Hippo in Leeds

Here is my contribution to Fabric Lenny's project : Hyppos in Leeds. He invited us (me & some other fingerpainters) to participate in a mini project where each would have to make an hippo painting (using brushes), to be shown as postcard size images at the upcoming West Leeds festival (UK). So there I did !

By the way, Fabric Lenny's iphone artwork is absolutely awesome, you just HAVE to take a glance on it !

Finger, brushes app & ipod touch.

Sketching trees

I needed to draw some trees for an artclass project. So I took away my camping chair, left for the nearby forest and sat from a nice tree to another... Here's the result ! Such a great fun to sketch from life :D

Each took 45 min on average, apart from the third that was much longer (all these leaves, aah...). Probably some more to come in the next few days !

(Pencil on paper for this first.)

Ballpoint pen & black felt-tip on paper.

Ballpoint pen on paper.

Pencil on paper.

Ballpoint pen on paper.

Some medals for a super fingerpainter

In tribute to Susan Murtaugh, whose style and talent are more than genius.
I tried here to approach her painting style (mostly in the background), but I admit I didn't succeed in ! Next time I'll only use Sketchbook instead, it seems really more appropriate to make those "multiple lines" that are in the background.

Visit Susan's gallery here !

Fingerpainted from life on ipod touch, with brushes & sketchbook mobile.

The Soloist

 "Everyday, everynight, he played for them. For the lost souls. Since 356 years.
They needed help, and he knew he was the only able to save them. Everybody knew it.
Since Topoletto died, he had no choice. The lost souls were appealing to him. So he took away his violin and left the common world.

He was called Maestro."


Dedicated to Matthew Watkins, the most inspiring fingerpainter I ever met.
Happy Bday Matt !

Check out Matthew's photostream !
Brushes.

And here's the process video:

Easterland

 Happy Easter everybody !

Fingerpainted with brushes on ipod touch.

The Painter / The Chemist

I fingerpainted these for an artclass project. The theme was "play on ego", and I chose here to play between the Artist's personnality and the Chemist's one. That also represents my personnality, and my current hesitation upon my future studies choice -scientist or artist?

I displayed them printed, with the related painting playbacks. You can see it there:

(brushes / ipod touch)

The carrot revenge

Above is the 4th piece of our ping pong painting ! That's getting crazier and crazier :P

Here are the sketch & the painting process :

This one was in reply to that fantastic work : (by Borja Aguado)

Hope you like it !

(brushes+layers / ipod touch)

Carrots for my friend !

 Above is a fingerpainting I did for a great friend and artist Borja Aguado (check out his super artwork here ! ). We're starting a 'ping pong painting', and he made the first move :

I just had to reply !

(brushes / ipod touch)

Fishing

 Some more clouds!

The painting playback is there:

Brushes / ipod touch / finger

Up !

A quick cloudy one, playing around with texturing & some nice brushes. And another tribute to Goro Fujita through the little flying :) -seen in two of his genius fingerpaintings: Cave Monster & Sparks.

Here is the painting playback, stroke by stroke. Enjoy !

Brushes on ipod touch.