tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144565239539547792024-03-13T14:46:20.336-07:00Coucou - Illustrations & MotsCoucouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16175421215929825951noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514456523953954779.post-42894700395606312352019-01-16T05:40:00.000-08:002019-01-16T05:45:12.225-08:00The things I learnt about watercolour<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I hope you are well, happy and warm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">It has been a while since I wrote here ! So, here is to my first 2019 post - and I hope I will be able to keep the rythm and post (kind of) regularly around here. It always makes me happy to read and answer your comments, and it is so much easier to have a small talk here than on Instagram (or maybe it is just me who has big fingers and kind of struggle sometimes to type long messages on the phone ?)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Anyway, let's get to the point ! (I can be so talkative sometimes)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I don't know if you follow me on Instagram, but you might have seen there already that one of my wish for this new year is to share more about my process and all the "behind the scenes" of the illustrations I post there. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">While I was in Spain last month, a little sentence came to my mind as we were walking in the street. " One day, I traveled to a little planet, and you were there, waiting for me". </span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I knew I had to illustrate this and make something with it, because I liked this sentence very much. And then I thought that maybe it would be nice to record the process behind it and share it with you.</span></span><br />
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is something I have been wanting to do for such a long time, but I
never really dared to because I have still so much to learn about
watercolour. It is such a vaste and interesting medium, it feels like
there is always a technique, a way of painting, a tool I don't know and I
have to discover. It is a bit scary to write this article, because I never
really had a class to teach me how to paint, or how to properly use that
tool, or how to build a coherent colour palette... most of the little
things I know, I learnt them with practice, and by watching other people
paint as well. So it is a bit difficult for me to put them in words and
try to explain them as clearly as possible. But I get so many questions
that I thought it was time I finally gather my courage and try, so here
we are ! I hope the little knowledge I have about watercolour might help you in
some way - and please excuse me if I write any mistake ! ♥</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">1. My watercolour journey</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> - The brushes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> - The paper</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">3. My process</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> - Sketching</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> - Transferring to the watercolour paper</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> - Scanning </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> 1. When and how did I start painting with watercolours</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I received this question many times before, and I thought it would be a good introduction for this watercolour adventure of ours 😇 It probably goes along with the question "when did you start drawing ?", that I also get asked regularly. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The answer is a little boring I have to admit, but I have been drawing since I was a child and learnt how to use a pencil. I believe every child who has the opportunity to, draws and creates things. It can be hard to keep doing it while we grow up, and when most of us stop because we don't have enough time on our hands, I just kept drawing and creating ! So there is not really a precise date for it, it is a long, slow and steady process 😊 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">However, there is a date, more or less precise, for when I started using watercolours. My first box was probably a birthday gift from my mother. It was a small Van Gogh box (I think it included 12 pans). I started using it around the time when I started high school, so I was something like 14 or 15 ! At first, I had no idea you could actually mix the colours between them to create new shades (I know, this is a bit dumb of me), so I was only using the colours right out of the pans - and my paintings looked quite horrible ! The colours were very saturated, and as I did not mix them, they did not really go well all together. But still, I was very happy to discover a new medium, and I was looking at watercolour art on the Internet, being really impressed and wondering if I could ever get to this level ! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">But I think I did not use watercolour properly (that is, after learning I could mix the colours, use more or less water, ...) before I decided I should try to give illustration a go career-wise. So it was at the end of 2015/ beginning of 2016, when I was already 21 years old ! When I decided to practice hard because I really wanted to make it my job, I was very scared of using colours. Because building a nice colour palette when you have no idea how it works can be quite difficult at first. So my trick was to draw an illustration with pencil in grey scale, and then add splashes of watercolour here and there to make it look happier.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Here are a few examples of what I mean : </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">So, this was back in 2016, and a bit of 2017 too. I was living in Edinburgh at that time. When I came back to live in France, in May 2017, I started to feel a kind of big art block. I was not entirely happy with my work, and really wanted to find some ways to improve. It came to a point where I almost could not draw something I liked at all anymore ! So, during summer 2017, I made myself a watercolour sketchbook, and started to experiment in it. This is when I finally dropped the pencil background and jumped into the colourful world of watercolour illustration ! One of my favourite illustrations (still now) actually comes from this sketchbook, when I was experimenting freely, without thinking I had to make good art.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Maybe you recognise her from my Instagram account ? This little whale friend was one of my first full watercolour illustrations, and it is very special to me ! Some people ask me sometimes when did I start to develop my current "style", and I think that, even if it a really, really long and slow process, and it is actually never ending, the kind of "style" I have now was born in this sketchbook. This is where I started trying colour combos and colour palettes, discovering my favourite shades and realising how much I loved to draw animal characters. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I strongly believe there is not such thing as "looking for your own style", because what we call the "style" of an illustrator is actually only their personnality ! Everything is already there, and it will just come out little by little with practice. The more you practice, the more chances you will get to find the mediums that suit you best, your favourite tools, your favourites subjects to draw, your favourite colours, the things that make you happy to paint. And I think that the key to making good work is to enjoy yourself ! So don't hesitate to take some time to "waste" every once in a while, and draw/paint (or anything else if this is not about illustration !) to just have fun, experiment and try new things. This time is not wasted at all actually, it will help you grow and learn about yourself and your art. Do not focus on one specific medium, but try many of them ! This way, you can find the ones you are most comfortable with, and one medium can help you learn something you can apply to another !</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">For example, I started doodling with markers a few months ago, and it helped me to include new colours in my watercolour work, colours I would maybe never have tried only with my brushes - but the markers helped me find out that I liked them a lot ! So just keep trying and having fun, because this is the most important after all ♥ </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">So, as I told you just before, my first watercolour set was a Van Gogh box made of 12 different pans. Later on, when I started using watercolour more regularly, I stole the watercolour set of my mother (I know, this is bad ! But I had her authorization and I actually exchanged my small set for her bigger one, because she almost never used it). This is how this lovely 24 pans set you can see in the picture below came into my life 😇 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I used only this set for a long time before I started buying separate colours.I love this set very much, it is very dear to me, especially because it has been with me since the beginning (almost) of my watercolour adventures ! But maybe I would recommend now to my younger self to only buy a few shades I really like to start with rather than a whole big set. Because there are many colours in there I almost never use ! However, I must admit it is nice to have a set with many different colours, because it can also push you to try colours you thought you did not like, and end up enjoying them very much ! It helps getting out of your comfort zone, which might not happen if you buy only separate pans you like already. So I guess there are positive and negative aspects to each option ! