In an attempt to show how paintings come to life and the different layers required, I have decided to start documenting the process of painting. I am not confident that this is a good thing to do, and I am not happy with the visual result nor with the method. I’ll continue investigating, but you comments and support might help in that task.
I have to say, now that I look at the video and think about it, I wonder if it’s not better just to show the end result; I feel like a little a bit of the magic has vanished (if there was any).
Yellow Frog by Tany, 2012, Oil on canvas, 80×100cm
I have a feeling that 2012 is going to be one to remember. I’ve took advantage of the long winter break to increase my painting sessions and as a result I have already completed three new canvas.
I’m really about two of them, not by the result but by the work accomplished and the process that I have been going through between these two and the previous bunch. I finally feel that I am on some tracks… that I might end up going somewhere.
"On va tous creuver Martin" by Tany (We are all going to die King)
It’s been a hard year, and it looks like the next one will be worse. So, for difficult times make in Suntory time… no no no that’s not it.
I wanted to have a positive wallpaper that would keep my spirit up when I hear the disappointing news along the day.
I have been publishing a few unfinished business/works on this blog and to put the balance back to a fair point, I’m posting the latest additions in my artwork portfolio (which are not unfinished) :
Now that I look at these I realise it’s only animals, and wild ones. You’ll think it’s obvious but I hadn’t noticed until now…
I wanted to who this one out. I’ll say it’s finished. I’ve poured what I had in it and I don’t see what more I can tell on that story.
This works comes from the intention of working on some large scale painting. So I took a few cardboards I had, stuck them together, hung them and I started painting. The work was based on to things, a letter written from the father (on the left) about fatherhood and his daughter. And on two photographs I had. Initially I wanted to do a triptych so I drew the father separately, but then I just glued it on the large canvas. I wrote some of the words and then drew the child.
The harts in the middle, painted with the same ink as the words that describe the father’s feeling, represents the blood they share, the physical bond that exists between there cells, as well as the love supposedly in that ugly looking device that is a human heart.
The work is very large. I’m not really happy with it as I had to work with low resolution photographs ; that didn’t help me much. But anyway, working on a large scale canvas is very pleasing and it feels more physical, therefore the links between the painter, the material and the subject gets all very much tightened altogether.
One of my very own little pleasure is to design posters for the Imagine Science Film Festival (New York). It’s been three years now (2008, 2009 and 2010) and it is a peculiar work to try to find new ideas for the exact same subject. The first year, my work wasn’t actually selected.
2010’s ISF poster was based on the idea of X-raying a film-maker, trying to dissect who the magic happens. On the other hand, I also wanted to depict the power of the imagination, transposed as the universes and its thousands of stars.
more on the festival here.
That’s an interesting story. I can’t say this one is unfinished, I can say I am not satisfied with the result. I look at the picture – or rather pictures – I have taken of it and none of them looks right.
When I look at the painting though, it’s seems normal, as if the proportions where right. But looking at the picture, it’s hard for me to still believe this painting is done.
I’m thinking may be as some people are photogenic and others not, it’s possible it’s the same thing for paintings. Ok you are going to argue that paintings are in 2Dso it’s probably impossible.
Anyway I don’t know what to do, may be in a few years, It’ll come to me but for now I am just puzzled.
I’ve had so much trouble painting this one that I just need time to forget it and come back to it when it’ll feel right. It’s an outside portrait, in front of a church in the XXe arondissement of Paris. First I want to try a very raw background, hens the oily background colour very industrial and rough.
I’ve had a lot of difficulties painting the eyes, the look of the Jesus looking to the skies. The angle was peculiar and the model himself has an unusual eye feature. Therefore I haven’t found the right balance yet. I’ll get back to it sooner or later.
I’ve entitled it boxing jesus because for some reason it looks like his left eye is swollen.
From now on I have decided I would show a little bit of the making off of my paintings featured on tany.fr ; this includes showing some draft works or paintings witch I’m not satisfied with but that I don’t know what do do with.
Here’s the first one of the series, a few paintings will show up in the following weeks due to the many works unfinished I have. This one is a portrait of a woman asleep. Originally the woman was lying in bed and the background (squares) has been made up. I’m not satisfied with it because it looks too much like a cartoon and it’s definitely too naive. Ideas are welcomed.
