
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Friday, December 21, 2007
Anna

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 flat...) So, when you have a model like Anna, you thank God for his mercy (or generosity, whatever) and draw...and paint... I would say such models, rare, are a blessing and get me inspired. I hope you'll think the same think looking at my painting (or drawing, whatever). As usual, it's a 9' x 12' Strathmore paper, acrylic ink and watecolor.
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Welsh corgi commission

Friday, December 14, 2007
Orange Fire

Even if I will cut both my ears and even do a Bibitt thing, I won't succed in egalizing Van Gogh posthume fame. People are kind of accustomed with all possible atrocities, after the 2 world wars, a Holocaust or two, not to mention the more recent wars and atrocities. A cut ear AND a suicide will bring you, MAYBE, a small article in a local newspaper (about the same attention Van Gogh ear got in Arles). So I better keep my ears and continue to love fire orange... At least, the possibility is not totally excluded I'll "fire"up the heart of some collector...
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Sherbrooke landscape

Saturday, December 8, 2007
Imaginary landscape

Thursday, December 6, 2007
Travis & Jackie

Labels:
acrylics,
double nude,
drawing,
rapid sketching
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Nelida of Ecuador
Monday, December 3, 2007
Just a sunny portrait...

Labels:
art,
Gens de Sherbrooke,
painting,
portrait,
watercolor
Saturday, December 1, 2007
Just a sunny landscape

Labels:
acrilic ink,
Caraibes,
Cuba,
global warming my arse,
Miami,
Québec,
Shakespeare,
Sting,
sunny landscape,
watercolor
Friday, November 30, 2007
One eye Sarah

Wednesday, November 28, 2007
The almost Minotaur

Saturday, November 24, 2007
Very Alive Nude!

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...
Labels:
acrylics,
art,
beautiful young women,
etc.,
Gabrielle,
great arse,
no dead fish,
very alive NUDE
Friday, November 23, 2007
Dead Fish

Labels:
acrylics,
artist life,
depression,
painting,
still life
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
A Feast for the Eye

This nude I post here is an small experiment in overlayered textures, a decoration experiment, if you want. Acrylics, of course.As always, I hope you'll like it. It's intended to be a feast for the eye...
Monday, November 19, 2007
To sell cucumbers to the gardener...

And, folks, Michel des Marais, nick-named The "Prince of the Sheep" bought the my above reproduced Portrait of a Sheep! I wasn't expensive, of course, me not being the Prince of anything (and owning, at the time, a 12 years old small Mazda 323) but still: to have The Prince of the Sheep buying from you a Sheep Portrait... not bad, not bad... So that's about it. One of my happy moments... Someday, when I'll be the Prince of something, maybe I can go arround in a new Roadtrack motorhome, doing the art symposiums in the vast Quebec or even in the even more vaste Canada. When I'll arrive in the US (Taos, New Mexico), I'll consider myself the Prince of Everything...
Friday, November 16, 2007
Raw Nude

Right now, I'm experimenting with mixing acrylics, watercolors and oil pastels (I made a hole in my budget and bought a few Rembrandt and Holbein oil pastels) but the results aren't yet that conclusive (they usually aren't at the beginning... You can see one sample at my other site "Danu's Small World" This combination, acrylic colors and inks, watercolors and oil pastels (or dry pastels - but with then it's a bore to fix...) is a very promising one and I think Degas would have loved it. I often fantasize what some great artists like Manet, Renoir, Monet, Cézanne or Van Gogh would have done with today art materials... acrylics especially...
Monday, November 12, 2007
Bloody allegory...

Sunday, November 11, 2007
2005 Nude...the beginning...


Saturday, November 10, 2007
Another nostalgia drawing...

Labels:
art,
daughter,
drawing,
nice funny girl,
nostalgia,
pencil sketch,
portrait,
sketching
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
I take comissions... I sell paintings...

