little bit early

YAY ! Another Christmas present !! Ok, actually I recycled, it's like 5 years old, but i wanted to share it for soooo long.... Merry Christmas (again) !

Christmas issue

I guess my obsession for long women's hair won't ever let me go....
Anyway, I have some presents for you today !
First of all, here are two modified photos. As I'm not what we can call a "good photographer", plus I don't have much time these days, I had to borrow some pictures... And finding the right photos is not as easy at it seems, trust me...
The second present is that. This is a (more than) excellent blog about photographers, illustrators, painters... Which gave me lots of inspiration these last few years - by the way, that's where I got the photos from. Unfortunately, it seems to close by the end of the year, so hurry up to check out all the marvelous archives.
Until next time, joyeux Christmas and bonne new year to you all !

original picture from Bruno Dayan

original picture from Steven Meisel

McS introducing 'meta,

Hi everyone, I'd like you to meet meta. We've made this together as a test; this is our first (but probably not last) collaboration. See you !

'Meta,

"Metarealism seeks to depict the reality which exist beyond psychological subjective perspective. Metarealism proposes not only to communicate further than the pictorial aspect of the perception of other dimension of reality, but also the essence of those dimensions and their relation to us as human beings. Metarealism then becomes a tool for the evolution of consciousness. [...] Meta meaning, a holistic view of reality as perceived by a metaconscious mind, who sees reality as a whole rather than from a subjective personalized intellectually fragmented point of view. Metarealism is the materialization in pictorial form of the reality of other dimensions and their direct effect, and relation upon us. Metarealism tries to depict the relations between those dimensions of reality and how we psychologically interpret them through our sub mental symbolism."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metarealism

 click on the image to enjoy a bigger view

Portrait

How to gain time : take a picture and draw on it.......

beasts

Again.... Some symmetry beasts here and there...
FYI: i did these two from the self portrait of a cauliflower.

self portrait of a cauliflower

"If your professor gives you a sheet of paper (that you have to fold....) the best you can do is to turn that sheet around and start drawing."

Golden Blog Awards

For those of you who didn't notice, there's a new badge (the blue one) on the right side. By clicking on it, you can vote for this blog for the Golden Blog Awards in the "Graphic Culture" section, also you can visit the others here http://www.golden-blog-awards.fr/categories/culture-graphique/. 

In Gold we trust

new canvas on its way

A few weeks ago, coming back from work, i found a 1x1 m² canvas in the street. About 2  weeks later, i started painting it. Here is a step by step, from the beginning to where i am now.

 1st day

 

1week from the beginning

 

  8days  from the beginning

 

12days from the beginning

let me introduce you my friend D.DAVE ILL

a little bit more

I know, I said it'll be finished by now... but hey! holidays and stuff... I promise I'll never swear again !

in the mood

Some advertising

A little post about the 2nd anniversary of D.O.T.S (Down On The Streets).
Street Art is all about advertising and promoting somebody's work, most of the time it's self-promoting. But in this case, I'm promoting somebody else's work, as he did it for me, a few weeks ago.
So here is a quick chalk work I did a few days ago to celebrate the 2nd anniversary of his blog, where he presents Parisian's Street Art.
I could talk about it for hours, but you better check by yourselves here : http://downonthestreet-paris.blogspot.com/

Body Painting

Looking for some inspiration, I found this in my archives, did it last year.

I have to admit : the girl is a copy, the original one can be seen here http://www.cgunit.net/search?q=iumazark ...

Hope you'll enjoy anyway !

old one

As I was at my sister's apartment, I found back this canvas I made a few years ago.

another preview

In progress

Here is a sneak peek of the painting I'm currently working on. Hopefully, the finished work will be released by the end of july, until then, stay tuned for other previews.

ordered

 

noon in paris

Picture taken by Emilie Roches (http://emilie-roches.kabook.fr/)

New Design !

Hey ! As you can see, I'm redesigning the blog. It's not finished yet, but feel free to tell me what do you think of the brand new design (and don't forget to tell me what web navigator you use, they don't show the same things...)
See you !

Kitty Cat poster

Just went to rue de la Verrerie, near Beaubourg, and found THE spot where I posted this 2x1 square metters poster I printed at home. If you want to see it, you should hurry, the rain started to blow it away...

I think I'm done with that drawing, but thinking about making a series of drawing/video/poster, not sure yet.

Special thanks to Ben who helped me posting the top (I'm not 2.5 metters tall....)

Making of Kitty Cat

As I told you, here is the speed painting of Kitty Cat. Enjoy !

Kitty cat

I think I can't say a lot of things about this one. Almost 10 working hours within 2 days, I'm just exhausted, but this isn't finished yet, I filmed all the birthing of it and I now have to work on the video clip (I think watching me drawing for 10 hours wouldn't be really exciting...) So stay tuned for the speed painting coming in a few hours/days...

That face

It's been a while since I started that, and after over 20 hours working on it, I proudly announce that I think  it might be finished !