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">This is why I could recommend to just buy what you think will suit you best ; if you want a various choice of colours and like to mix your own shades, then you should probably go for a set. If you only want a limited colour palette and already have a precise idea of what you want to make, then maybe some separate pans could be cheaper and better !</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">And, this is when we come to separate shades ! In the last three years, I bought a lot of them, in many different places. I use most of them, there are just a few I did not enjoy (it can be hard sometimes to pick colours without testing them, because the colour on the packaging does not always match the real shade very well !).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">For a long time, I have been using only pans of watercolour. Pans are the squares you can see on the pictures below. They can be sold as full pans or half-pans. As you can guess, full pans are bigger, they last longer, but are also more expensive 😏</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">About the brands, I am not very faithful to be honest ; I prefer choosing colours I like rather than a specific brand to follow. There are several very famous brands for watercolour, and you cannot go wrong with any of them ! Of course maybe you can have a favourite one depending on your taste (I don't have a favourite one myself), but their qualities are all great.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">These are only a few of them, there are many more out there, but these were the ones that came to my mind because they are especially famous 😊</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I mostly bought <i>Winsor&Newton</i> pans at first. I also have a few <i>Sennelier</i>, and <i>Schmincke </i>as well. I couldn't really tell which shade comes from which brand, because I lost the packaging and the brand is not always written on the pan itself ! (I am actually a bit annoyed with myself for not being more careful, because it will be difficult when I need to buy one of the colours again after I finish it when I don't have the reference ! So please be more careful and smart than me and keep the references with you). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">However, something I can tell you, is that ones of my favourite pans are the biggest you can see on the picture, at the bottom. They come from a very small art shop in Edinburgh. I bought a pink pan randomly when I was living there, because I liked the shade very much. And it turned out to become my one favourite pan ever ! This is from a brand called <i>Pip Seymour</i>. The quality is amazing, and I love the texture and the coverage of the paint. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I only started buying watercolour in tubes last summer, in 2018. There is not much of a difference between a pan and a tube, only it might be a bit easier to get a very thick, saturated colour with the tube than it is with the pan. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I am not sure about this, but I feel like many brands have more shades in tubes than in pans (please let me know if I am wrong !). For a long time, I was afraid to buy tubes, because I was afraid to "waste" the paint. But this was silly of me, because watercolour cannot really be wasted ! It is a water-based paint, which means you can reactivate it really (really, really) easily with water even once it's dried. So as long as you keep your paint palette safe from dust and dirt, you can reuse the paint there for a very very long time ! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">On the previous picture are all of my watercolour tubes. I have some by <i>Daniel Smith</i>, <i>Winsor&Newton</i>, <i>Sennelier</i>, and <i>Schmincke</i>. Once again, I do not have a favourite brand there, but I can recommend <i>Daniel Smith</i> if you are looking for specific shades, because this is the brand with the most available shades in the world ! (Or at least this what I read on their webpage, and indeed, there are hundreds of colours there). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I know very few about brushes ! But I can say that my favourite brushes to use are the smallest ones. I love giving texture to my work, and adding patterns, and this all requires thin, tiny brushes. I almost never use the big ones !</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Just like for the paint, I do not have a favourite brand. However, I bought two small brushes last summber from Escoda, and I have to say the quality is wonderful ! My opinion is not that important because I am far from being an expert, but I do enjoy them very much. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I used to buy some natural hair brushes before I knew anything about it, but now I only buy synthetic hair brushes. I don't feel a difference, and I would rather use synthetic hair than animal hair to make my illustrations !</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">One last thing I have been asked about my brushes, is how do I get them pointy and pretty ? The honest answer is : I don't ! All of my brushes are quite messed up and do not look like anything pretty anymore. But here is a trick I read about some months ago (and did not take the time to try out yet, but I still wanted to share it with you !).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">If you clean your brushes with some brush soap, you can make the tip in a pointy shape and let the soap dry on the hair overnight. When you will rinse the soap the day after, the brush should look all pointy again, almost like it is new ! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I bought a brush soap months and months ago, and would like to try this soon. I can share the result with you to let you know if it does work or not ! (By the way, if you know this trick and have tried it before, please feel free to tell me if it works or not in the comments ♥).</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">- The paper</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">In terms of paper, I have to say I am much more selective than for the paint or brush brands ! </span>But
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">- <i>Hot press</i> watercolour paper, which is very smooth and silky.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">- <i>Cold press</i> watercolour paper, which has much more texture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Most of the time, the brands have three different grains for paper : </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">- rough grain (cold press) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">- thin grain (cold press)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">And then, most brands also offer these two options :</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">- Natural white paper, which is slightly more beige or yellowish</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">- Bright white paper, which is just plain white</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The choice is all yours, it really depends on your style and the texture you like to have ! I personally only paint on hot press paper, because I like having as few texture as possible ; it is easier when it comes to tiny details and to scanning your artwork ! I also used to paint only on natural white paper because I love the soft touch it gives to the colours, but I realised it is easier for me to scann and clean my illustrations digitally when I use bright white paper, because it does not interfere with the colours of the paint.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I sticked with one brand for two years now, and it is <i>Fabriano</i>. I bought their watercolour paper <i>Fabriano Artistico</i> when I started to paint with watercolour regularly because it looked like it was a nice quality and it was not too expensive. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">However, there is a paper I enjoy even more - <i>Arches</i> paper. I have tried it before and I would say it is my favourite watercolour paper ever. It is one of the smoothest I have seen ! I believe it is a little bit more pricey than <i>Fabriano Artistico</i> though, this is the reason why I mostly paint with <i>Fabriano</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I buy big rolls of paper and cut them out with an exacto knife. This way, you can cut the exact size you need depending on the project, and it is also way cheaper than buying separate sheets !