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A new Dark Angel is ready….she is “Nonchalante” ^_^ hope you like her ! (thanks to Suzy “Mortemer” my model from DA).

The Painting Aroma of Coffee is for sale, now on ebay.

Hi I wanted to post a link to an interesting art blog who featured in this article some of my work.

Thank you !!!

I have put 3 of my works for sale on e-bay.
Those 3 pieces from the Tuscan Dream collection, I will add one more next week (the one with the deer) plus some drawings.

Those are the originals pieces, mixed media (oils & acrylics) on canvas.
The auctions end on sunday Jan 24, 2010 at around 14:39 PST

This is my latest work, a hunt-themed still life. It was a commission from friends, so it does not reflect my favorite choice of subject, but it was a nice exercise and I always enjoy to paint pieces with warmly and softly lighted elements on very dark brown background.
I was also given other paintings as references, so that makes it even more an exercise (I hope the authors I took inspiration from, “L’Ultimo Caravaggio”,  Giuseppe Recco,  & others, would be flattered and not offended ^_^).

I don’t know if it’s because in autumn and winter I have to wake up earlier than in the summer, and it’s such a long process to get used to it, or if it’s because it’s harder to get out of bed anyway because of the cold, but in this season I am particularly attached to my little morning vice, a good cup of deliciously smelling espresso coffee. Or perhaps it is because of my low blood pressure ? (coffee is a bunch of toxines but it has one thing, it puts life into a zombie, like the one I am in the morning).

Anyhow, that morning I was also feeling discouraged by all the half-finished pieces that stare at me in a reproaching way, reminding me how little time I am dedicating to them, and I wasn’t feeling like working on a killed hare at all. So that’s how I decided to create a little happy encouraging piece that would get the spark back in me! I hadn’t any plans to start with, just a little technical experiment in mind, and that is how my mood took its shape on the wood panel I found around!

Well, this is only the work-in-progress, since it’s not totally finished yet (and that’s why I show it without colours for now ^_^).

I just discovered that my old portrait of Bruce Lee (made when I was 17) was featured in this article “1000 amazing faces” on Deviantart. Thank you !!!

There are so many incredible works there !

I’m still here though well hidden, if you’re wondering why I update so little, the answer is in the title

Until the 15th of december it’s the olive picking season so in order to allow my relatives to produce this delicious new and organic extra-virgin olive oil, I have to sacrifice lot of (all?) my time at the brushes in order to keep things going.

In the little free time I’m continuing to work on Mara’s portrait, which has come now to its third layer (meaning it looks monochromatically orangey now) and to another commissioned “dead nature” (=still life translated literally) which is really, really dead because it represents a dead hare and some other autumny decadence.