painting – coralie's contemplations in markup

Art: Mickey-Raccoon (step by step)

Wet blue paint around the cat and in his eyes. The ceramic pan is nearly empty.

Gouache painting of my siberian cat, Mickey-Raccoon, curled up on the side.

(Commission from DanielD for his sister who regularly gives me hand-made ceramic items <3)

Step by step

Loose pencil sketch on a watercolour paper pad. On the table around it are ceramic pans where I mixed blue paint, grey paint and brown paint. There is a water jar and brushes, and the gouache tubes.

My right hand holding a brush and mixing brown with grey to add darker patches to the fur of the cat on paper.

Art: Payne’s Grey Dragon

Blue grey ink strokes depicting a large dragon in front of a small girl with arm raised. I wrote underneath a birthday greeting in French for my 16 year-old son.

For my son’s 16th birthday, I painted a dragon. Adrien wanted me to paint some version of Toothless and Light Fury from the movie series “How to train your dragon”. I had intended to paint them in gouache. But in the meantime I discovered the Sennelier Payne’s Grey ink brushpen.

This is after a digital artwork sketch by William Morris-Julien who is creative director in the video games industry.

Finished piece framed in white wood and white mounting mat

Resulting painting framed in white wood. The picture mount hides the birthday greeting.

He liked it well enough.

Art: Lago di Como, 3 (step by step)

The final piece in the series of Lake Como poster art that I’m painting with acrylic paint markers.

This is a flowery balcony overlooking the lake and coastline under a grey sky.

Finished piece, dated and signed in thin black ink, next to the 15 markers I used.

The final result.

I used 15 acrylic paint markers, including the white to delineate snow on mountains on the horizon, and mark villages on the green hills.

The size of the painting is 8.5 x 12.5 cm.

It took me 4 hours to complete.

An entire hour was spent choosing the right colors among the 60 markers that I have.

Step by step

Loose pencil sketch on textured watercolour postcard. The outline marks a bush of flowers in the foreground and where the land it around the lake.

Preparatory sketch on a sheet of regular printing paper where I tried out many of my paint markers which are scattered around the pages on the wooden table.

The three pieces in the series, framed, and propped against the reflective surface of my piano — The framed three postcards in the series of Lake Como poster art interpretation

Art: Lago di Como, 2 (step by step)

Second piece for my series of Lake Como poster art interpretation. I’m having such a nice time with the acrylic paint markers!

View on an island in a lake seen from behind a couple enjoying the view. In the background are mountains. On the island are a few houses and a tower amidst a lot of greenery. The entire foreground (couple, plants, balustrade, cypress trees) are silhouettes.