Silvia 6 - Following Matisse by Elcet
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At the beginning of my activity as a professional illustrator I was not ready to make the color myself. I preferred to give up my ink drawings to a friend who was since many years an advanced watercolor colorist. However many of my clients refused that, for ideological reasons, and said me that if I did so they shall never give me orders. Therefore I was simply obliged to learn color to earn money with my job. After interesting results with Adobe Illustrator (see earlier posts and posts to come), I registered to a color course at the famous Duperre high art school where I have done my drawing studies before. The teacher, an excellent painter, Chloe Billiette, said us that all the year shall be spent with only 3 gouache tubes: a cyan, a magenta and a yellow, of which all colors derived. But she added: "Because I am very kind I will also permit you to buy a fourth tube, a little black one!" This is one of the exercises I did during the course. It is made of tiny bits of paper covered with gouache, cut with scissors, and pasted with a minimal color count and some density variations. Such colored gouache cut paper elements were much practized by the famous painter Henri Matisse at the end of his life. At the center you recognize my comic heroin Silvia who was already defined. It is interesting to compare her with the much more detailed portrait that I will upload after this one, so do not miss my next post!
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Comments (13)
2Loose2Trek
Thank you ever so much for the biographical and technical background of this fine work. Your years of diligent study have certainly paid off. Well done indeed.
thecytron
This is a wonderful collection of artwork! Very prefesionally done!
efferre
feel more free with your line and you will be closer to matisse!
dphoadley
You approach art in one way, I in another, but for the both of us it is essentially organic. For me, the beginning is to remap the mesh itself, so that I become familiar on a very basic level with the individual vertices of my figures. I now know both Posette and Victoria 4 in a way that few artist here do. I once read that the playwright, Eugene O'neal, needed to feel the paper and ink under his fingertips in order to create. This tile and Silhouette method is a very interesting building block approach, and very insightful. DO keep us posted. David P. Hoadley
helanker
OHh this is indeed lovely. I like so much this collage and the color use too. Thanks for the story behind it too.
Zorg1955
Un rébus très art-Déco ! Surprenant et excellent Edouard !
Mondwin
Splendid collection Dear Friend!!!!!!!!!!bravissimo!V:DDD.Hugsxx Whylma
cameraobscura2
It is good to see that not all creative art is done via the computer, but in the traditional manner, though I have nothing against the use of the computer, considering I use it to develop my artistic ideas. I also appricaite the commentary as it brings meaning to the piece. Have a great week. Thank you for sharing. egmont
Milouv
je suis époustouflé et par le résultat et par la somme de travail que cela représente.
Kuiski
A very creative and nices works. Good! :D
Claywoman
I really like these Elcet...I see very nice coloring~
RBlue
Nicely stark in the solidity of this presentation. Years back, I did professional Illustration work. I used inks, oils and watercolors. I preferred more contrast and strived for methods that gave me the kind of moodiness various contrasts could give. However, such bright colors (seen here) are a nice break and definitely lighten up the atmosphere.
Fidelity2
Very well done. 5+. B-E-A-U-T-I--F-U-L.