</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Here are a few brands of famous watercolour paper :</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">(In <span style="color: #b45f06;">ocre</span> are the ones I have tried before and enjoyed !) </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">- My palette</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I also get a lot (really a lot) of questions about this porcelain palette I use to mix my colours. So I thought I would include it here ! I bought it last summer on the website of Jackson's Art, and I recommend it warmly ♥ I wanted a palette with a lid, so that I can keep my paints safe from dust. This one is very pretty and convenient at the same time, and I really prefer porcelain over plastic ! The colours won't stain and the palette is much easier to clean after you finish your painting. Plus, plastic-free options are really enjoyable, aren't they ? 😊</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I almost always sketch before taking my brushes. I love starting to paint without planning anything (some of my favourite works came out of nothing, just randomly painting and playing with colours), but when I have a precise idea in mind, this is a step I cannot really let aside. Most of the time, I sketch on scrap pieces of paper (the sheets that were not printed properly, for example), or in my sketchbook. I make a few research sketches from reference photos, and then start sketching from imagination. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Sketching from reference pictures is wonderful and very helpful, but it is also important to take a step back and not only copy the reference. This is why I think a nice way to do it is to sketch from reference several times, and after that, put those sketches away and just draw from memory what we just practiced. This way, we will focus less on making the element look like the real picture we saw, and will start draw it in our own special way 😇</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">For this illustration, I especially made researches about the characters - I knew the atmosphere I wanted to convey, I had a vague image in my mind for the characters, but I was not sure how to draw them. At first, I really wanted the two characters to be animals, but then I felt like it might more poetical and closer to what I had in mind if one of them was human. It took me a little while to figure it out but I eventually managed it !</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Many times, I skip this step and prefer to paint directly because it gives more spontaneity to the picture. I keep my sketch close to me and look at it for proportions and not to forget any detail, but I don't trace it directly on the watercolour paper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">However, for some pieces like this one, or for commissions, I want to make sure not to mess up the composition and proportions I chose, so I trace a very simple and light sketch beforehand as a guideline. For this one, I only drew the outlines for the bull, the little boy and the planet, to make sure to keep the size of each element faithful to my sketch ! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I always start with the foreground elements. Here, I wanted some of the flowers to be in front of the characters to give a little more depth to the illustration. I had not sketched them, but knowing this, I directly started painting them before anything else ! Once I made sure I had placed all the flowers I wanted in front of the characters, I started painting the bull, and later on, the little boy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Most of the time, I paint big blocks of colour and add details afterwards (like the eye of the bull, the pattern on his jacket, etc.). I tend not to layer watercolour a lot - I know this is one of the main great aspect of watercolour to be able to layer it, but many times I use it more like it was gouache - I love thick and vibrant blocks of colours ! This is why I do not use lots of water 😊</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">After everything is nice and finished, I finally scan the piece ! I use my good old Canon Lide 220 to do this. It is quite an affordable scanner, and it does a great job ! I bought it when I started considering illustration professionally, and still love it very much, in case you are looking for a scanner that is not too expensive to start with !</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">This article is already very, very long, so I am thinking of making a separate one for everything that is on the digital side ! (Like cleaning the image, colour correcting, etc.). Let me know if this is something you would like to read as well 😃 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I hope I did not kill you with too many words or boredom... and I hope this little knowledge I have can help you in some way 😊 I still have a lot to learn about this wonderful medium that is watercolour, but I wish I knew some of these things when I started with it, so hopefully it can help you save some time from preventing some mistakes i made ! (especially with the kind of papers, it took me a long time to understand there are several textures and what would work better for me).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">First of all, I just want to thank all of you who took the time to post a comment and tell me a bit more about yourselves on the last article ! This made me so happy ♥</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Social medias can be quite "self-centered" sometimes, and this is not a side of it I love. So being able to share a bit more here is wonderful. It is like having a conversation rather than just posting my own things ! So, thank you, with all my heart 😊</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">As I am starting to write, little Marcel just came onto the desk and sat between my arms, in front of the computer. It is not that convenient to write properly, but it is so cute I cannot tell him to leave ! I will write slowly today, and this is okay.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">So, as I was trying hard to come up with a nice sweet topic for this next blogpost, I suddenly thought that, maybe I should just put those thoughts into action and go for something a bit more relaxed than what I had planned in my head, and just take the time to sit, listen to some nice music and write to you. Marcel was here to remind me of this (he always is). I also thought I can post some pictures of my random doodles from my sketchbook I made yesterday with some copic markers. It was wonderful to draw for no reason. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">So here we are, a small article, just to tell you that it is okay to take your time, to not work all day long, to take breaks, to stop in the street to look at a small insect or a tiny leaf, to sit in your couch and just think and look around you, take the time to look at the corners of the walls and the ceiling. To buy a piece of cake and eat it slowly, looking at the people around, or through the window. To take a sketchbook and draw randomly the things that come to your mind and make you happy -even if they are very basic, even if they are not so "interesting" to post on any social media. To read some pages of that book we have put away for a while now because we did not have time, or because we had more "important" or more "serious" books to read before (I always feel guilty to read "dumb", light books, because I want to be a grown-up and read "real literature". I am so silly sometimes, I cannot believe it). To slow down and breathe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Thank you so much for making it until here (this article was quite long, I can be so talkative sometimes), I truly appreciate your presence ♥</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Please let me know if you have any favourite marker shades in the comments (I'm always searching for new colour inspirations !), or any tips and tricks you might have to help you create more freely. I would love if this little space could become a place of exchange between all of us, where each could give advice or learn something new ! That would be wonderful :-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I am so happy to write here again ! