Category Archives: Miscellaneous

Subscription to Level 1 Watercolour I’ve subscribed to Level 1 Watercolour as my second course at OCA. I know that it will be difficult to find enough time to squeeze still more into my schedule. I don’t know, maybe it’s out of experience that under pressure, one tends to find very effective ways to manage […]

To tackle the problems I had with oil pastels, I made some experiments in the sketchbook and on loose sheets of black and blue paper. This time I decided to integrate these loose sheets into the sketchbook so that I would have these experiments together in one place, rather than distributed across sketchbook and diverse […]

I’ve begun working for a series of artworks on Mallorca, the Spanish island. The idea came when I was thinking what I might give my father as a present for his 80th birthday, which will be on August 25 this year. He is very fond of this island. I have been there twice, in 2005 […]

Recently I saw a TV documentary on ARTE about French artist Bertrand de Miollis who was travelling through Cambodia, making watercolour sketches as he went along. He also went to the Angkor temples. These are ancient Hindu temples in a jungle, protected as an archeological site. I was very impressed by the film sequence about […]

Some days ago, I met a friend for a mutual portrait session. My portrait of Claudia was done in charcoal. It was rather sketchy but I found it captured a characteristic expression in her face. While I was drawing, I was fascinated by the light contour resulting from her sitting against the light source, so […]