Photoshop and Vienna…


A little bit of testing with photoshop today, I must admit I don’t know much about this software, I do know enough to resize, crop and adjust the photos I’m taking for my paintings and drawings but not much more than that, so I decided to run au few tests using a photo taken on a trip to Vienna, long time ago…the photo by itself isn’t a very good one, more of a random shot without knowing to much what I wanted then, so I decided to play with a few settings, I’m not to sure exactly what I did, should have taken a few notes, I know there was some adjustments for lighting, contrast, creating an alpha layer and playing on the  different color channels, so here’s the original, and two versions using those modified settings.

Un petit test avec photoshop, que finalement je connais bien peu, enfin je connais ce que j’ai besoin pour redimensionner, cadrer et améliorer la luminosité et les couleurs, lorsque je photographie mes tableaux, pastels et esquisses, mais je ne m’en suis jamais bien servi pour autre chose, même la photo. Donc un petit essai, avec une photo prise lors d’un voyage à Vienne voilà bien longtemps, la photo, que j’ai utilisé comme fond de tableau, est plutôt ordinaire, donc je me suis dit que je testerais certaines des fonctions, je vous dirais bien lesquelles, mais je ne suis plus sûr…mais je sais que j’ai créé un calque alpha, modifier la luminosité et contraste de chacun des calques,…faudra que je documente plus, mais pour le moment c’est plus un petit jeu, pas sûr que je peux dire que cela donne une bonne photo, maintenant, mais différentes, plutôt deux fois qu’une…la photo originale et deux essais..

The result wasn’t really what I would call a great success, but it is different and more importantly it did gave me a few ideas, and also it gave me the occasion to present something between too many posts about the same painting, I prefer showing a few steps in the same posts, so expect more photography and eventually there will be also a 3d section, yes did play a bit more over the week-end with those softwares and models….and why not showing again the painting I did using this picture as a background..

Comme je le mentionnais pas sûr que le résultat soit aussi édifiant que je l’espérais, mais cela me donne des idées…et aussi du matériel pour combler les jours, et espacer les présentations de tableaux qui changent, mais pas assez ou tout simplement que je préfère attendre avant de présenter une mise-à -jour de certaines de ces toiles.  Je me suis aussi ‘amusé’ avec mes logiciels 3d, et fait des tests avec d’autres modèles, bientôt je ferai aussi une section 3d, et photographie sur ce site, en fait la page est là, il me reste à la remplir…et ajouter des choses.

Et pourquoi pas présenter de nouveau le tableau que j’ai fait en utilisant cette photo

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New and Old…The End/ancien et nouveau…la fin


Belle fin-de-semaine, ensoleillé chaude….que j’ai passé en grande partie dans mon atelier, installé le climatiseur, outil essentiel pour le peintre plus adapté au froid qu’au chaud, que je suis….:) bon voilà pour la météo, maintenant voici la version finale de ce tableau, un autre de cette série de tableaux commencé voilà bien des années, donc méthodes différentes, médiums différents, dont du Liquin….qui pour moi n’a pas donné de bons résultats….la surface de ces tableaux étaient devenus tellement collante, ‘tacky’ en anglais….et extrêmement difficile à travailler, faut dire aussi que je les avais commencé à l’acrylique, et comme au cours des années, ma manière de peindre a changé un peu, et qu’en vieillissant, heu en avançant dans ma ‘carrière’….je suis devenu plus sensible au bon placement des éléments, avant je passais outre plusieurs erreurs de dessin, maintenant je le fais moins ou pas du tout…ce qui parfois coûte…en terme d’heures passées à corriger, et dans certains cas, amene une perte quant à la spontanéité du tableau…bon voilà pour le chapitre ‘histoire de l’art…enfin celle qui s’applique à moi…:), donc voilà les deux dernières versions, avant-hier et hier soir, enfin sur le coup de minuit aujourd’hui…ah minuit pour l’ajout de dramatique à cette signature…:) évidemment j’aurais pu la travailler encore des heures cette toile….

Beautiful week-end so far, hot, getting humid, sunny…week-end largely spent in my atelier….and installing my air cooler unit, essential tool for the more adapted to cooler temperature artist that I am, hot and humid would mean to me, no painting done….so there’s meteo wise part of this post…now finally got to the end of this painting, one of the few painting serie started many years ago, begun in acrylic, then tried other mediums, like liquin…did not work well for me, the canvas became so tacky, close to being unworkable…and many drawings errors, or plainly changing subject, some of these works span more than 7 years, a painter is getting older…oops more experienced…:) and ways of working change, earlier I would have preferred leaving drawing mistakes, or did not see them, than today, where I will often correct small errors, sometimes it is improving the painting, other times I almost lost them, and got them back…but the cost in hours is high and often a lost of spontaneity, so here’s for the art history aspect, at least my art history…:)

But this one I think is almost where I want it to be, of course I could have went again for hours, days…but I thought it was time to sign it….almost on midnight strike today…there’s for the ‘drama’….:)

