Hi
I precise Paris (France) as you know there is also a Paris (Texas)
Do I need to say I like humour ?
I was not born to be a portraitist. Like you all, I have been thrown out of classes because I was sketching my teachers.. but I had been thrown out of my drawing classes either ... too bad !
My real vocation is to be a writter. Everything comes at his time and I 'm very patient. It's one of my main quality as you 'll see it on my paintings. I started really late to paint. I graduated in business administration and worked for a while in advertising before to launch my own companies as a pioneer in the French web (1984). It was fun and a horn of plenty. I sold my companies, lived a few adventures.. and decided to be a painter.
It was in october 96. I had never touched a brush or a pencil and I was 42 years old.
The fist year, I only painted dead birds in still life using my wife's watercolor box. I didn't take any lesson but my skill was improving each day and after a month, I was really happy with my work. A friend of mine pushed me to exhibit in the hunting fair of Paris in may 97, just 9 months after my start. It was a success and I got a few commissions. The most important one was for a dog portrait and it gave me the direction for the 8 years to come.
My first client launched me in the very wealthy and elegant world of French hunters and I had a lot oc commissions. So many that when I created my website in 2003, I called it "
the dog Museum ". It has now 800 visitors a day.
Here is a watercolorportrait of my beloved labrador.
As you see, I like colour, details and contrast and it's my watercolour are in an unusual realistic style.
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Hybrid Mode
