BACK TO LIFE

Hi everybody,

I´m back!
The winter in Oslo has been amazing with such an amount of snow that they had not seen since 22 years (accordind the news). Now the sun is back and so do I.
Begining of the year, I joined a life drawing class. It´s a quick sketches class, 2 or 3 minutes poses max. I will show you some of them soon but right now I would rather restart my blog with few drawings I made a week ago during a trip in Copenhagen.
It´s a beautifull city, made for pedestrian but also a cultural city with some interesting museums such as the "Ny Carlsberg glyptotek"with an impressive collection of Antiques.
This time I worked only with pen. I think I will have soon to change tool and go for brush pen just to break the habit.

So, here is Copenhagen:

MORE BOATS

Hi,

it has been a while since I updated my Blog.
A few weeks ago I got my eye surgery and soon I should be able to work again normaly (right now, only close vision is ok).
Anyway, as you can see I am addicted to boat-drawings. I have a lot of fun drawing those contrasts beetwen large shapes and small details, shadows playing around, mirror reflexion in the water, the pier and its world of organised and repetitive shapes.
Here in Oslo we also have the chance to have some sailing- boats with complex ropes organisation...probably my next target.

I hope you will like them.

Guillaume.

OLDIES 2

Hi,

In 2000-2001, my wife and I made a trip to malaysia. We spent six weeks there, sketching almost everyday, traveling from Kuala Lumpur to Penang island, Langkawi island, Cameron highland, Fraser hill and Malacca.
We met wonderfull people there, having the honor to be invited to a malaysian wedding. A family invited us as well to share their night diner to celebrate the end of the "ramadan".
The beauty of the country and his people are always in our mind and we hope one day to go back there.
The sketches that I show you here are gouaches painted over a black ink first statement.

Guillaume.

New Ink wash

Hi,
I had a great pleasure recently to discover this boat, between Oslo center and Bygdoy. This first drawing was a good apetizer and I expected to come back to put on paper some other point of view... Unfortunatly the boat left recently.
"Pas de chance!!"
Anyway, I added some others ink washes done a fews weeks ago before I got this technical problem with my eyes....A damned cataract!!!!! That mean a slow production for the next month until I will have my surgery.

But I will take this oportunity to show you some old works from a few trips I have done.

Guillaume.

SKETCHCRAWL AND MORE

Hi,

Last month, I had the pleasure to join the Scketchcrawl Oslo group at Vigeland Park.
I had a lot of fun and it was a great experience. We were around fifteen artists from Norway, Sweden, Usa, India and France.
Gustav Vigeland was an artist who created 212 sculptures for this park. He started to work on it in 1924 and in 1950 , seven years after his death most of sculptures were placed.
The three first skecthes I show you were done at Vigeland Park.

The two last were done the week after and I enjoyed a lot to work again with ink wash. This is definitely my favorite medium for sketch.

Guillaume.

Bygdøy

Hi,

Bygdøy is a peninsula, located in the city of Oslo. Most of the surface is covered by forest and field.
This is the second sketch about the beaches you can find there. They are quite small but really charming and it´s only 15 minutes walk from the part of the city I´m living in.
But Bygdøy is also a cultural place with a few interesting museums.
I will talk about this later when I will have the pleasure to introduce you the place by some of my sketches.
So, stay in touch,

Guillaume.

A SMALL BEACH IN OSLO

...and the sketch the most recently done.

THE NORWAY AND OSLO

Hi everyone,


Two months now since I left Madrid and Spain.
After a few days in France I finally ended my trip in Norway. I started my new life here in Oslo, working now for a games company, discovering a new culture and a wonderfull country.
As usually, the first month was focused in installation and "administrative paper quest".
Now, We are, my wife and me correctly installed. Anyway, I didn´t forget my blog and I was doing from time to time a sketch. I know some of you guys were waiting for an update since a few weeks and I would like to thank you for your patience and fidelity.
I hope you will like those drawings, done from middle april to middle of may.


