Love Potion

I've finished that painting a few hours before the varnishing. Pheww! Just in time! I've never worked so much, night and day, than in the past weeks. Crazy. You would "know" if you saw my face.

About Love Potion... I need someone to buy it very quickly because it's too big to keep it in my tiny flat lol!

I've got some people interested in it, wanting to reserve it for when they get the money... huhu.
It's not THAT expensive (shrugging)!

Well ok, it is but I used my sweat and blood and life potion (huhu) to make it! :)

Christmas spirit

I thought a design was missing among my dozens of Xmas candle holders !

Love potion.. under construction?

on the canvas yes!
Otherwise, no way.

I hope to have it done for the varnishing. It will be both acrylics and collage.

The canvas is really big (1m15 high), I'm loving bigger stuff (huhu)

When I work, I forget everything.. November life, etc.
Work, sport and time with my babes are the very best medicine to that cold and grey atmosphere.

Anyway, if it goes the way I have it in mind, this will be the central piece of my varnishing. I have still so much to do to organise everything! Arg!

Candies

That will be the last pin-up for the vernissage. It will be so nice once framed! : )

Same mama, same devils ..

Lately, I often tell the devils one day they'll be super proud of their mom...
One day, I'll take them with me to show my paintings in New York and Tokyo (my two main targets! lol).

They always answer "but mom, we're already super proud! "

aww...

Talking of art, Lola is developing a taste for acrylics! She has already a very personal way to use colours and paint!

As for Loup, he a taste for collages ! ... it's very funny, he gotta think a lot before associating "papers". That's very interesting, I must show you his work. I'll add a pic later.

Lollipop

Painting lollipops, I don't care really (wait.. I mean I kinda love it!). I gotta go straight to the point, you see.

Life's too short to be subtle!
Well in my own way, I am though, trust me : )

Pushing doors, putting feet on new lands

On the 9th of December, I will make that vernissage. Yes yes I'll make it.
Been so many years since I've done one.

Michelle and Gwenola are pushing me hard to do it. My official guardian angels. I love them, and I love all my precious friends, from so different backgrounds, that offer me support and love at the moment. That's simply incredible. I feel so lucky.

So.. this vernissage it's for now or never maybe. Life has been so bad lately. I gotta find ways to recover. Painting will help, I am sure of that. I get it running through my veins.

Inspiration's here, inspiration's back... motivation will follow some day.

Just a Cigarette.
A painting I've done during summertime, I was reading in a crystal ball maybe, I don't know.

Gardener's ritual

Woa, i have not left my computer behind me but sitting down to update my bloggie? I thought I'd never make it!

 Just before leaving for Bretonie, I had finished a watercolour painting.


Lovely, pretty one. It was more about spring than summer. Water everywhere.

That was certainly a sign of what we'd get in Bretonie for Summer! grmmmphh

** shaking head, laughing, enjoying every drop of that heavy Bretonish rain **

If you're curious, the whole painting is right there

Dr Candy & Mrs Candles ?

I'm gonna do that. I've been thinking about it since 2 days, since I talked with him and seing my frustration, he adviced me to create my hidden gallery.

What sells the most are on one side my collages (which is very reassuring, I can express myself so much through them), and my cute and adorable paintings. Innocent, a bit funny and just pretty paintings :) I like them, I paint them feeling light and detached. Like a bee around a flower.

But it's very frustrating. For real I don't feel this way all the time, not at all, of course. I need to express more, stuff I might not want to show or sell. Maybe ugly, plain, dark, pornographic or erotic. Maybe Beauty, but not in the cute way.

I will paint sorrow and pleasure with no limits, free from the others' eyes.
I have no idea. I just know I'm taking all my painting stuff to Bretonie to explore that field.

That hidden gallery, these paintings I might not show to anyone, they will bring the balance I need for the rest of my work.
Does that mean any sense to you?
It's very exciting. I have no idea where I'm going with that. A foot on a new planet.

The Gardener's rituals

... is the title of my next paintings series.

Nothing's done yet, but the idea is there.

The title almost guides my pencil and brush.

And it often works this way. I get ideas, sources of inspiration, and suddenly a title come to my mind that will guide my work, give a meaning to it.

There's a lot of construction in the process, but the title is like  the original seed. I find that strange when I think of it. Maybe the visual comes after the meaning, to me. Dunno.
 
The painting will fit the title and not the opposite way to me.

How does it work for other painters, for musicians, for photographers? I wonder.

Differently for sure.

Hunting season

I'm so happy for two reasons. Yes that new collage is done and it breaks my heart to put it for sale!
And then, Martin has installed a new tool in my gallery... when you click on a painting, the quality of the image is truly good (which was not the case before because the image adapted to the size of the screen, or something like that). That is so so cool! : ))

That collage about hunting is supposed to tell a lot.

