September has arrived, holidays are ending and everyone is going back to work/school! We actually worked all summer at Masmonteil Studio to prepare a few exciting things. First, the launch of my book and second, the first exhibits of my new paintings « The Memory of Painting ». Several events will be organized with book signings, studio […]
I love to work during the summer, because it’s a special moment. It’s a moment when you can focus only on painting because everybody is on holidays. There are no more emails, no more phone calls and no meetings, which can be exhausting the rest of the year because you are constantly interrupting the painting […]
Today I’m talking about the charcoal technique with a basic tutorial on how to draw with charcoal. Charcoal is the simplest way to highlight the basic principles of drawing, it enables to go straight to the essential. With charcoal you have to start by placing your shape on paper, then by placing the construction […]
La Source is an association founded 25 years ago by French painter Gerard Garouste, and I’ve been working with them for 17 years. The project of this association is to elevate children through art, to try to understand how we can be happy by creating. The goal is not to learn how to paint or how […]
I work with photography and models in my creative process. I usually take one day dedicated to model photography to build a photo book that I can use in my paintings. Anaëlle is one the models I regularly work with and has inspired many of my work, today she gives us her input on her […]
This episode is about photography and in particular about art model photograph, thanks to the work of Alexandre Jeanson who is a photographer, a hairdresser and a visual artist. He creates the models’ style, hair, makeup and then we organize a photo shoot in a very academic style, dissecting the movements little by little to […]
It’s official! I’m launching a new book with the publishing house Cercle d’Art. Cercle d’Art is an art book publishing house created by Pablo Picasso and two of his friends right after the war, whose aim was to popularize painting. Cercle d’Art published some of the biggest artists of the 20th century, ranging from Pablo Picasso […]
Teamwork is so important at the art studio and for this new art project – it’s so much nicer to work as a group. It’s a gain in time because we’re going 3 times faster and also because we correct ourselves much quicker, so that’s really important. We’re 3 painters so we each have 3 […]
Part of the life of an artist is doubt. We all get these moments of doubt of different proportions. I’m working on my new art project since the beginning of the year and I’m starting to see the first results of the project, which are followed by first joys and excitements – but also disappointments. […]