Many people, including me, will do a Google image search when they look up an artist online. As an artist, you will probably want the pictures showing on this search to reflect accurately what you do. If you have been painting for a long time, searching your name on Google image search might show images […] Read more
When relief printing with multiple colors, you basically have 2 options: Carve a plate for each colorUse the same plate that you carve and print with each color. I have done multiple plates-multiples colors prints like this one: but wanted to try a reduction print. I started with a 3 colors print, inspired by this […] Read more
I don’t know about you but time seems to fly when I am in life drawing class and I have only so much time to draw contours and shade, it is difficult to also add paint. You might also like: https://paintingdemos.com/5-techniques-to-make-your-life-drawing-class-fun/ A while ago, I wrote a post about a technique I like to use when […] Read more
We don’t send much snail mail anymore but Christmas is still an exception for me and I like receiving personalized Christmas cards, it is even better is they are handmade ! I work a lot with lino printing and wanted to explore block patterning made with lino for this year’s cards. To make the cards […] Read more
Recently I have been giving a lot of thought as to why I like so much life drawing and what I want to say with my art. For sure there is something almost magical happening when you manage to represent accurately someone in front of you, in life drawing class, with some basic tools like […] Read more
I have been looking for a long time for a press to print my linocuts but I wanted something that would not take a huge amount of space and would allow me to print at least A3 sized prints. So I was very excited to find a large book press in an antique store. I […] Read more
An archaeologist from the future looking at our present time movies would have a very distorted picture of our reality: He would think for exemple that 90% percent of the population is white, that women are not able to take many decisions on their own, especially in times of crisis, that the majority of their […] Read more
One great advantage of working with linoprints, or any kind of hand printing technique for that matter, is that you can experiment with different colors and different supports with the same linocut plates. You might also ne interested in: How to hand print linocuts I recently carved lino plates for a forest triptych that would have […] Read more