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">So, here, warm and happy, looking at all the yellow leaves in the garden outside, I wanted to write a few words for you who take the time to visit this blog. Yesterday, I realised that some of my illustrations on Instagram did not have as much interactions as they used to a few weeks/months earlier. So I posted a poll in one of my stories, asking people if they still saw my illustrations in their timeline. Most of them did (about 70% of them), but some did not. And some people even took the time to send me messages (thank you ! I am always happy to read your words ♥), saying that Instagram might be slowly dying, and that blogs are also very convenient to interact with people. I have no idea, I thought for a really long time that blogs were kind of "dead" now ! Is that true ? Please give me a sign, something, if you think the contrary :-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I love writing to you friends (and what I love even more is read from you !). And, let's say, Instagram is not always the best place for writing. It is awesome for posting pictures and very tiny captions (although mine are already so loooong), but it is not a place for talks in my opinion ! (It even cuts the private messages in the middle of a word if it thinks you're being too talkative). So, as I said before (I know, I already said all of this during the summer and then failed to write more regularly here...), I would love to make this little space, right here, more lively and to interact with all of you much more ! What do you think ? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I was thinking I could write about my favourite books, my most used art supplies, any other little things illustration-related (or not)... I could even let you know about the process I have to go through before opening my online shop ! I am in the middle of this, so... what do you think ? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">And also, what if we started with something sweet and nice : would you like to <span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">introduce yourselves </span>in the comment section ? This way, I could get to "meet" you (I really don't want to be the only one talking only about myself) ! I would be so happy to read about you and what you like :-) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I really hope you will be as happy and enthusiastic about this as I am, and meanwhile, I send you all my love ! (Marcel the baby cat is joining me and sends you greetings)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">(Also, in case you missed it, here is my last Youtube video where you can see some drawing and embroidering !)</span><br />
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<br />Coucouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16175421215929825951noreply@blogger.com48tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514456523953954779.post-79207006130916967862018-08-13T02:12:00.001-07:002018-08-13T02:12:57.015-07:00Where the magic happens<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> 7th, August 2018</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I am so sorry I am only writing now, I meant to write another blog post much earlier but then I got all caught up with all my work and summery things to do (I still want to try and enjoy some of my life while my region is not drowning under rain or snow !). First of all, I really, really wanted to thank those of you who took the time to post a comment on the last blogpost. I know this blog is not very active, and thus not many people write comments (which is totally normal, and I myself almost never write comments on blogs contrary to social medias), but it was so encouraging to see some of you from Instagram around here !</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Oh, wait, a music came up from my Spotify playlist and I actually do not like it this much (then why is it in my playlist ? I have no idea my friends !). There, I just changed it and it is much better. The window is open and a tiny bit of fresh air is coming to me. I love heat, I really do, and I will probably never understand the people who are so unhappy about warmth when it is summer (and in my opinion summer is made for heat), but I must admit that some fresh air from time to time helps me stay alive too :-) Anyway, I am mumbling way too much here ! Please excuse me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I actually don't have many exciting things to share around here, as I mostly spend my time painting things I cannot really show yet (but anyway, I am sharing two pictures of a tiny tiny fragment of the projects with you because it just makes me so happy to share these things with all of you !). I just felt like showing my desk a little bit (I am always really shy about showing my desk because it is messy 99% of the time and it is nothing fancy - I am dreaming of having one of these brights, white, clean, organised, wonderful desks and studios filled with awesome art supplies someday, maybe if I win the lottery haha !). But anyway, this is where most of my life happens these days so this is what I wanted to share with you? My little wall filled with silly little pieces of paper that make me happy, my Beatles poster (♥), and all the messy world of paint on it. Right next to the window, where I can hear the cars passing by and the people talking at the bar accross the street.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">And then you can tell me which ones are YOUR favourites and we can all exchange great titles and authors and illustrators to read and it would be awesome ♥</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">PS : I am sorry I could not publish this article right away after I wrote it, I did not find time to process the pictures until now ! So it is a bit late, but here it is anyway, I figured it would be better to publish it now than never :-) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">It has been ages since I last posted something here (I mean, I did post the link to my video some months ago, but apart from this it has been a really long time !). To be honest, I am not so good at writing. It is funny because I used to write A LOT when I was younger, in high school. I think I was actually spending more time writing than drawing by that time. I was writing ton of little stories, short stories, even started a novel (and only wrote 20 pages haha, but I really had the whole thing planned in my head - and it is still there, I must say I still like the idea !). But I don't know, I lost the habit of writing somewhere in between the pass of the day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">This is why I never really knew what to actually do with this blog. I would love to post more drawings, but isn't Instagram much more practical and easier to use for this ? I don't believe people would come here just to see drawings they might as well see when they scroll down Instagram.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">So I thought to be interesting, this blog should only have amazing beautiful inspired useful articles. And of course, I cannot write amazing beautiful inspired useful articles. So I tried some times but gave up eventually, just coming back once in a while to check in !</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">But some days ago, I realised when I posted some stories on Instagram and got a chance to chat with so many of you there, that actually this is such an interesting part of social media : not only show my work there (even if of course this is the biggest aspect of it), but also interacting with you friends, and learning from our conversations. This just makes me so happy ! It might sound weird, but it feels like I have friends all over the world to exchange with about illustration and art - I never actually had real life friends who were interested in illustration ! All of my friends are following their own beautiful paths, but none of them likes drawing really. So I have always been dreaming of meeting someone who would share my love for drawing and illustration, with whom I could talk for hours about colours, shapes, paints, and our favourite children's books illustrators. With whom I could sit in a café and draw together for a whole afternoon, and spend time at the bookshop hunting little treasures in the chilren's book section. Well friends, I feel like you are that kind of friends to me ! Even if of course we cannot sit at a café or go to bookshops, we can talk a lot about art and illustration, and little everyday life things that inspire us... and this is so amazing to me !</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I don't want to talk for too long here because I am afraid it might get boring at some point (please don't run away friends, I am talkative when I write - I am not s much when I speak hahaha - but I promise I will try my best to keep it... "kind of" short :-) ). So here I just wanted to share these thoughts with you, and little bits of my quiet morning here, next to the window, painting my little bear character for probably the last time (I finished my bear book in February but I am painting an extra illustration for a print the publisher is going to give away with pre-orders !).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">What if this blog could actually become <i>this</i>, nothing fancy but a space where we can <i>talk and exchange</i> even more in depth than on Instagram ? As much as I love IG, it is not the most practical when it gets to long posts or messages, because it is made to be fast and quick and easy and for people not to spend too much time reading my silly thoughts !</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I would love to know if you feel like this could be a good idea :-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I hope you have a beautiful, sunny day (and even if it is not sunny, a funny and happy one !) ♥</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">See you soon !