If you're curious about the content, you get details just here : )

Newly inked

Sunny has made wonderful job on my arms today.
I got the new tattoos I really wanted and even better than I thought. Such an artist !

Sunny worked as fast as she could, for hours. I was totally amazed. You feel the physical energy tattooing requires. It's crazy, physically very intense... And behind you have the concentration and the artistic work.

I got tattoos on both arms. Gotta decorate them more. I'll tell you more about the tats when they are visible. Right now they're healing.
The first arm was fine... but the second... (I'm such a chochotte!)... I felt every needle in the skin. I felt as if my skin had decided to resist, to fight back. Suddenly my skin felt so thick. A thick wall fighting against the needles. And that was painful. Not what Sunny did, but the way my skin was tensed, like under pressure, resisting.

Tonight I'm exhausted, no more physical energy. I wonder if Sunny feels the opposite, as if there had been some kind of energy transfer or something like that. But she worked so hard, I'm sure she must have felt tired from it.

A wonderful experience. With such an artist!

(I'll have more!)




And now... back to healing : )

Gabe will save us all

An angel coming to tell a woman she'll soon be pregnant... That's enough to feed many fantasies huh!

Thank God (actually!) for providing so many lil interesting and often salacious stories!

Gabe and Mary (full painting here)... a couple we never think about. I wanted to make them human. One could imagine I just use simple provocation but that's not true. I don't care, the provocation is so easy. So, not interesting. No one, no god or ideas should reduce men to slaves or should require worship. We are them.

I refuse the holy tale by making it human. I won't believe in holy tales but...
Yes I can believe in desire and love.

We should worship a woman being pregnant from a ghost father (holy spirit?) ... isn't it scary that so many people believe it (including me for a long time) to be so real.

 Brrrrr... makes me shiver how easy we are to be convinced about whatever!

hard working conditions ;-)

Life is so busy, so so busy that despite a hundred of different topics I've in mind, I just can't sit down for my bloggie whenever I'd like.

I've been working on candle holders orders lately, had to finish them quickly. I've several projects in mind to come, paintings and collage... here are 3 project among the dozen that is on papers. Sorry for the bad quality sketches, it's just to share bits of my secret garden with you : )

Of course when there's a barbarian that tries to sabotage everything I start, it's just less easy ;)

French kiss

On the 31st of December, I was working. Sipping champagne of course!
But working, on this painting.

click here

I was so important and symbolic to me, I wanted to finish the year with a painting and started 2011 with a new one. Done. I'm so happy! (dancing around, throwing petals and drinking champ' again!)

I wanted to start the year with something very much into Fantasy art. A woman, not really a mermaid, more like a fish woman... ready to bite (swallow? huhu) a frog... instead of kissing it to get the expected prince charming. That's the whole idea of it. (Don't be fooled girls, it never works this way with princes charming!)

It was my first painting with Conan and Satan around. Hm working conditions might be warmer than usual but not just the easiest! :P

My crystal ball ...

... tells me it's cool to be an artist, it's even MUCH better to make money while being an artist!

So right now I'm working on stuff I had started years ago... to finally be able to get prints and goodies on my gallery.

I've just finished one of these "extra shops", which is made a bit more for the American market (prints on this site will be sent from the USA).




Time to work on other shops, more possibilities.
And I gotta hurry because inside I boil to get back to pure creation!

Some kind of pride

That's really what I feel when I open that new book of paintings and collages that I've just published. A very helpful, and beautiful, tool to "carry" all my work with me and show it around (much better than on a screen). Can you see that devilish pride on thet face below (lol). Not a fake pride either :P

 And when I see all what I've done, and all what every colour, every curve or character mean to me, it makes me wanna work so much harder... give birth to many new creatures, to love them even more with my brushes, to build their fate, their happiness or tragedy. Life.

What a power! .... an artist's illusion or reality?
Probably both.

Other and different books will follow. My New year's resolution! (I had none so far!)

More abandon

This time, abandon to.. dreams and rêveries, warmth, tenderness, affection.
It's more sensuous than I had intended to, but I think really that's part of my painting style, deep in me. And the more I see it, the more I discover many of my favourite themes behind.

Total abandon

I'm working since a few days on a series about abandon, the desire to let yourself follow your own inspiration, desires, sensations.

I'm working on the third one of the series, another one will follow, that's sure. I want to explore abandon every way I can feel it. And I've got so positive feedback about it that of course it's motivating. Yet, the higher motivation, it's the pleasure taken, the feeling I gotta expressthis abandon . The harmony between my hands, heart & mind. Yo do not reach that point everyday, well, I don't .... so, yeah, it feels pretty good :)

My predator

I can't use my wounded finger as well since yesterday, can't stretch it at all but... I managed to finish my last painting! I'm back on the rails, and ready to paint a new world!
I've got what I wanted. I'm pretty happy with it ! So much work involved, you wouldn't believe it :)