Guillaume.

OLD STUFF

Hi,

some old illustrations (done for a game) I recently reworked.
Guillaume.

AROUND COLMENAR

Hello!

Here are three sketches from the same location. The two first were done today and the third last year, in october.
The second drawing was done in 20 min. With a line drawing more dynamic than the first one I think I´m loosing the peacefull mood I had found.
Guillaume.

MORE TREES STUDIES

Hi!!

The first sketch was done last year, around october. The second is new.

My time in Spain is almost over and soon I´m going to move for another country, to enjoy the beauty of nature in Norway. Big change, big experience and many things to discover.
Guillaume.

ANOTHER LOST WORLD

Hi everyone,

I´ve been really busy the few last month but I finally finished this illustration, using photographies (several part of castles, two mountains on the left and one on the right plus some textures effects), cuting and streching, painting a lot on this mixture to get something and a lot of "undo action".
Hope you will like it!
Guillaume.

TERRAFORMING4

Hi,

A new concept illustration on "TERRAFORMING" subject. Another one with this "reformated canyon".
This time, the place is more dirty, people are still working and it doesn´t look like an entertainment park. Even the air seems a bit polluted.
The people in the background are working there but you don´t really see what they are supposed to do. And yet, their technology doesn´t look high-tech for this huge work!
I would like to keep this enigmatic environment as mysterious as possible.

I hope this drawing will start to work on your imagination.
Guillaume.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

I wish to everybody an happy new year 2008.
And have a lot of fun with your art.
Guillaume.

CONCEPTS

Hi,

It's been a while since I posted the last work. Shame on me!!
Here are three sketches I have done recently. They are a first step from a concept I 'm currently working on.
Some other will follow, probably with different aspect depending the art direction I'll decide.
The main subject (if there is one?) is the "terraforming".
It will be seen always from inside, trying to put the spectator in this world.
I tought it will be more intriging to avoid the tipical flying point of view.

Tell me your felling about it.
Guillaume.

PASTEL PAINTING

Hi,

I had this picture I took few weeks ago during a trip in North of Madrid. The light, so particular and the composition were a good suject for a bigger pastel (around 30x40cm).
So I decided to focus on the light and for that, I intentionally worked with no details, keeping the shapes a bit blur except for the tree in foreground.
Camille Corot was a master in creating this blury effects in the landscape painting, especially in the trees foliage. He was my main inspiration for the style I explored for this painting.
The way I limited my color was also inspired by the old Masters.
This is definitively a style I feel confortable with and appropriate for pastel painting I hope to create.
Guillaume.

THE FACTORY

Hi everyone,

an illustration done recently.

MONSTERS IN BARCELONA

Hi,
here are two new sketches done last week end in Barcelona.
Industrial shapes are always funny to draw, specially the "monster craine" from sea port.
I 'll need to find a similar place in Madrid.
Guillaume.

Hi everyone,

I would like to show you those three drawings I did a fews weeks ago in France.
The first one was made with brush pen. It was a farm I could see when I was getting up from my tent. Behind the building, the "Mont Dore" mountain appear in the far distance.
The second sketch represent the old medieval city "Saint-Flour", a stop on the road of Compostelle's pilgrinage. I have done this sketch quickly ( with ink pen) because it was freezing.
The third sketch is located in south of France near the Spanish border. This is the "Salses" Fortress, built at the end of the 15th century by the Spanish soldiers to prevent invasion from French. Finally, after fews battles (the place became definitivly French in 1642) , the peace declared between the two countries (in 1659) moved the border line few kilometers from there and the fortress lost his stategic interrest.
The Fortress of Salses is a true specimen of transition between the Medieval castle and the modern fort.
The drawing was done with brown ink and pen (actually, a sort of metallic quill, don't know exactly the name in english, but an extraordinary tool for drawing!!).

So, I hope you will appreciate them.