Patrice @patricepoly@mastodon.art

Hello ! I'm a french painter, all new here. Making my first steps to discover Mastodon and the mastodon.art community :)

Here is a #portrait study in #oils that I made last week

credits : https://www.deviantart.com/faestock/art/Sitting-Princess-14-93464365

#oilpainting #art #traditionalart #mastoart

Blocking-in for a #commission #pencil #portrait. Toddlers do have facial structure too when you look for it :) #graphite #traditionalart #art #drawing

I have just been testing a 100% recycled heavy paper for a #linocut #postcard series project, it turns out to work really good ! I am really happy as it is quite difficult to find such a paper where I live. #art #traditionalart #mastoart

Varnishing time : the whole house stinks, you hate your cat's hairs, but you are suddenly that 8 years old kid again, amazed at what a coat of water does to a dull pebble 🤩 #oilpainting #art #traditionalart

I finally put the last corrections to this #commission portrait of two brothers. I have had some hard time due to the backlit reference picture which I was given to work with, so I had to invent most of the forms in the shadows. In the end I think likeness is here. #oilpainting #portrait #art #traditionalart #mastoart #oil

Il faut se secouer maintenant ! https://twitter.com/valmasdel/status/1154429869284941825 #climat #climate

Work in progress : #painting a #portrait in #oils of two brothers for a #commission. It has been impossible to paint due to the heat these days... Today at last we had cool rain and fresh air so I could get at it again :-) I need to calm down my contrasts it seems they are going to play theater, when they should not ! #art #oilpainting #mastoart

Hand light study in #oils - I liked the outdoors lightning on the reference, and the grace of the hand pose. So it was a pleasant subject to practice turning form with color temperature 😁 #oilpainting #art #mastoart #traditionalart #painting #hand

I'm reading the french edition of "Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color" by Philip Ball ( "Histoire vivante des couleurs : 5000 ans de peinture racontée par les pigments" ) - Art history seen with the eyes of a chemist : how did pigment availability change art through the ages. It is a really neat book for those who care about matter 🤓

More oil pixels 😂 I've been speed mixing this afternoon with a poster study for a commission portrait . It is damn hot here now #oilpainting #oil #art #pixels #pixelart #mastoart #portrait

I'm now on #pixelfed too https://pxlfd.me/patricepoly Can't wait for federated timeline there 🤗

Did you notice that dioxazine and flake are the two ones paint tubes that leak, and that you really don't want that ?

Almost there ! I will want to fix some little things here and there but I think she is grounded now 😅 I have quite some sunken in areas, I think I will have to better seal the canvas next time #oilpainting #portrait #art #traditionalart #mastoart #oil

where the heck on earth can you talk gluing photo paper to polyester fabric with people who really care doing it right ? I get to love mastodon.art😍