like readheads - they are an interesting challenge for a painter. Auburn hair could be quite difficult to paint... Toulouse-Lautrec has a few portraits and nudes with "The Englishwoman from Dover" (the legend says he was totally in love with that one...) Myself, I didn't have the time to fall in

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If caricature means "exaggerated" then yes, one can make a nude AND a caricature in the same painting... I kind of exaggerated a bit, in color, composition and drawing of the background figure... Wasn't something intentional, I do "caricatures" almost without knowing it... It's in my artist blood... As usual, a 9" x 12" watercolor and acrylic ink, on Strathmore 300 g paper. If interested, you

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This is, of course, Jackie, and she had the blues (I don't know if she still has it...) Posing for 10 minutes could be pretty tiring and if you are posing nude, in a provincial town like Sherbrooke, it means you really need the money... I'm just guessing... I've tried to "catch" some of this sadness and, surprisingly, I used more warm colors and not really the blue... It's a watercolor & acrylic

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Do we need, as artists, to experiment? I think we do. Even if it doesn't sell too well, even if it doesn't sell at all... I really don't think selling should be our aim in life... This is a Romanian landscape. The original photo represents a view from Ocna Sibiului, a very old (ancient Roman like...) small village/town near Sibiu... It has some 8-9 salt lakes, one or too so salty you'll be pumped

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Since I'm showing you more than my usual, nice, beautiful, pretty stuff here it is this somewhat weird portrait of a young lady from Romania, the daughter of a friend... She was a very silent creature, gracile, with a long, gracious neck and green-blue eyes... Somewhat weird and not without some (maybe dark) secret... Modiglianesque and dostoïevskian character...It's just a 8" x 11", as usual,

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...some windmills, painted in the same magical forest near Sibiu, Transylvania. That forest really is a very interesting place, where all kind of picturesque characters wander around... Danger and erotica where to be found there... Especially if you are young and full of hormons, such a forrest could be filled with satyrs and fawns and especially with Dulcineas waiting to be liberated... I'm no

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Heck of a title, eh? (the "eh!" is my trying to be very Canadian, eh?) The story is this: when I lived in Magog (a little and very nice town, on the lake Memphremagog, about 30 km from Sherbrooke) I use to go to a small coffee shop downtown... order a coffee and sketch everything in sight, for hours... One day, I've sketched this beautiful young lady, with a very long and gracious neck, which, of

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I don't even know if the word exists, in this form, in English... Maybe it's more like melancholy ? (Well, I checked and it exist; meaning homesick...) In my meaning, it's more like a mellow sadness, a resigned regret that time passes and the youth with it... This watercolor (and acrylic ink) is a landscape of a very special place, for me: it's called something like the Village Technical Museum (

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I think I would need 2 lives to paint and draw everything worth painting in Québec... I suppose it's the same thing with some of its neighbours... Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire...This is a landscpe from Gaspesie, I think (I'm not good with names of places) and those two boat "floating" on dry land catch my eye. It's an acrylic ink and watercolor on strathmore 300 g watercolor paper. CAD 250 if

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I would never understand why people like better "finished" works to sketches! In my opinion (and there are some others, like Delacroix, for instance...) a good sketch IS worth a good painting... I would take every day of the week a small sketch of Rembrandt or Bruegel insteed of 100 big, super-finished paintings of Bougereau & Cabanel.This is a sketch of my daughter (who was posing for a group of

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This is a 2006 somewhat more personal watercolor. It represents my daughter, Ioana, a young lady now, always in a hurry and with very little (or none!) time to pose for her father, the artist... I have to take spy pictures of her - decent ones, of course! - and to paint her after those fugitive, in movement photos... Neither her, nor my other two children, give much attention or thought to my

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It's funny what you can do nowdays, with the digital photography, scanning and such...Since 1998-99 I began to digitally archivate my paintings and drawings... They become, more and more, just pixels on a cd or DVD... A lot of advantages with that: you can have almost instantly the image of your stuff, you can even ameliorate it (usually I don't do more than amelioration of the contrast or a

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I did not post a lot of drawings here... caricatures even less. This is a rapid sketch taken at a show I've participated. A show for artists 50 years old & +, in the basement of Sherbrooke Cathedral. It was the last day of the show & I was cranky since I hadn't sold a thing, not even to cover the registration fee (and there were some nice paintings there)! I kind of resented all the friends and

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This is one of the nudes of Gabrielle (one of the best models I've had...) that I've sent in Romania, to my European agent. Still in sale, I suppose... It's a 9" x 12" acrylics and watercolor on Strathmore 300 g paper. Don't ask me what does mean the Japanese characters... I don't know. But they seemed to be fit there...

