MY TECHNIQUE

Softness and finesse

THE PENCIL

When I draw with a pencil or colored pencil the rendering is always very precise.

The pencil allows me to go even further into detail because its lead is made of graphite, an extremely fine pigment. Some people think that these drawings are made on the computer, but no, there are a lot of layers and patience! Perhaps 30 to 50 layers are placed on the tip of a sharpened pencil. I draw lines which in the end do not appear. I have sometimes looked for a total illusion there, using a magnifying glass.

This mastery therefore creates an almost photo-realistic illusion, where digital print could not satisfy a trained eye.

I create them in small, intimate formats to keep close to you.

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THE LINE

With a pencil or a thin brush, I draw a line with "plein et déliés", wich is a calligraphy term meaning "full an loose". This means the line is more or less thick in places.

Like a sound that vibrates in the space of a silent room, a simple line takes on its full interest.

... oriental classic, emptiness is as important as fullness, it brings purity and suggests in some of my works an invisible world which would be populated by energies and luminous beings.

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RUBBED PASTEL

This is what I call my technique which consists of rubbing dry pastel on a surface using makeup brushes.

Pastel looks like mschool chalk, which offers exceptionally bright colors.

I often use raw fabric as a support, which I find warm and which provides a velvety effect.

To begin, I apply pastel powder to the brushes which I rub onto the support, starting with transparent layers. The juxtaposition of these layers allows me to work with subtle nuances of light.
Finally with the pencil I trace lines or areas more intense in color such as the central line of the mouth or the oval of the iris.

Playing on areas of sharpness or blur, the eye can wander through the image sometimes guided by the line, sometimes lost in the vagueness.

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Pastels

Pastel allows this paradox: vibrant and soft colors at the same time
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 A selection of works to illuminate the interior of your home and your inner world.

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