Hi everyone!! As most of you may already know, my BLOG became a VLOG and I am mostly on YouTube at the moment. I like the visual aspect of videos and, thanks to them, I can talk to you for real!! (and you can hear my “charming accent” as well!!! ) I offer 2 videos a week on average : Sketchbook Tutorials, Watercolor Demos, Casual VLOG and Journaling sharing and more. Here is a LINK to my Creative Watercolor Channel, with a pop up for subscription so that you can join easily if you want to.   I’m on Patreon!!! Plus, the big News right now is that I am now on Patreon as well! Feel ..read more

Hey what’s up?! As for me, I have been working on some quite exciting tutorials related to watercolor sketching lately!! I am so happy to share them with you.   As usual, these days, they are video tutorials, as it’s really the better way for me to show you stuff! But before sharing the tutorials with you, important thing. Some people told me they didn’t really know how to find the videos on their own, and how to to get notified about them and everything – and that’s essential, as I made quite a lot of videos in addition to these ones : about the color choices for my watercolor pale ..read more

Hi! I hope you are doing well and that your days are creative and exciting! I kept working quite hard on the videos about the Urban Sketchers Symposium which tool place in Chicago last year. I try to convey a special atmosphere for each video and to share the workshop teaching as well as what it’s like to be hundreds of sketchers in the streets.   The second one from the series show the instructors sketching in the morning, before the workshops begin : Liz Steel, Stephanie Bower and Marc Taro Holmes are painting the famous Chicago Theater. All along the video, I browse my sketchbook fo ..read more

Hey! Hi everyone! I’m back!! Happy New Year!!!!! I wish you a huge lot of creativity in 2018.   And I am REALLY happy that I at last managed to start working on the video shots I took during the Urban Sketchers Symposium last July in Chicago. Yes, time flies but, even a few months later, that’s a real pleasure to enjoy the atmosphere of the Symposium with the sketchers everywhere,the interesting workshops, the warmth of summer, and the craziness of Chicago!!   This fist video sets the atmosphere and features Suhita Shirodkar workshop about people sketching with a gestural and li ..read more

In June, I had the chance to attend a watercolor workshop with one of the greatest master of our time : Alvaro Castagnet! The main thing to say is : Whooo! It’s so fascinating to watch him paint! Just a-ma-zing.     So, I am happy to share with you, today, my pics from the workshop : portraits of him, of his gear and his paintings… (NB : that’s normal that Alvaro has his hand in front of his face in the photo above, that’s to create a more expressive portrait )     Alvaro has his moods but he is a generous teacher and his enthusiasm with watercolor is really infectio ..read more

I noticed that the compliment people make the more often about my watercolors is “I looooove your colors!!”.  Thank you so much, guys, by the way, for the kind words!! ☺️ That’s true that I am pretty at ease with colors… Maybe there is something special about my use of colors?… Not so sure… Do you think so?! My critic self often thinks that I work too much with colors and that this does a bit of harm to the value impact of my pieces…Painters often say that values are more important than colors (which is highly probably true) so that’s not so good to be too much into colors ! So, I gue ..read more

Did you participate to that event too? Last week, Marc Taro Holmes and Liz Steel had the great idea to encourage the sketchers from all over the world to practice their people sketching, trying to make 100 people sketch in one week.   I decided to participate, even if I regretted the many people of India (always eager to pose!) and the warm weather helping to go out and sketch! At last, I reached the 100 sketches! Even if I wasn’t able to do a lot of sketches from life, I took the chance to experiment a lot with different sketching materials to try to improve my people sketching. In fa ..read more

I am in India for a while and I can’t believe what I see and what I live. All of it is really stunning! The dreamy atmosphere, the smile of people, the colors, the business… This is so impressive!! I am really happy to share with you some of my loose work in this colorful and exciting country. Temples and statues everywhere, bright colors, gorgeous atmospheres… India is a real gift for the painter!   I always try to compose a sketche simplifying the scene in 2 or 3 main elements if possible, as the flag and the sketchers in the foreground for this one, below.   I have a lot of fun ..read more

So, I guess I am going to talk a lot about watercolor workshops these days… Is’t it so exciting to be able to paint together in some gorgeous places all over the world though?!! Of course, the group for India is full but we are currently setting the group for my future workshop in France.   It will take place next September (2 to 15 September) but Nancy, my trip organiser said it’s time for those was are interested in attending to register, as we have to hold the rooms in the hotels until then, thanks to the registering. A lot of people especially know Paris and Provence, in France bu ..read more

Hey, time really flies!! It’s almost there! Next week, I will fly to India and will able to enjoy 17 awesome days in a different colorful culture… I am so looking forward to discovering it… and to painting it, of course! Plus, I will have the amazing chance to lead a watercolor workshop there and I am so excited about it!!   Leaving for India!! Actually, I only made really few trips during these 15 past years and I even realized I have never been out of Europe yet!! So, I am sure it’s going to be a life-changing adventure for me! Because of India and because of to the watercolor work ..read more