Pirogh Hesse

Today, at l'ESAD, I worked on a sepia portrait. I chooses a portrait of Gustave Courbet: the links shows an original black-and-white photography due to Etienne Carjat, 1867. Yan Pei-Ming, a contemporary painter living in France, interpreted this photography in 2019: observe here his painting, which is monochrome in blue. My interpretation is also monochrome, but sepia:

Acrylic, monochrome sepia, 50x65cm.

At l'ESAD, I study portraits from John Larriva, a contemporary painter from Florida, USA. Here are my interpretation of Sunbeam (2014):

Then, I turned on Adore and Citrine, both originaly painted in 2015:

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Acrylic, 50x65cm.

During the all saints holiday, I travel to Belle-Ile-en-Mer, in Brittany: I paint some watercolors on the spot.

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I use a small A4 sketch book that I've done myself, as described in my previous blog post Travel by bike. As for sketches in less than 10mn, I fix here to finish each watercolor in about one hour. Before to come back in Grenoble, I stop for a week-end in Paris and go at the Luxembourg garden:

Back in Grenoble after a travel during the holidays, I continued watercolor sketches from the quais and river bridge.

Then, I visited my family in the Alps, first in Lovagny where there live in a chalet and then in Novalaise where they restored an old farm.

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Watercolor, about 21x30cm.

During a bike trip with saddlebags and camping tent, I painted on the spot some watercolors of the scencic landscapes of the south of France. I left Grenoble, joined the via Rhôna and I then, reached Saint-Agrève and later, Rodez:

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I drew fitst a quit sketch using a fineliner-pen and then introduced the watercolors. I used a small A4 sketch book that I've done myself with some watercolor paper, a cardboard sheet for the back, a transparent slide for the top and a a string for the binding. As for sketches in less than 10mn, I fixed here to finish each watercolor in about one hour.

Going back, I stopped few days in Die:

This is a charming small town circled by Gallo-Roman city walls:

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Watercolors, about 21x30cm.