</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><u>PS</u> : I <i>just</i> discovered how to add grain to my pictures and I believe it must be quite a "hipster" thing to do, but I can't help, I just love it so much ! I find the pictures look so charming like that hahaha - is it too much, too unatural ? Please let me know what you think about these hipster grainy photos !</span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf6363;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">J'espère que vous allez bien ! La semaine dernière (ou celle d'avant, je ne sais plus trop, j'ai mis un peu de temps à monter tout ce que j'avais filmé !), comme le soleil s'était caché (bon, d'ailleurs, il n'est pas encore vraiment revenu), j'ai décidé de contrer le ciel tout gris en couvrant une page de mon sketchbook de croquis de fleurs !</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf6363;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Pour cela, je me suis aidée du livre "The concise British flora in colour" de W. Keble Martin, un joli livre que j'ai trouvé chez un bouquiniste la dernière fois que je suis allée à Edimbourg. Et puis, comme il y a quand même eu un jour ou deux de beau temps, je suis aussi allée dessiner un peu des fleurs de la vraie vie dans le jardin ! </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf6363;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Il m'arrive de culpabiliser lorsque je passe du temps à gribouiller dans mes carnets au lieu de travailler sur mes différents projets ou commandes, mais je me rends toujours compte par la suite que cela vient en fait enrichir mon travail - maintenant, j'ai un peu plus de genre, formes et couleurs de fleurs qui me viennent instantanément à l'esprit lorsque je dois en intégrer dans une illustration (c'est-à-dire, très souvent, puisque je ne peux pas m'en empêcher, et qu'à moins qu'un client ne me l'interdise expressément, il est probable que je continue d'en gribouiller absolument partout jusqu'à la fin de mes jours).</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf6363;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Bref, trêve de blabla, j'espère que ce petit aperçu de mon carnet vous plaira !</span></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf6363;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I hope you are well ! Last week (or the week before, I do not remember actually, it took me so much time to edit everything I filmed), as the sun was hiding behind some moody grey clouds, I decided I would cover one of my sketchbook page with colourful flowers !</span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: #bf6363;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">So I used a very pretty book I bought in a second-hand bookshop last time I went to Edinburgh, called "The concise British flora in colour" by W. Kebble Martin. And, as the sun was coming back little by little, I also decided to go to the garden to sketch "real life flowers" !</span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: #bf6363;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I always feel kind of guilty when I doodle in my sketchbooks instead of working on my projects or commissions, but then I always realise that it actually helps my work quite a lot : now, I have so much more shapes, colours and type of flowers coming instantly to my mind when I need to draw some in an illustration (which means, almost all the time, because I cannot control myself when it comes to flowers - if a client does not explicitely forbidd me to add some, I will always do so !).</span></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #bf6363;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Have a lovely day,</span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: #bf6363;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">See you soon,</span></span></i><br />
<span style="color: #bf6363;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><i>Cécile</i> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Aujourd'hui, j'ai du pain sur la planche - beaucoup de pain sur la planche, mais telle que vous me voyez là, j'ai passé la matinée à regarder les photos prises ces dernières semaines et à retravailler mes favorites, pour m'entraîner. Et puis, je me suis souvenu de l'article que j'avais posté en Février 2017, avec des photos de toutes petites choses, prises autour de moi, rien d'extraordinaire, mais jolies. Et j'ai pensé comme regarder cet article régulièrement me fait sourire, il me rappelle que tout (ou presque) peut être joli autour de nous si on le regarde avec un nouvel oeil.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Alors, voilà les jolies choses que j'ai vues au mois de Mai (et un peu fin Avril aussi). J'espère qu'elles vous feront sourire, ou rêver, comme elles m'ont fait rêver lorsque je les ai moi-même regardées avant de déclencher l'appareil.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">(Et puis, promis, je vais me remettre à travailler sur l'article qui parle de la fresque - il faut juste que je trouve le temps et la motivation, que l'alignement des planètes les fassent apparaître pour moi le même jour - mais cela devrait probablement arriver avant fin 2030 !) </span></span><br />
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<br />Coucouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16175421215929825951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514456523953954779.post-74549233757294205972018-02-14T05:45:00.004-08:002018-02-14T05:59:38.630-08:00Zodiac<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Last November, I received an email. It was coming from Spur Magazine redaction, and I was asked to illustrate the two pages horoscope of the magazine - I had to draw the twelve signs, plus a larger illustration per month during a whole year. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The very first issue where my little guys are printed came out in January, the 23rd precisely.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><i><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">En
Novembre dernier, j'ai reçu un mail. En provenance de la rédaction de
Spur Magazine, on me demandait d'illustrer leur page d'horoscope - je
devrais dessiner les douze signes du zodiac, et peindre une
illustration-bannière par mois pendant douze mois. </span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><i><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Le premier numéro imprimé avec mes petits gugusses dedans est paru en Janvier dernier, le 23 très exactement.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">And it feels so great and strange to see, for the third time, my little painting printed inside a magazine, to hold them in my hand and think that other people, that I don't even know (!), will see them, while reading - maybe in the underground, maybe in their living room, maybe during a break at work, maybe after a long day, resting on a couch. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><i><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Et je suis plus qu'heureuse de voir, pour la troisième fois, mes petites peintures dans les pages d'un magazine, de les tenir entre mes mains, et de penser que d'autre gens, que je ne connais même pas (!), vont les voir, en lisant - peut-être dans le métro, peut-être dans leur salon, peut-être pendant la pause au travail, peut-être après une longue journée, installés confortablement dans un canapé moelleux.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I don't know if I will ever get used to this strange, scary, sweet feeling and thoughts, but I surely hope I won't. Because it feels like Christmas everytime I open the magazine, and look for the page, and see how beautiful and clean and professional-looking and great the magazine is looking - how can even my messy doodles be there ? I don't know, but it does feel like I am receiving a gift everytime.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><i><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Et je ne sais pas si je finirai par m'habituer à ces étranges, effrayants, doux sentiments et pensées, mais j'espère vraiment que non. Parce que j'ai l'impression d'être au jour de Noël à chaque fois que j'ouvre le magazine, et que je cherche la page, et que je vois en feuilletant comme le magazine est beau, et propre, et bien organisé - comment est-ce que mes gribouillis ont bien pu se retrouver là ? Je n'en sais rien, mais c'est comme si je recevais un cadeau, à chaque fois.</span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Can you believe I am actually writing two articles consecutively ? I know, it seems insane, it probably never happened before. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">But I feel like this blog deserves a little more than just one article every three months !</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Anyway, enough chatting, I am here today to show you a little bit of process behind a (simple) illustration (yes, simple, because for the moment I do not have a good camera or anything I wish I had to be able to show you more process behind bigger things... but one day will come when I will !).