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SURF THROUGH LIFE –

parisdreamtime art blog Paris — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:15:01 +0000

a page from a studio sketch- and colorway booklet: Alizarin Crimson and French Ultramarine Watercolor meets Magenta and Yellow Ochre Acrylic color

Watercolor, Acrylic paint and medium, ink pen

Class Photo – commission illustration work

parisdreamtime art blog Paris — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:15:59 +0000

This is a commission work I did this week, a “class photo”, aren’t they cute?

illustration "class photo" - 13 x 18 cm Arche paper, inkpen, fun, inspiration, watercolor:)

The Tree’s Secrets

parisdreamtime art blog Paris — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:00:49 +0000

The Trees Secrets - pencil drawing in little Moleskine 9 x 14 cm

The Tree by Anne Kingsmill Finch

Fair tree! for thy delightful shade
‘Tis just that some return be made;
Sure some return is due from me
To thy cool shadows, and to thee.
When thou to birds dost shelter give,
Thou music dost from them receive;
If travellers beneath thee stay
Till storms have worn themselves away,
That time in praising thee they spend
And thy protecting pow’r commend.
The shepherd here, from scorching freed,
Tunes to thy dancing leaves his reed;
Whilst his lov’d nymph, in thanks, bestows
Her flow’ry chaplets on thy boughs.
Shall I then only silent be,
And no return be made by me?
No; let this wish upon thee wait,
And still to flourish be thy fate.
To future ages may’st thou stand
Untouch’d by the rash workman’s hand,
Till that large stock of sap is spent,
Which gives thy summer’s ornament;
Till the fierce winds, that vainly strive
To shock thy greatness whilst alive,
Shall on thy lifeless hour attend,
Prevent the axe, and grace thy end;
Their scatter’d strength together call
And to the clouds proclaim thy fall;
Who then their ev’ning dews may spare
When thou no longer art their care,
But shalt, like ancient heroes, burn,
And some bright hearth be made thy urn.

Try to draw your cat not sleeping…oh dear! This is KNUT (pronounce cnute:)

parisdreamtime art blog Paris — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:00:43 +0000

KNUT - inkpen-sketch in little moleskine sketchbook

2011 / 2012 …..Before and After……

parisdreamtime art blog Paris — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:45:52 +0000

Before…

Before ....Ink drawing in Moleskine Sketchbook

And after dressing up:)

and after dressing up - Ink drawing in Moleskine Sketchbook

Hey girls, need a new pair? (n°2) – shoes & other accessories -fashion illustration

parisdreamtime art blog Paris — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:00:34 +0000

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Hey girls, need a new pair? - watercolor painting, fashion illustration, seen in Vogue Paris

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Hey girls, need a new pair (no.2) – Work in Process

parisdreamtime art blog Paris — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:45:22 +0000

For the girls: Shoes, Perfumes, Jewellery - watercolor, ink

Working on this fashion illustration, for now I added typo with computer, but I’m thinking about doing some calligraphic writing to enhance graphic character of this painting….will have to learn more about it.

“When did you take up painting?” – early memories…. a letter to a friend

parisdreamtime art blog Paris — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:45:56 +0000

Early Memories - Ink drawing in my journal - click on the picture, if you really want to see it "big"

Me at age….almost 1 ? On old photos I find that I looked like a Mini-Sumo….well, babies often do, no?

in a letter to a friend:

…………….”This morning I was writing my journal, in bed, while playing with one of the cats, and drinking Coffee, lately I have taken up journaling again and it soothes me to do it in the morning.

I have been thinking for some time now of how to do a sort of curriculum vitae in images if I had time lol (makes me laugh) and this illustration could be an adequat answer to the question: since when do you paint?
or: when did it all begin?….
It is a bit provocative and really done quickly and without thinking, but that’s what I like about it,
cause it’s all about getting messy, too, isn’t it? – I could have drawn babypoop in, too. I’m not sure my parents let me play with ink at that age, but I think other things like water, jam, earth, (poop?) have served…………………………….”

Anyone else out there, obsessed with paper ?

parisdreamtime art blog Paris — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:45:27 +0000

A quiet corner in my father's garden, summer last year.... - Watercolor, ink, on 400 g Hahnemühle Paper

This morning, while frantically rummaging through some more or less new sketchbooks, I found this Hahnemühle Watercolor sketchbook, with very thick paper, which I love and completely had forgotten about, and two or three paintings I did during the summer vaccation last year in my dad’s garden….

I admit it. I am obsessive-compulsive with paper, especially sketchbooks, but paper in general. I’m always sketching, every day,, AND I’m always buying new sketchbooks before the old ones are full. Hmm. Confession time. November. LOL. Tell me that I’m not the only one…

winter coming

parisdreamtime art blog Paris — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:45:26 +0000

working on a new project, winter is approaching, darkness begins at around 5, we need light.

Autumnal reflections - watercolor on paper

I am working on a new project, winter is approaching, darkness begins at around 5, we need light.

Autumnal reflections - Watercolor on paper