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...
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 (exhausting!). I do about 12-15 drawings a session, working with acrylic ink and, usually, a pen or a fine brush. At home, I study the drawings, I choose the best (not more than 5-6) and work some more hours on them, using watercolor or/and acrylic ink, pastels or acrylics. Some of the resulting nudes are good, spontaneous stuff, ready to enchant some rich (or even modest, but refined) collector... This is a 12 x 9 inches acrylic ink & watercolor on Strathmore watercolor paper (always acid free) and anyone with US$ 200 can have it (plus the s/h).
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 it with a friend, Clement Bolduc (he's drawing with sanguine and pastels, me, I'm working with acrylic inks and watercolor). We kind of complete each other, him doing more the "traditionalist" portrait and me, more the "caricatural" (exaggerated) one...But, judging by this "sample", you can see that I'm not UNKIND to my models...... and YES, I DO TAKE COMMISSIONSContact me on my email, send me a photo and I'll do my best for you... For CA$ 50, you'll have an acrylic ink & watercolor portrait of 9 x 12 inches, on acid free Strathmore or Arches watercolor paper, about the same as this one... I won't work more than 2 hours on a $ 50 portrait but it will be a nice, good portrait....And if you want to see more portraits of mine, go to:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNnSyrGxeTI
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 Hamshire... This is a 9 x 12 inches acrylics on canvas; contact me if intererested...
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... 