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For cantueso, G., moonbeam and all the other kindred spirits who like to assist at the spectacle of the world - especially at the spectcle we, humans, are making of ourselves... A quick watercolor and acrylic ink sketch, no more, no less...

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... if you are an artist, searching for models, during the Quebec winter... when strolling in the park is not a pleasure anymore an artist like me (and my friend clement), trying to find a model, goes to what I call in French "le trou a bouffe" (an approximative translation would be "the fast food pit"...) People are there almost all the time, plenty of involuntary models getting fat with good,

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Since this blog is not anymore only a selling tool (as those of the so called Daily Painters - by the way, I've red in a Georgia O'Keeffe biography about one of her early teachers, william Merrit Chase, who recommended his pupils - in 1907! - to produce at least one canvas a day; nothing new about that... In fact, I remeber it was the slogan of some Ancient Greek or Latin writer - or was it a

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9" x 12", acrylic ink & watercolor on 300 g Strathmore paper; in a North Hatley Gallery right now; CAD 250 + s/h.

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The name is weird, bizarre, eh? the work is also bizarre... Not my usual portraits or nudes... But this is also me... I started this big acrylic painting (36" x 24") in 2005. I've painted and repainted several times and this is the final version (if a suden mood will not dictate other wise...)What does it mean? Well, it's up to you... But my idea, initially, started from those twig and fethers

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Since I'm a perfectionist (I think) I did some small improvements to a landscape I published here at the begining of my blog...

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No comments.(None needed, I think...)9" x 12", acrylics and watercolor on Strathmore 300 g paper.

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I have just read "Da Vinci's code" when I've painted this portrait... Since I also saw "In the name of the Rose", well, it was inevitable to play a bit with esoterism, especially when the two fire trees behind Rose were forming a V sign...For dimension and techniques, the usual...

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Another portrait, the usual dimensions and techniques ( I should began to experiment more with other materials... but if it works, why fix it?) This one is sold.

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Sometimes, our model is a man. This is Karsten, an East-Germany immigrant and a dancer... Nice muscles...It's a 9" x 12" acrylic ink and watercolor on Strathmore 300 g (acid free, of course) paper. I'll sell it for CA$ 250, shipping and handling included.

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In fact, Marie (one of my pupils from last year) wasn't FROM Peru but she worked there so many years that, sometimes, she would prefer to speak Spanish instead of her native French québécois... Exactly the same thing as Yannick... And you see that I'm not afraid of pink! (which could be a very tricky color...)

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A sample of comis-sioned portrait after a photo... I prefer to work from BW photos because their are giving me the major features of the model but allow me to be creative concerning the color...This one is 9" x 12" acrylic ink and watercolor on 3000g Strathmore paper... Contact me if you wish to comission a portrait. I'm open for business...

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I've always liked poppies (I don't know about opium, but poppies have a great color!)My mother-in-law (who's a great lady, even if just a paysant in a village near Sibiu, Romania) do cultivate them for the seeds she puts in cookies and sometimes she breeds some kind of tea, to help her sleep... I took some pictures in her garden and Voilà! here is the acrylic ink watercolor which resulted (one in

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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,

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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.

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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

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

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

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9" x 12" acrylik ink on watercolor Strathmore 300 g paper, one of the 13-14 drawings (or paintings in a raw state?) I did today... Raw, like that, you can have it for $ 100

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That means that this is the 13th painting in a series I did after a model (and a very talented yound lady, at that, with a marvelous skin café au lait...)It's a acrylic ink of about 8" x 11", on Fabriano 300 g acid free paper and it will cost you CA$ 200 to hang it in your bedroom...