Samedi soir tard….Saturday night, not live…but late….en fait dimanche matin tôt…in fact sunday morning very early…

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Et vers minuit, en fait minuit plus une…dong, dong, dong….. It was a bit more than midnight, maybe one or two minutes…..dong dong dong…:)
Ouais faut dire qu’avec les horloges numériques et autres, ce n’est plus la même chose….:))
yeah I must say that with internet and electronic clock…no more sound effect…:))

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Old and new…


Retour vers une vieille toile en cours, une vieille toile, avec un vieux bâtiment, qui est reflété dans un nouveau, justement rendu à remettre en place la façade vitrée de ce bâtiment, qui avait disparu, parce que je n’aimais pas ce que j’avais fait du vieux bâtiment, enfin là je crois que je suis en vue de la fin de ce tableau….encore du travail, un peu partout, mais de la finition, surtout sur le modèle, qui n’est pas encore tout-à-fait à mon goût…mais cela ce n’est rien d’inhabituel, ce tableau sera fini, mais probablement pas le modèle, mes modèles, je pourrais les travailler à l’Infini, mais c’est définitivement trop long…:)

Back to an old in progress painting, less older than the old building reflected by the new one…that’s where I am know, getting to put back the glass wall, that was removed because I did not like what I had done before with the older one, so I guess I can say that I’m getting really close to finish it, still work to do on the model, not quite as I want her to look…no surprise there, I can work on her and all the others in my paintings for a long time, close to infinity…but that would be way to long…so this painting will be finished but probably not the model, it will be one version of the numerous ones that I could have paint…..

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Update on Work in progress page and ….


Added a page for an in progress painting, and updated the in progress page, the one of a model wearing boots…you know the one I’m sure….:) ok the one standing in front of a modern building reflection a much older one, older than me…365 Old Mirrorred…yes title is definitely something that undergoes as much change with my works than the painting itself….

I’m still working on the two Cindy,s, but I’m not sure I will have anything to show, and the one above is the ‘next in line’….the new version probably tomorrow or friday…

Also, I guess many of you already know it, I do have my own site and a french one on wordpress also, I did started this one and I thought it was a good idea to keep my french site, french only and my english site english only, but when I write on my jmr-art site, all posts are bilingual so I was thinking that maybe I should just maintain one site on wordpress, and everything would be bilingual, which would mean for me less work, less duplicating pages and everything else and an easier way to keep everything up to date.

So what do you think? I would like to have your thoughts on that, anyhow I will continue working on this site for awhile, but eventually I do have to think about a way to spent less time updating all my sites and more on painting…:)

Old vs New and a model…


Reworked an old one, it’s been on a ‘side track’ for a few weeks now….one of those canvas, started long time ago, tried a few different mediums, they don’t work well together, part of the problem lie there,,,also, my technique and way to see painting I guess has changed, hope evolved…but this too cause a lot of changes, errors made in the previous stages, that I could have left there before, now I can’t…so, it is a long one….but it is coming along…especially that now I think i did resolve the problem with the new building reflecting the ancient one…still work to do on the reflection, but it is shaping…and of course the model itself wasn’t entirely to my liking…she’s also coming…but I guess I will have to wait to sign it….

Since it’s been a long time I did not show this painting, I’ve posted the version made in January and the last two, made during the week-end, and you will found to, the original pictures I’ve used to ‘mount’ this scene…

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and two days ago….

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and last night, in fact early this night….still reworked this morning, but the next pic will be on the next post and painting session…in a few weeks or days at best…

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et les photos qui ont servi au montage de l’esquisse de cette toile…
and the pictures I have used in this painting…

Still the same…


Painting, and a step backward, not an unexpected thing from me…sometimes we just feel that something is wrong, and either you leave it as it is or you don’t, the result….

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and then we slowly try to get back, or start moving forward again, slowly…a bit more work needed, at least a few hours and probably after it will have dried a little bit…

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Update…


I guess I’m due for an update, I’M lacking time to do it, too many sites maybe, but mainly, when you have a full time job, it is difficult to find time to do this, so before going to my ‘atelier’ here’s the latest version of two painting, one is that model wearing a checkered skirt, the other is one that I didn’t worked on for a few weeks…as for Paulina, I will leave it for now, don’t know if I will make more of a full portrait or keep going in the way it has started, kind of ‘eerie’ showing parts of the model…she.’s so beautiful, difficult not trying to do a portrait..maybe I should do both…:)

The pictures…

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and the other, need to work on her face and I want to work on the glassy modern building reflecting the ancient one…

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2012…is here…I’m a bit late…


to get this first posting, actually I’ve been quite absent for the last few weeks….a few reasons, good or not, it is not important….the important thing is to be back….

Another reworked painting, a step backward….I felt that the older building needed more details, so I had to wipo out most of the work done on the glass surface of the modern building…it will be back for the final touches…also a bit more work on the model, still some finishing is due..

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