Catherine De Ryck

25 mars 2008

Glazing tips / Le glacis en pratique

Glazing requires patience and persistence to master. The artist cannot hope to see his work immediately completed. He has to wait, to add more and more transparent layers on top of dry areas. This painting-process seems fastidious but the result is often...

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22 mars 2008

Papillon de Jour / Butterfly

Let me guide you to a secret garden ... Is this only the result of an illusion or a hidden place among the trees and never seen before ? Sometimes, your imagination follows what you want to see ... And, if it is, then you should be watching closely ......

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8 mars 2008

Glazing / Le glacis : introduction

A glaze is a layer of paint, thinned with a specific medium, so as to become somewhat transparent. It is applied over another dry layer of colour. Each new glaze will tint or modify the previous layers, following the elementary rules of light reflection...

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5 mars 2008

The versatility of soft pastels / La polyvalence des pastels secs

One of the practical advantages of painting with pastels is that this medium allows to work more quickly than oils. Indeed, pastels don't need time to dry and their colours are very bright and luminous. To depict the tulle of the ballerina's dress, an...

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3 mars 2008

Neocolor II (Caran d'Ache)

Neocolor II are water-soluble wax pastels made of high-quality pigments. They are soft and easy to work and allow the artist to use a wide range of painting techniques, such as dry or wet drawing, encaustic, watercolour, wash and varnish, scraping, template,...

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1 mars 2008

Illustration Friday - Colin Firth

My entry for this week Illustration Friday's topic is this portrait of Colin Firth. As an artist, I am always looking for expressive faces, from joy to sadness. And a good source of inspiration, a good way to train your ability to produce resemblance,...

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28 février 2008

John Atkinson Grimshaw

John Atkinson Grimshaw, "Knostrop Hall, Early Morning", oil on canvas, 1870. John Atkinson Grimshaw was a Victorian-era painter, born in 1836, in Leeds. At the age of 24, to the dismay of his parents, he departed from his first job as a clerk for the...

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25 février 2008

The Winter Guest / L'Invitée de l'Hiver (sketch)

"The Winter Guest" / "L'Invitée de l'hiver". 22 x 30 cm. 2008. Toute reproduction, totale ou partielle, strictement interdite. Any (total or partial) reproduction of this picture is strictly forbidden. This is the drawing of one of my watercolours in...

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22 février 2008

Leonardo, the European Genius

To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of the European Community (1957 - 2007), a Leonardo Da Vinci exhibition takes place in the Koekelberg Basilica on the outskirts of Brussels. For the first time in history, it shows all the facets...

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15 février 2008

Friends from Cambridge

From Left to right / De gauche à droite : Hugh Laurie, Rowan Atkinson, Tony Slattery, Stephen Fry, Penny Dwyer, Emma Thompson, Paul Shearer. Some of them are part of the most talented British actors of all time ... They all met during their studies, in...

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