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Another girl's portrait... For Melissa I did 2 portraits, one for her, one for me. I give her the choice and this is the portrait I still have (I would have chose it myself...)This is a 9" x 12" acrylic ink & watercolor on Strathmore watercolor paper, 300 g, and if interested just email me and I give you all the details.

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Even if these days were beautiful late summer days - probably not many left - the title is referring to something more simpler...This beautiful young lady is May (or Mai)... I've painted her on a 9" x 12" Strathmore watercolor paper, with acrylic ink and watercolors... And since today was a special day (I've received a grant from the big city of Sherbrooke exactly for a project of mine - already

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... but since my good friend Deborah is curious and asked me to do it, well, I cannot refuse a beautiful woman. So here it is, a previous variant of my last posted landscape. It does not exist anymore, of course, since I paint it over... and sometimes I like variants better than the finished ones...There is something in a painting "a la prima" (the first jet) comme disent mes cousins, les

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This landscape went through so many variants that I've lost count... this is the final (until I got an idea and I change it again...) variant. I hope.It's a 12" x 24" acrylics on canvas. Email me if interrested...

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I still have some work to do before I finish my current painting, a landscape... so, I choose another portrait for you. No joke. A very serious fellow, a québecois born from ex-yugoslave parents... There is a large ex-yougoslave minority, here, in Sherbrooke. The French called them "yougoslaves" but they are a very complex lot: Serbs and Croats, Bosniac Muslims, and so on and so forth... A

Ion Vincent Danuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10699035367214342255noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2722998501629618825.post-33821591361760223272007-09-16T11:14:00.001-04:002007-09-16T11:22:11.099-04:00

Well, folks, today I did not finish yet my painting (I'm working, I'm working...) so I post a self-portrait where me and my old friend Cézanne have collaborated...I hope you'll smile, at least...

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Autumn is in the air... Yesterday started raining and there are plenty of earth and vegetal fragrances... It gives me the creeps (but not in a totally unpleasant way...) So, I've imagined I'm a white horse on a full moon night...This is a 9" x 12" acrylic on cardboard High Art. Email me if interested.Note 20 of September 2007: Sold. Replica could be comissioned.

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There is a close connection between the weather and my portraits: since I work them in the parks of the city I depend on beautiful weather to get models... these days the weather is quite fine, here, in Sherbrooke, almost summertime...This is one portrait I'm proud of. I don't know exactly why, but I like it. 9" x 12" watercolor and some acrylic ink on Strathmore 300 g/140 lbs. watercolor

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Another portrait - this time a bit older (the watercolor as well as the model) of a Sherbrooke inhabitant. An ex-professor at the University, it seems, a very picturesque figure I intitled "Rodrigue, the Cid" in honor of Charlton Heston's movie "The Cid" because the whole portrait had something, let say, "heroic"... Maybe more of a Don Quixotte but still nice...9" x 12" acrylic ink & watercolor

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That's one of the things I did last summer - in fact, a few days ago...As usual, a 9" x 12" acrylic & watercolor on Strathmore acid free paper (300 g) and, also as usual, if interested, give me an email... I promise not to skin you alive...

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I know it's very hard to paint Irises after Van Gogh, but, hey! I did my best...This is a 9" x 12" acrylics and Watercolor on Strathmore acid free 300 g paper. If interested email me... Note: Sorry, folks! Sold. The lady who bought this said she liked it more than the Van Gogh's Irises (another reason was that it wasn't THAT expensive, but shhh! that's a secret...)

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A portrait sketch were I've try to render especially the magic blue eyes...This is, as usual, a 9" x 12" acrylic ink & watercolor, on Fabriano 300 g acid free paper and if interested write me...

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I hope nobody will consider me mean... I'm not, usually... and I'm a large person, too...OK, maybe not as large... Still, I got eyes and they are more cruel than myself. I'm kind of dangerous with a brush in my hand...This is a 9" x 12 " watercolor sketch on Arches 300 g paper. If somebody is interested I'll sell for US$ 60...