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Last year, when I was living in Edinburgh, I went to the see the sea for my birthday. It was very beautiful. And I felt so happy, despite of the grey, cloudy sky. That day, we saw a green van there, selling food to people around - warm soups, sandwiches, tea, cakes, coffee. Everything you need to be happy ! Right ?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">So I took several pictures of it, because I found it really beautiful and thought that it would be a funny thing to draw. And, when I came back home, I tried to draw it. But the truth is... it looked horrible !</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Then, I came back to France, and every time I did not know what to draw, this little van was coming back to my mind. But I also remembered this failed attempt and did not think I would manage to draw it the way I wanted to.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">But, recently, I had to draw another kind of van for a special project I am working on. And I did it ! I drew a van ! And I liked the result (more or less - never perfect). So yesterday, for some reason, this little green vehicle came back to me and I thought "Why not ?". So I did a little sketch, on a random piece of paper, just to see if I could draw the shape of it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">And I felt satisfied with the sketch (I was myself very surprised !). So I decided, (again : why not ?) to scann the sketch and try to colour it in Photoshop. Just to see what it would look like. Because, actually, I felt like the "sketching part" was the easiest step. In fact, I have a confession : I really don't like green in my drawings. I could not really explain what, but it is a shade I really hate using (probably because I don't do it properly). I feel like it is not really in harmony with the rest of my colour palette. But here is the situation : this van is called "The little green van". So I thought that, in the worst case, I could still change the name on the illustration. But still, I thought it was time to challenge myself a little bit, and I tried to find a compromise between the bright green (that would have looked horrible in my drawing) of the real van, and a more faded "grey green" that would fit my palette.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">And, oh, surprise ! I liked it even better than the sketch (which does not happen really often I must admit). So, when the day ended, I was only thinking of the next morning, because (you know, why not ?), I really wanted to try painting it with watercolours.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">So I woke up this morning, I set my watercolour table next to the window (and to the heater, which is great with these wintery temperatures here), and I started to paint. But then, I felt so disappointed again. The colours were nothing like the digital sketch (oh, what a surprise, I know... I don't know what I was thinking, that was obvious). I hated the painting. But then, I thought it was too bad to hate this little van again because of a colour choice. So I mixed and mixed and mixed different colours to finally get to a (kind of) similar grey green. (Okay it is not that grey, and maybe more blue than green really, but I thought it was still a bit green). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="color: #c47a7a;">Voici un petit Gif que j'ai crée à partir d'une illustration postée sur Instagram hier. Mon téléphone n'en a fait qu'à sa tête et a refusé de télécharger le fichier, je n'ai donc pas pu le partager sur mon profil. Du coup (et mille mercis aux abonnés qui m'ont soufflé cette idée ♥), j'ai décidé de le poster ici, comme ça, ceux qui voulaient voir ce personnage bouger pourront y jeter un petit coup d'oeil quand même.</span></i></span></span><br />
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Avant, quand je ne savais pas quoi dessiner, que ça m'agaçait, que je voulais gribouiller quelque chose histoire de dire que je dessinais quand même (pour faire un pied de nez à ce sentiment si agaçant qui nous tire la langue quand on n'arrive pas à dessiner ce que l'on veut), je dessinais des visages. Des visages de filles à chignons, à queues de cheval, à lunettes, à longs cils, à jolies bouches. Mais au bout d'un moment, ça m'a ennuyé, toutes ces filles que je voulais toujours jolies et souriantes.</div>
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Maintenant, quand je ne sais pas quoi dessiner, que ça m'agace, que je veux gribouiller quelque chose histoire de dire que je dessine quand même, je dessine des fleurs et des feuilles et des enchevêtrements de plantes divers et variés.<br />
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Some months ago, when I did not know what to draw, when it was bothering me and I wanted to draw something anyway (just to show that annoying feelinf you get when you cannot draw what you would like to that I could draw something else !), I was drawing faces. Girl's faces, with buns, a lot of fancy hairstyles, glasses, long eyelashes, pretty mouths. But after a while, it bothered me to only draw pretty, beautiful, nice girls.</div>
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Now, when I do not know what to draw, when it bothers me and I want to draw something anyway, I draw flowers and leaves and a lot of different plants and green stuff.
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Les fleurs c'est joli, c'est fin, c'est doux, et ça ensoleille une feuille de papier, ça donne le sourire. Et puis, il y a tellement de formes différentes, de couleurs et de tailles, qu'il est (presque) impossible de se répéter. Elles se prêtent à toutes les techniques ; qu'elles soient des petits gribouillis au crayon, peintes à la gouache, diluées à l'aquarelle ou travaillées digitalement, elles sont toujours un bon exercice.
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Flowers are pretty, delicate, sweet and it brings sunshine to a piece of paper, it brings a smile on your face. And there are so many different shapes, different colours, different sizes, that it is (almost) impossible to repeat yourself. Flowers are good to draw with any medium ; they can be pencil scribbles, gouache painting, watercolour stains or digitally made, and they always are a good exercise.
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Alors quand un jour est gris, quand il est long ou quand je ne sais pas quoi dessiner, je gribouille des fleurs partout, et puis ça me redonne le sourire.
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Thus, when the day is grey, when it is too long or when I do not know what to draw, I doodle flowers everywhere, and it helps me get my smile back.
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<br />Coucouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16175421215929825951noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514456523953954779.post-1996622090033352572017-03-27T10:36:00.003-07:002018-02-14T06:01:57.258-08:00La fille qui sentait le citron<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "raleway" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Ces dernières semaines - depuis Février en fait - ont été je crois, les plus froides depuis que je suis arrivée ici. Il y avait du vent, de la pluie, des nuages, un air gris qui se baladait dans toute la ville. Elle était toujours aussi charmante, oui, mais elle le fut encore plus ce week end, lorsque le soleil a enfin daigné apparaître, sous un ciel bleu comme les eaux du Loch Ness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "raleway" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Et puis, d'un coup, à Saint Andrew Square, ce tout petit carré qui joint - plus ou moins - Leith Walk à Princes Street, lorsque j'ai traversé la rue au feu vert pour aller travailler, il y avait cette fille devant moi, habillée déjà comme si l'été était arrivé, et puis, elle sentait le citron. Je n'ai pas vu son visage, je ne sais pas à quoi elle ressemblait, mais elle a rendu ma journée jolie, avec son odeur d'agrume.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "pt sans" , sans-serif;">Parce que tout et n'importe quoi, surtout n'importe quoi, peut donner des idées, voici des petits morceaux de tout et de n'importe quoi du mois de Février.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Et voici Monsieur Marcel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "raleway" , sans-serif;">Il y a presque un an je crois, j'ai montré quelques petits dessins gribouillés sur des formats de papiers divers et douteux comme je les aime, à Pascale, gérante de l'artothèque de l'Ascap à Montbéliard. Elle m'a alors proposé, avec toute la douceur et la gentillesse que je lui connais, d'organiser
...une exposition. </span><span style="font-family: raleway, sans-serif;">En Février 2017, entre les murs de cette petite maison aux recoins irréguliers qu'est l'artothèque. Plein d'étoiles se sont allumées dans mes yeux et dans mon ventre, et je me suis sentie toute bizarre, toute heureuse. Bref, rendez-vous a été pris entre mes dessins et les murs blancs pour Février 2017.
