Book Typographie Assignment SVA.

I love typography. I registered to a class last september to learn about it. After 2 sessions, I decided to give up. It was not challenging enough.
One assignment : A logo for Bobby Flay restaurant.
it's tough to look at old work. I wish I could then have done better.

December 9th, 2006 the beginning of everything.... It was Manon's birthday. She was my source of inspiration. A sleep over with 5 little girls talking incessantly until 3 am. I should thank them.
Note: Don't be fooled: these paintings are very small. It was too intimidating to start big. Plus I had no material. I made these with the gouache of my children.

Dear all,
I've been moonlighting for one month to practise graphic design and fine arts. It's a beginning. I have to keep going at it if I want to become really good. There are out there a lot of really good -young- designers and painters.
Here is the work I've done so far in January (except for the Zubi Logos). Each week, I've been trying to create new designs and drawings.
It's bliss.

I've experimented with the mouse. Not easy to move it smoothly. I think I am going to buy a pen tablet.

Red District; between clients, an Indian prostitute finds the time to read.

My first painting of a person. I had a photograph which I tried to replicate. Not easy. I have to take Brian's class.

I was asked to do a business cards and letterhead for a lawyer.
It was an opportuity to learn Illustrator and Photoshop. I also had to learn how to prepare a file for a printer. In design we always forget that production side of it which is so important.

25 posters assignment. Class at SVA.

25 posters assignment. Class at SVA.

Assignment. 25 posters. SVA.

Project for SVA. Part of 25 posters assignment.

1st assignement for my graphic design school. "What do you like doing at work and let's have you paid for it".

I worked this one over and over again. I find the end result interesting. The colrs are not easy to like.

I liked the composition of a photo. I wanted to work on it. The end result was something COMPLETELY surprising. I discovered a style. Not for everyone.

An angel doing trapeze. After all these beings need to have fun a bit.
This painting makes me smile.
pS: I added threads to do the "trapeze" effect...

I am starting a graphic design class tonight. I have to present one of my work on Photoshop. 2 versions of "Screams".

A copy of a photo I found online on a blog against Child prostitution in India.
The painting looks very realistic. A bit like a picture.
I worked with oil.

I first worked with gouache. Not happy with the results, I finished it on Photoshop.

I don't know why but I've had these pictures in my head of southern vegetation at nightime. This one was the 3rd one of a serie. I wanted to show that there was life at night on the water. Surrounding the nenuphars, insects are budding and lighting the flowers. In the back of the picture are human habitats near the water.

I was was painting I was listening to a celebrity talking about what I thought was pollution or a factory of some kind. Now that I think about it, I am sure it had nothing to do with it. But inspired by what I thought I was hearing, my drawing became a picture of city projects "attacked" by twisters, a direct consequence of our neglect for our environment.

The first drawing in the serie of Southern Vegetation. It's day time.

The mystery of night life near a pond. It's warm. I could seat there for hours, the pond lighted by the moon.
The first in the serie of Southern Vegetation.