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Poetic name, interesting face! Another of my "in the park portrait"... I spend on it probably between 35 and 45 minutes (maybe less... sometimes it depends on the time the "model" has).In a good day, I can make between 5 - 7-8 portraits... 2-3 are usually quite good, some reasonable good and one or two bad straight out...This one is a 9" x 12" (I'm using pretty much the same format; some day, I

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This is the portrait of Tamara, a young girl from Sherbrooke. I have painted her a few days ago, in one of the city's parks.9 x 12 inches acrylic ink and watercolors, on Strathmore watercolor 300 g acid free paper (in fact, all paper I work on is acid free; I'm very careful that my works will last as long as the Piramids...); email-me if interested...

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... This is a watercolor I did today, very quickly, because it was so hot I thought we were in some tropical place, like Florida... where a lot of rich quebequers take refuge during the winter... It was dry almost before I painted it...9 x 12 inches, watercolor and acrylic ink on Fabriano 300 g paper; because it's just a quick sketch and I'm kind of high spirited (no special reason... just alive

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... which is bizarre, isn't it? Well, folks, this is a watercolor I did after a picture I liked very much, a photo of my daughter.When I took the picture she was still my "princess" (she still is, but then it was kind of agreed upon by her, also...) Now, she's big, a college young woman and all... little or no time for his daddy... So, this is personal and a piece of work belonging to my private

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... something a bit older, but of which I'm kind of proud, a lanscape from Waterville, a small town near Sherbrooke where I lived a couple a years back... It's a 24 x 36 inches acrylics on canvas, my old landlord owns it (but I can always make a better replica...)

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... can be, sometimes, quite picturesque and nice to paint... this is a corn storage small house (in Romanian we call it "patul" which is a diminutive for "bed" in English... is like the corn's little bed...) I've painted it after a photo I took in 2004. I liked the rare green color, on a sunny day of September...9 x 12 inches acrylic inks and watercolors, on Fabriano Artist 300 g watercolor

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..."the beautiful province"... that's Quebec, for those who didn't get it yet...Apart from the local patriotism, it's very true. It's a superb country, a country of lacs and forests, of great rivers and nice, gentle hills... I had some hard time, at the beginning, adapting to my new society. But I always loved the Quebec landscapes, enough beautiful landscapes for 2-3 normal painter's lives...

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I always took the greatest pride when somebody (especially somebody I trusted the judgement) told me that I'm a good draughtsman (or drawer or draftsman)... If the Queen of England would ask me (say I have saved her life or something...) how she can repay me, I would tell her: "Make me a "Draughtsman of the Empire"... with a 2000 $ per month retirement fond... A lot better then "Sir" Ion Vincent

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I went on a fishing trip, with 2 friends, in the Northern Québec (far enough to be in the "tundra"); we kind of shivered the nights but the days were superb, almost summer... lots of lacs, fire-treas, rocks and not a soul other than us...I didn't catch a fish but I took a lot of pictures and I painted some watercolors... This is one of them. I kind of like it... something of the scrawny

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I've already told you about my native town... It really has mystery and beauty and a medieval, "Da Vinci Code" kind of scenery...This is a 8 x 12 inches, acrylics on watercolor paper (Arches, I think... I cover it pretty well, I cannot tell which kind...) and if you like it, give me an email...

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I cannot say if the nude is, thematically, my main subject... I don't think so. But I certainly paint a lot of nudes... and still have a lot to paint, I hope.Usually, it happens like this: almost every Saturday, I go to the University of Sherbrooke (where I did study myself) and draw with another 20-25 people after a live nude (usually beutiful)... A "nude session" takes 3 hours of hard work (

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Van Gogh - if you'll visit me often you'll hear that name a lot! - loved to paint "modern portraits" and was all the time in the search (and need) for models...for, he said, "the study of the figure is the most useful of all" (letter to Emile Bernard, 23 of June, 1888). For a couple of years now, I'm doing portraits, the summer, in the parks of the city I live in, Sherbrooke (Québec). I'm doing

