Sketchbook 2015 - copies

Drawn after some of my favourite illustrators :

Jackie Morris

 (East of the Sun, West of the Moon, 2012)

("The Winter Queen and Her Russet Red Lover" 2010)

Jan Cerny

 (Les Chevaliers de la Table Ronde, Gründ 1988)

'Forever the fire burns in our hearts'

Commission for Rachael (:

(rachaelswiregarden.deviantart.com)

Everything starts with an ugly sketch :

Work in progress : watercolours, salt, white ink, black gel pen on paper.

Tours de Merle

Return to work after almost a entire month of artistic inactivity.

I had to finish something, and quickly!

 The caslte depicted here is called "Tours de Merle", a medieval and fantastic place... 

 Reference pictures below
(source here and there)

The Tours de Merle (English, Towers of Merle) are the ruins of a castle in the commune of Saint-Geniez-ô-Merle, in the Corrèze département of France. A feudal fortress from the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, which was subject of a classification as a historic monument since July 30, 1927.

In the fourteenth century, Merle included seven castles, two chapels and village, owned by seven noblemen from Merles.

During the Hundred Years' War, the English took one of the towers and a castle in 1371.

In 1574 the Calvinists took the citadel, where they established a garrison, they were driven out two years later by the co-lords. But the fortress was abandoned by those who preferred to live in places that were more pleasant and certainly more accessible.

(from Wikipedia - I admit I was too lazy to write my own comment here)

Sketchbook 2014-2015

 Maybe an illustration of the French Tale "Lai du Palefroi Vair" / Svartsjuk bis

 

Copies of illustrations by Jan Černý, from a book about Round Table Knights

Medieval love story... with a poem by Verlaine

Rêverie

The pictures speak for themselves...

Dragon Noir

Here are some pictures of the progress of "Dragon Noir", a completely random painting.

(sorry for the low quality)

Used tools :
300g/m² paper (A3), Indian ink (applied with a n°0 brush only),
watercolours, white and gold inks, salt.

Last stage before adding final colours with a light watercolour wash.

But.... wasn't it better before??? I let you judge by yourself!

Watercolour sketchbook I

Four speed paintings from one of my sketchbooks (A5 size).

Some of them are already done as finished piece, others are in progress...

"Svartsjuk" (2013) / untitled painting of Ariane, Timiga and Cabriole (2014)

"Rêverie" (2015) / "The mystery of death before us" (2015)