Thank you !!!

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 ^_^).

There are so many incredible works there !