Ion Vincent Danuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10699035367214342255noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2722998501629618825.post-4884281059666338672007-08-29T12:01:00.000-04:002007-08-29T12:13:11.394-04:00

We all have our own mythical territories... For Faulkner was that inpronouceble county Ikano....too complicated...For me, it's Sibiu, Romania... (google it, you'll see...)I was born there, lived there most of my life, before imigrating to Canada... It's a beautiful (very) old city (first documentary mention about 1192 or something like that). A lot of medieval building and stuff...This a

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This morning I'm not too smart... I don't know WHY but the "add link" button doesn't seem to fuction...So, I find this solution to direct those of my readers who wish to know more about me (literary stuff, works in progress, thoughts about painters, writers and life, etc.)...I certainly hope you'll wish to know more, I certainly hope you'll liked my paintings enough to want to find more...To do

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I always liked to paint food... being a bit of a Gargantua myself (or Falstaff?)...Like the old Dutch artists (but not so good, yet...) I adore to represent things you can drink or stuff in your mouth... Here I tried to make something decorative from some cantaloups and oignons...This is a small painting, about 7 x 10 inches, acrylics an paper. Could be your for Ca$ 45 (plus a few $ more for

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Sometimes, playing with the materials gives surprisingly good results. Not often, but it happens...In this "Apocalyptical landscape" I've played with different inks (acrylic and non-acrylic) and some acrylic paste... I could not do exactly the same thing EVER, so this is an unique, original piece...About 10 x 14 inches, mixte techniques on High Art cardboard and CA$ 350.

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Bucovina it's the North Eastern region of Romania, more northern than eastern... a beautiful region, with great landscapes and monuments all around (especially the famous monasteries, Voronetz and such...)This is a 8 x 10 inches painting, acrylics on cardboard, and for CA$ 125 it's yours...

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I wish it was the English "Ascot"... I always liked the horses (I'll prove it to you later...) and I'm simply a great fan of Dick Francis (with or without his wife Mary....) But this is the Quebec Ascot, where I live, in the great "cité des rivières" which is Sherbrooke.... A lot of picturesque landscapes, I tell you... and not far away from the US border (about 30 minutes) Vermont, Maine, New

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Well, yes, I also paint still life paintings... I even like it (in fact, if I wouldn't like it, I wouldn't do it...Remember the story with Renoir and his teacher?) This is an acrylic painting, 20 x 20 inches, and if you want to know the price just email me... addenda: Sorry, folks! I just sold it ! But I can still paint a replica (not a copy! I don't do copies... I'm incapable of copying

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... this time, from Dobrodja county, Romania. It was the windmill of the Nun Monastery Cilik Dere, a splendidly situated old Monastery, on a hill covered with old oak trees. If you do not know how Eden looks like, go there... No TV, no telephone, nothing of the modern technology. Just fresh, pure air, bird chirping and meditation... I dream of a castle in a place like that...This is a 8 x 10

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It looks like Neederland but, in fact, it's a landscape from the "Astra" Open Air Museum ( the largest open air Museum in Europe) near Sibiu, Romania. As a child and a teen ager I've spent a lot of time around and still have some pictures of it... When I get nostalgic, I take a photo and I paint... When I'm sad, when I'm happy, when I'm bored... well, I do the same thing... I paint...This is a 8

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Does it happen to you too? Days with no meaning, void, when nothing seem to make sense... when all effort, even painting!, seem pointless, futile... and when all you can muster is "no comment"... This is, as usual, an acrylic ink and watercolor, on Strathmore (acid free) watercolor paper, 9 x 12 inches and Ca$ 300 as price...

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An acrylic ink and watercolor, 9 x 12 inches, on Strathmore watercolor paper (no acid there),Since in my book this nude is a "sonderklasse" (exceptional class) so, if somebody wants it, it will cost Ca$ 300.

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This is a 9 x 12 inches acrylic ink and watercolor on Strathmore watercolor paper and I would sell it for CA$ 250. Personally, I do not think classical proportions must be respected IN SPITE of the expressivity. In my book, I'll take expressivity any day of the week... I hope you do also... Here is a nude which doesn't have the exact proportions but, in my opinion, does not lack a certain

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