Welsh corgi commission

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 David Stein, a grand faussaire... He had a billionaire who quite regularly came to him and tell him his dreams, his visions... And Lessard, who was also a great artist not only a faussaire (it takes a lot of talent to be a faussaire, you know...) put the billionaire's vision on big canvases... and that one paid him 100000 $ or 200000 $... I could do the same, given the right conditions. But ou sont les milliardaires d'antan?

Portraits

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