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.