S'en est suivi une longue période où je n'ai pas dessiné plus que d'habitude, et gardé mon rythme tranquille de toujours. Probablement, je ne me rendais pas encore bien compte de ce qu'une exposition représentait. Puis, à partir du mois d'Octobre, les choses ont commencé à s'accélérer. Il ne me restait plus que quatre tout petits mois pour tout boucler.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "raleway" , sans-serif;"><i>Almost one year ago now, if I remember well, I showed some of my little messy drawings, my strange, weirdly cut pieces of paper to Pascale, the manager of an art library in Montbéliard (France). That afternoon, she suggested, kindly and generously, as I always knew her, preparing
...an exhibition. </i></span><i style="font-family: raleway, sans-serif;">It would take place in February 2017 ; between the white walls of this tiny house full of pieces of art, as charming as its uneven corners. A bunch of stars immediately lit on in my eyes, in my stomach, and I felt so weird, and I felt so happy. It was real : my drawings had a meeting planned with these walls 11 months later.
After that, I spent months drawing as I always did, unevenly, some days more than others. Probably, I did not realise yet what an exhibition really meant. And then, from Octber onwards, things started to speed up. I only had four very short months to finish everything.</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "raleway" , sans-serif;">Et puis il y a eu des jours où j'ai pensé ne jamais pouvoir fait ce qu'il fallait, ou je me suis demandé si vraiment, mes dessins méritaient une exposition toute entière rien que pour eux. J'ai eu des sueurs froides. Et puis d'autres jours où, pleines d'idées soudainement, j'étais pleine d'espoirs et d'entrain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "raleway" , sans-serif;"><i>There has been some days when I thought I would never be able to do everything I had to do, when I wondered if my drawings really deserved a whole exhibition, just for them. I've been scared. And there has been some other days when, suddenly, my head was bursting with ideas, I was filled with hope and enthusiasm.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "raleway" , sans-serif;">Puis, finalement, Février a pointé le bout de son nez. Je dessinais des ours à n'en plus finir, des arrêts de bus et des fleurs partout. J'ai commencé une petite BD de rien du tout pour raconter cela. Je la posterai sûrement un de ces prochains jours, lorsque j'aurai pris le temps de la terminer. Et puis lorsque finalement il a été temps d'accrocher toutes ces choses minuscules encadrées sur les grands murs blancs, ç'a été tout bizarre. Tout bizarre et puis, ça m'a fait sourire. C'était effrayant, et en même temps, il était enfin l'heure de se rassurer ; tout était terminé à temps. Mais il restait encore une étape, pas des moindres ; celle du vernissage, voir sur les visages si ces petits morceaux de rien du tout réussiraient, un peu, à entrer dans les imaginaires de qui les regarderaient.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "raleway" , sans-serif;"><i>And, in the end, February came. I was drawing bears, all the time, bus stops and flowers, everywhere. I started a very small comic to tell about this feeling. I might post it one of these days, after I take the time to finish it. And when we finally had to hang these framed drawings on the big white walls, it has been strange. Very strange, and it made me smile. It was frightening, and in the same time, it was time, finally, to feel quiet ; everything had been finished in time. But there was still a step, last but not least ; the opening evening, the time to see on the faces if my small pieces of drawing could, at least a bit, touch the people who would be looking at them.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "raleway" , sans-serif;">Et ce soir-là est arrivé, et j'avais peur, très peur, mais petit à petit, la peur a fini par s'effacer un peu pour laisser place à de la joie et surtout, beaucoup de gratitude. Je voulais remercier tout le monde, chaque personne qui s'était déplacée pour voir mes petits dessins, et leur dire qu'ils étaient un peu fous d'être venus seulement pour ça, mais comme cela me touchait. Et puis à force de répéter "merci" à tout va, ce mot a semblé perdre son sens, et c'était énervant, mais je ne savais pas quoi dire d'autre, je pensais seulement "merci", pendant toute la soirée. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "raleway" , sans-serif;">Alors merci, à tous ceux qui sont venus voir ces petits bouts de papier. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "raleway" , sans-serif;">A Pascale, qui m'a donné cette très très belle opportunité, et pour son aide, sa douceur et sa présence rassurante. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "raleway" , sans-serif;">Et puis à tous ceux, qui se reconnaîtront je l'espère, qui sont toujours un peu dans mes dessins.
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<span style="font-family: "raleway" , sans-serif;">Trève de mercis, et à la prochaine !</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "raleway" , sans-serif;"><i>And that evening came, and I was scared, so scared, but little by little, fear started to fade away and be replaced by joy and gratefulness, loads of gratefulness. I wanted to thank everybody, each person who came to see my drawings - and tell them how crazy they were to come only for that, but how much it meant to me. And, because I was repeating "thank you" all the time, these words started to loose their meaning. It was frustrating, but I did not know what else to say, because all I was thinking for the whole evening was "Thank you". </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "raleway" , sans-serif;"><i>And to all of them, who I hope will recognise themselves, and are always a bit in my drawings.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "raleway" , sans-serif;"><i>Enough thank you, see you next time !</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #726b4d; font-family: "raleway" , sans-serif;">J'étais toute seule pour la journée et j'avais un carnet de croquis d'observation à remplir sur le thème "Nature" pour mon cours d'illustration. Alors évidemment, le Jardin Botanique d'Edimbourg était la destination idéale pour l'après-midi. J'avais emmené mon carnet, mais il faisait tellement froid que j'ai écarté l'idée de croquer les fleurs sur place après avoir vaguement tracé trois lignes qui m'ont gelé les doigts. Alors je les ai prises en photo, pour les avoir pour plus tard, et puis parce qu'elles étaient tellement jolies, avec leurs pétales qui tremblotaient dans le vent d'Octobre.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "raleway" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>I was on my own for the day and I had a sketchbook to fill with observational drawings. The theme given during my illustration course was "Nature". So, for sure, the Botanical Gardens of Edinburgh were the ideal place to spend the afternoon. I had brought my sketchbook, but the cold made impossible to sketch on location. So I took pictures of the flowers, to look at them later, and because they were so pretty, gently shaking in the wind.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #726b4d; font-family: "raleway" , sans-serif;">Elles ne me plaisaient pas, elles n'étaient pas assez délicates, les couleurs étaient criardes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "raleway" , sans-serif;">Et puis ces jours-ci, avec le soleil qui décline plus tôt, le vent qui se fait plus mordant et plus froid, et le ciel gris, je me suis dit qu'il était temps de ressortir ces petites photographies de fleurs et de m'appliquer à les croquer, plus justement, cette fois.