Series of mini portraits

    

With these series of mini portraits, I am trying different ways, markers, pastels, ink and brush. The goal is to simplify, to get the portrait in a few essential lines.

Avec ces séries de mini portraits, j’essaie différentes manières, feutres, pastels, encre et pinceau. Le but est de simplifier, de faire le portrait en quelques lignes essentielles.

Post-it portraits

 

It’s like jogging, but for the mind. I draw  a series of portraits of the same person on post-it notes. The small size forces me to simplicity, going to the essential. I draw directly with markers with no construction lines, hoping to develop an automatism.

The model is Susanne Du Toit, a wonderful artist I discovered through the jkpp group.

C’est comme faire son jogging, mais pour l’esprit. Je dessine une série de portraits de la même personne sur des post-it. La petite dimension me force à la simplicité, à aller à l’essentiel. Je dessine directement aux feutres, sans lignes de constructions, en espérant développer un automatisme.

Le modèle est Susanne Du Toit, une artiste magnifique que j’ai connu grâce au groupe jkpp.

 

NaPoWriMo day 28

still waters
a frog hops
golden ripples

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NaPoWriMo day 27

among the ooooh!
and ahahah!
and oulala!
a little voice says:
I like the putty tat!

NaPoWriMo day 26

A frog hops
the sun flickers
On ripples
On the pond

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NaPoWriMo day 24

Dangling upside down
Gorging on cherries
I call you
My northern monkeys

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NaPoWriMo day 23

translucent veils
iridescent ribbons
voluptuously undulating
deadly beauty

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NaPoWriMo day 19

Big, wet, sad
Puppy eyes
Sigh, deeper sigh,
She knows to wait
For the brush to rest
in the water jar
to go run on the Heath

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This one for Maureen and her muse

NaPoWriMo day 18

In a tumultuous city
In a peaceful garden
In a transparent pond
Swims silently
A koi

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This one is for Aletha, the Queen of Kois

NaPoWriMo day 17

Herdysheperd tweets
Photos of lambs and ewes
From windy Scotland
Smile
In springless Montreal

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this one is for @herdysheperd 1 . I love looking at his tweets and photos of his ewes, lambs, dog in beautiful Scotland.