On the easel

This time it was at “Longpon-sur-Orge” near Paris, I won the second price in the category “Cezanne” (for advanced painters) with “Basilique Verte”, 18″ x 13″ acrylic on gallery-wrappd canvas. Once again we had only a few hours to complete the painting. I chose to paint the Notre-Dame de Bonne Garde basilica bathed in the beautiful light of an Autumn afternoon. Finding the good spot was tricky and I ended up with my feet all wet from the surroundings swamps! Ha well, the joy of plein air

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I won the 2nd price of 2nd category of the pleinair speed painting contest “Fleurs en Seine” (”Flowers around the Seine river”) at Les Mureaux (on the Seine riverbanks near Paris). This year’s theme was the Seine river and the trees, and I can say that I’m quite proud of me because I made this huge acrylique painting (26″ x 18″) in less than 6 hours, and believe me, it was a real challenge for me as I’m used to small formats… I had to paint “loose” because I would never had finished it if I had tried to paint all the little details I usually add with my 4/0 brushes!

I won a big wallet full of Sennelier finest arists’ oils and accessories! I will have no excuses now if I don’t start on oils!

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Bonne nouvelle pour les francophones, le blog sera bientôt disponible en français! 

Great news for the French-speaking readers, the blog will soon be available in French!

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The curtain droped on this stuning mural at Spruce Meadows (AB, Canada) on Sept 3.

And all I can say is that I am very very very proud to have been part of this incredible project! A big thank you to the creation team Lewis and Paul Lavoie and Phil Alain!

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At last, Face to Face is fnished! Oh my, I had nightmares about all those hair and grass… Next step, framing!

I entered it in SmallWorks NorthAmerica 2008 juried artshow (see their website at http://www.smallworksna.com/ ), acceptance notification on September 24th…

Enjoy!

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