Figure drawing is a challenge, every time.

Session de modèle vivant, un défi, toujours.

My first award! I had to savor it for a few days before passing it on. This award was given to me by Alex, with some indications “I need to pass this award on to five people, post on their blog to let them know I left this award, and then I need to answer a list of questions in ONE word.”

1. Where is your cell phone?
2. Your hair?
3. Your mother?
4. Your father?
5. Your favorite food?
6. Your dream last night?
7. Your favorite drink?
8. Your dream/goal?
9. What room are you in?
10. Your hobby?
11. Your fear?
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years?
13. Where were you last night?
14. Something that you aren’t?
15. Muffins?
16. Wish list item?
17. Where did you grow up?
18. Last thing you did?
19. What are you wearing?
20. Your TV?
21. Your Pets?
22. Friends?
23. Your life?
24. Your mood?

25. Missing Someone?

26. Vehicle?

27. Something you’renot wearing?
28. Your favorite store?
29. Your favorite colour?
30. When was the last time you laughed?
31. Last time you cried?
32. Your best friend?
33. One place that I go to over and over?
34. Facebook?
35. Favorite place to eat?

My answers are on the top of the page, one sketch, one word. One word is difficult! Now the 5 names, that is an other challenge, there are many people who inspires me and have been so supportive. Alex is already taken, I would have choose him for several reasons: amazing portraits, generosity in giving his portraits, also the fact that he is working in a non related art field.

kazumiwannabe for her audacity, she draws what’s on her mind and she has a french touch that I like, je me demande pourquoi?

Aletha for her art, for her way of talking about it, for her acute eye

Gabrielle for her poetry, her kangaroos and other fun exotic pets, and the way she writes about autism, a must to read.

makanaibio for her love of good bread and good food, after reading her I started my journey in home made bread.

my french kitchen for all her blogs, her art, her cooking, her pictures, her text, her photos…

When I looked at this cat, I thought “why does he looks so worried?” Why do I worry so much? What is the purpose for worrying? So as usual when I have to much questions or worries I draw.

Pourquoi ce chat a l’air si préoccupé? Une fois le dessin fini, cela m’a frappé. Pourquoi je me fais du soucis? Quel est le but de se faire du souci? Alors quand trop de questions ou trop de soucis, je dessine.

Berlin Wall

Can a wall stands without doors? No, it will always collapse.

Remembrance day

The eleventh hour, on the eleventh day of the eleventh month…do we remember?

La onzième heure du onzième jour du onzième mois…on se souvient?

Childhood was the October theme for il studio . French and Belgian comic book characters. From left to right: Babar, Obelix, Asterix, Gaston’s laughing seagull, Tintin, Capitaine Hadock, Gaston (sleeping), Lucky Luke (with no cigarette as per the law asked), Jolly Jumper (the horse), le petit Nicolas, Rantanplan , Gaston’s cat, Bill (the dog), Boule (the little boy) and Milou (Snowy). I still read them with pleasure.

Enfance, le thème d’octobre au studio. Si vous ne les reconnaissez , de gauche a droite, Babar, obelix, Asterix, la mouette rieuse de Gaston, Tintin, Capitaine Hadock, Gaston faisant la sieste, Lucky Luke sans sa cigarette tel que demandé par la loi, Jolly Jumper son fidèle compagnon, Le petit Nicolas, Rantanplan, le chat de Gaston, Bill le cocker, Boule et Milou. Je les lis encore avec plaisir.

“J’ai mal” means ” I am in pain”. For a lecture on chronic pain.

A perfect day. Lapiz lazuli sky, stained glass of  leaves, walking and being soaked in gold light.

Une journée parfaite. Le ciel  lapiz lazuli, les vitraux de feuilles, je marche et je m’imbibe d’or.

Like a runner likes to run I like to draw. The act of drawing;  acknowledging  this made me draw more, draw without questions. I draw from magazines, from tv, from real, from imagination. It does not matter anymore where it is as long as it  catches my eye.

J’aime dessiner, comme un coureur aime courir. L’acte de dessiner; et le reconnaissant cela m’a permis de dessiner sans questionnement. Je dessine d’après des magazines,  la télé, du réel, d’imagination. La source n’est plus importante maintenant si mon oeil y est attiré.

le passe-muraille

Looking for the English equivalent of  ” passe-muraille” I found: a theater in Toronto , a book by Marcel Aymé and a film from the book, but no good translation,” The walker-through-walls”  sounds a bit long.

La traduction est un art difficile si non impossible. J’ai entendu “traduction=trahison”. Comment rendre l’athmosphère évoquée par “le passe-muraille” sans avoir à expliquer le livre, le film…