Labels:
acrylics,
art,
artiste maudit,
cats,
comission,
eyes,
la bohème,
multiple talents,
visual arts,
women
Monday, November 5, 2007
Casandra's story

Labels:
acrilic ink,
acrylics,
art,
immigrants,
painting,
Paris,
portrait nice funny girl,
watercolor
Sunday, November 4, 2007
Irises 2

Friday, November 2, 2007
Another type of portrait...

Labels:
acrylics,
anguish,
art,
catharsis,
evasionism,
painting,
portrait,
watercolor
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Marie Lou, the redhead

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 love - and neither did I have the inclination (being shamefully monogame - almost 26 years of marriage with the same woman...) but I liked her. Technically, no different than most of my stuff... I should maybe change the materials...?
Labels:
acrylic ink,
art,
drawing,
nice funny girl painting,
portrait,
Toulous-Lautrec,
watercolor
Monday, October 29, 2007
The nude as caricature

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 know were to find me...
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Jackie has the blues...

Labels:
acrilic ink,
acrylics,
art,
nude,
painting,
watercolor
Friday, October 26, 2007
An experiment...

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 out like a quark and you have to be VERY CAREFUL and to moove VEEERY slowly in it, otherwise you'll risk to drown, face down, like a coackroach on his back which cannot turn... (Technical details: 8" x 11" acrylics and watercolors on paper)
Labels:
art,
experiment,
Landscapes,
Ocna,
painting,
Romania,
Sibiu
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Miss T

Labels:
acrylics,
art,
Dostoïevsky,
funny girl,
Modigliani,
painting,
portrait,
weird
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Waiting for Dan Quixote...

Monday, October 22, 2007
Modiglianesque...

Saturday, October 20, 2007
Nostalgia

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 (whatever!) and it's situated in a large forrest near the city of my childhood and youth: Sibiu, in Romania. A great place with a few lakes and a lot of fire trees and oaks, etc. I've spent a lot of time wandering about that forest, in the summertime... Of course, in my nostalgic memories, it is even more beautiful than this painting...
I don't know why but it sems I'm not able to upload an image anymore... I'll try again later... Sorry, folks!
Friday, October 19, 2007
Quebec landscape

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 somebody is interested...
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Sketching could be fun!

This is a sketch of my daughter (who was posing for a group of my drawing friends) in acrylic ink where I used as instrument not only the pen but also the "pipete" (the device used to draw and drop ink from the bottle) and a medium brush. On watercolor paper, of course (otherwise imposible to obtain these textures...) I kind of like it myself...
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
More personal stuff...

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 paintings... Nobody's a prophet in his/her family, eh?..
Monday, October 15, 2007
Digital variants...

The mean me...

Labels:
art,
drawing,
Gens de Sherbrooke,
Van Gogh
Sunday, October 14, 2007
A recent nude of Gabrille

Saturday, October 13, 2007
Another "Fast Food pit" sketch
Friday, October 12, 2007
Fast food can be good...

Thursday, October 11, 2007
The Phoenix Bird of Suffering

This is called "The Phoenix bird of Suffering" and it echoes with a post on my other blog (http://ivdanu.worldpress.com) where the title was " The permanence of turmoil"...
Labels:
art,
non-figurative art,
painting,
Phoenix bird,
suffering,
surrealism
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
No comment nude

9" x 12", acrylic ink & watercolor on 300 g Strathmore paper; in a North Hatley Gallery right now; CAD 250 + s/h.
Monday, October 8, 2007
Love Dream Catcher

What does it mean? Well, it's up to you... But my idea, initially, started from those twig and fethers etc. things that native americans call dream catcher or nightmare catcher... It evolved in a smaller version and then in this one...
Improved landscape

Since I'm a perfectionist (I think) I did some small improvements to a landscape I published here at the begining of my blog...
Saturday, October 6, 2007
Friday, October 5, 2007
Esoteric Rose

For dimension and techniques, the usual...
Labels:
art,
Gens de Sherbrooke,
painting,
portrait,
watercolor
Thursday, October 4, 2007
Sabrina

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.
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
A male nude, Karsten...

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.
Monday, October 1, 2007
Marie de Peru

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...)
Labels:
acrylic ink,
art,
commisioned portrait,
watecolor
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