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "raleway" , sans-serif;">Je trouve que dessiner des fleurs, des végétaux, c'est presque aussi difficile que de dessiner un être humain. Il y a une subtilité, une fragilité, des couleurs toujours justes, harmonieuses et belles, des formes qu'on ne peut pas se permettre de changer, et puis en même temps il est impossible de ne pas les changer. Il est difficile de trouver un équilibre entre le réel, le beau modèle, presque parfait, qu'on a devant les yeux, et puis ce que l'on se sait capable de faire, avec notre papier un peu jaune et puis les couleurs de nos crayons.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>One month ago already I started that small serie of illustrations, inspired by the lyrics of a French song called "Il y a" ("There is"). I was thinking about illustrating one song a week for the blog, and that one would have been the first one of a long list. I wanted it, I really wanted it, and the blog needed it so bad - it had been abandonned for so long, I do not even count the days I thought of him with sadness anymore before going back to what I had to do first. Thus the serie about lyrics won't be coming - at least not now.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mais cette petite série-tryptique - qui pour être honnête aurait dû être complétée par une dernière image - me plaît bien encore maintenant, et elle me faisait mal au coeur, toute seule au milieu des dessins scannés rangés dans le dossier "Illustrations". Alors je la sors, je souffle un peu dessus pour faire s'envoler la poussière qui déjà s'était installée là, et je vous la donne.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Et qui sait, peut-être qu'un jour, lorsque les journées feront 45 heures, je pourrai enfin faire aboutir ce projet d'illustration de paroles de chansons. Pour l'instant, celle-ci est un début, et pour sûr, pas une fin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "dosis" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">C'est long. Ca demande de la patience, que je n'ai pas beaucoup. Alors j'essaie de la fabriquer. </span><span style="font-family: "dosis" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">En inventant des rêves, en tissant des histoires, tout en regardant les gouttes glisser sur la vitre. </span><span style="font-family: "dosis" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;">Imaginer des avions, des rues, des portes, des lumières, une musique, une ville la nuit, de l'eau, de la pluie, du soleil, des nuages, des petits gâteaux, </span><span style="font-family: "dosis" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;">des rires, des sourires, des larmes, des joies, des déceptions, des pas, des chemins. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "dosis" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Et se rappeler les lumières dans la nuit, une chaise d'aéroport qui fait mal au dos, des rues que l'on découvre, le soleil qui se couche sur un bateau avec le vent qui souffle dans le visage, le moment d'ouvrir une porte qui changera tout, une enveloppe qui attend sur la table, la course dans les rues la nuit, le vent contre lequel il faut marcher, les fruits au marché, les balançoires face à la mer, la fébrilité, la porte bleue que l'on ouvre et le sourire qui attend derrière, les calendriers dont on tourne les pages, le regard par la fenêtre, les jours qui rallongent, les arbres en fleurs sur un parking, des gâteaux émiettés dans une cuisine un peu sale, un parc un jour de beau temps, les larmes, le tourniquet d'une gare, les touffes d'herbe qu'on arrache, une lumière en haut de la tour, les couloirs, la moquette grise et les taches qu'il y a dessus, un aéroport un peu vide, les rayons d'un supermarché, la salle obscure d'un cinéma, une marche dans des rues, les frissons, les gribouillis, le bureau en bois, les plantes à la fenêtre d'en face, les cartons, le restaurant indien, les soirées sous la tonnelle, et les plis au coin des yeux qui rient.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #946c58; font-family: "dosis" , sans-serif;"><i>The first step is always a little bit difficult, a little bit delicate, so let's not make it rude.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #946c58; font-family: "dosis" , sans-serif;"><i> To wait (transitive verb) - latin attendere, to be attentive</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #946c58; font-family: "dosis" , sans-serif;"><i>1. To stay in a certain place until somebody arrives, something happens or gets ready.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #946c58; font-family: "dosis" , sans-serif;"><i>2. Waiting for acting until something happens, or until a precise date.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #946c58; font-family: "dosis" , sans-serif;"><i>3. To be ready for someone.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #946c58; font-family: "dosis" , sans-serif;"><i>To wait is also, as a fourth definition, the thing I spend most time to do these months. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #946c58; font-family: "dosis" , sans-serif;"><i>That's long. You need patience, I don't have much. So I'm trying to make it up. </i></span><i style="color: #946c58; font-family: dosis, sans-serif;">By inventing dreams, weaving stories, looking at drops slipping on the window. </i><i style="color: #946c58; font-family: dosis, sans-serif;">By imagining planes, streets, doors, lights, music, a city at night, some water, some rain, some sun, some little cakes, </i><i style="color: #946c58; font-family: dosis, sans-serif;">some laughs, some smiles, some joys, some disappointments, some steps, some ways.</i></div>
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<span style="color: #946c58; font-family: "dosis" , sans-serif;"><i>And to remember lights in the night, an airport chair which hurts the back, some streets you discover, </i></span><i style="color: #946c58; font-family: dosis, sans-serif;">the sundown on a boat with the wind blowing your face, the moment when you open a door which will change everything, </i><i style="color: #946c58; font-family: dosis, sans-serif;">an enveloppe laying on a table, the running in the streets at night, the wind against which you have to walk, the fruits at the market, </i><i style="color: #946c58; font-family: dosis, sans-serif;">the swings facing the sea, the nervousness, the blue door that you open and the smile behind it, the pages of the calendar turning, </i><i style="color: #946c58; font-family: dosis, sans-serif;">the look through the window, the days growing longer, the blossom trees on a car park, some crumbled biscuits in a filthy kitchen, </i><i style="color: #946c58; font-family: dosis, sans-serif;">a park on a sunny day, some tears, the turnstile of the train station, the tufts of grass snatched from the ground, a light at the top of the tower, </i><i style="color: #946c58; font-family: dosis, sans-serif;">the corridors, the grey carpet and the stains on it, a slightly empty airport, the sections of a supermarket, a dark cinema theatre, a walk in the streets, </i><i style="color: #946c58; font-family: dosis, sans-serif;">some shivers, some doodlings, the wooden desk, the plants at the side window, the boxes, the indian restaurant, the evenings under the arbour, </i></div>
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<span style="color: #946c58; font-family: "dosis" , sans-serif;"><i>and the wrinkles at the corner of the laughing eyes. </i></span></div>
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