THE ILL & THE HEALER. 55x75cm. Gouache, pen and pencil on 250g paper. 2011
Before this serie, I have spent years of practicing contrast without lines, making color stand forthemselves one beside the other, helping eachother to got more impact thanks to the contrast of the ones beside it.
But I felt like changing this rules, I had to find new esthetics, I wanted to be surprised.
I wanted to bring a cynetic dimension to the work.I’ve been working again with limited colors. Just black and white plus red and blue. I’ve been using alternation of lines of diferent colors , I also started to work with shade in oredr to bring a bit of volume to my work that has been flatter and bolder with the years of simplification.
I kept on working on faces, mixing lines thanks to the juxtaposition of various profiles, and was happy to see how these faces seemed to move, floating on the paper.
I & THE SHADOW. 20x30cm. Gouache, pen and pencil on 250g paper. 2011
I & THE SHADOW.(Detail). Gouache, pen and pencil on 250g paper. 2011
I started with one and then just let my hand keep on till almost 12 were done. Here are some of them.
I & THE SHADOW. 20x30cm. Gouache, pen and pencil on 250g paper. 2011