Un nouveau site dédié aux oeuvres de Tany vient d’être mis en ligne.
tany.fr est le portfolio en ligne et l’on peut y voir a l’occasion une majorité de nouvelles oeuvre peintes en 2010 et 2011.
Le peintures en cours de réalisation où non retenue pour le portfolio seront exposées dans dejavu-production.com dans quelques jours… à suivre donc.
Le fruit d’une collaboration entre Alexis Gambis et Tany, à Paris l’été dernier a donné lieu à un moyen métrage: Le dernier été des sciences. Le film étudie la psychologie d’un scientifique new-yorkais qui cherche des réponses à un mal-être professionnel dans son enfance passée à Paris. “Le dernier été des sciences” n’est pas un documentaire.
L’album dont est tirée la bande originale du film est disponible là; l’artiste est David Franck Keller et l’album est “A Long Way From Minneapolis”.
It is nice to feel more and more how, as time goes by, things start to grow up and become “something”, evolve into interesting and mind feeding parts of your environment.
Here is the latest website displaying Isabelle Terestchenko’s work isabelleterestchenko.net. It’s nice to see the evolution of her work, I really like her use of stencils and the mix of techniques really works well. I think her personality really transpires through her art.
If you ever go to the Minibar in Paris, you can ask for a special – only for your eyes cocktail. Take some Pirart Society spirit, some Minibar spirit, shake it, blend it and there you go. The spring 2010 wallpaper Minibar x Pirart Society.
I don’t really like creating logos because it is a very complicated task. The format is very limited, you need to reach unconscious cognitional processes, at the same time it must be very clear and straight to the point. Not easy at all.
On the other hand it is a very important exercise, a little bit like the “Elevator Pitch” in management, you need to go through that process to better understand your limits and… well and get better at what you do by knowing what you need to work on (and as there still so much for me to learn it’s quite depressing to do logos…).
This is a logo for a bed and breakfast in Brittany (France). My original idea was to show that the business is based on the manor, and also as I wanted to suggest that it is an ancient house – they do their own calvados and cider etc – I thought of working around the idea of the wax seal they put on bottles and letters.
Logo of La Haye d’Irée, www.chateaubeton.com, by Captain Tany
Saint Remy du Plain, FRANCE, 2010
I have been producing a lot of digital works for the past two years (websites, logos, promotional adds, communication support) and by doing so I have been neglecting a little bit traditional painting.
I have been wanting to issue a special art piece based in digital tools for a while. Also creating a piece using digital tools is quite different from brush painting as you can totally differentiate color and shape when using computers. So for me it was quite interesting to really explore the “color arrangement” issue in this work. It takes you back to childhood where you already have the shape and you need to choose the colors. It’s not as easy as it seems.
I have added many of my late inspirations in that work, and as always taking some themes of childhood and working around that.
Carte de visite réalisée par Captain Tany pour une boutique de déco-design d’intérieur de la Drôme. Version 2010 inspiration – salon de thé d’un hotel particulier design / caché-chic.
Carte de visite par Captain Tany
pour l’Espace Flirey, Drôme, 2010
Carte de visite par Captain Tany
pour l’Espace Flirey, Drôme, 2010
The latest creation of Captain Tany: Snowboard boots to enhance your winter gigs and urban cruises. This work is a Pirart Society x minibar mix up. “When you walk around with these in the city, it’s like walking on sushine.”
This is a design project and these are not for sale, unless you want to spend an extravagant amount of money on these.
Pirart society snowboard boots
by Captain Tany, 2010
Une équipe de télévision coréenne a fait un reportage sur un bon ami à nous, Yoon Ji-Hiuk, le meilleur joueur de baseball de la décennie en Corée. Là-bas, le baseball est le sport national donc Yoon y jouit d’une aura particulière.
A Paris il se promène incognito, et parle un peu de sa relation au sport et à la perfection. De belles images de Paris, en particulier sur la fin de la vidéo. (On notera qu’il porte pas mal de vêtement de la Pirart Society! Merci Yoon)
Yoon Ji-Hyuk
Élu Meilleur joueur de la décennie par la “Korean Baseball Association” (KBA)
