Step 1 - The Drawing

The just beginning, a very light design
with a crayon design paper coloured okra.
It’s just an sketch right now, I have no idea
what it will be really, just an unicorn ride by
a sort of a creature and I still keep free to
modify every things i feel necessary... Making
the drawing of the painting takes a very short
time like half a day because it took me enough
time to think about it before and also because it
is just a schema that I do not need to follow...

Step 2

It seem that the creature riding the
unicorn will be a young lady. I paint
with oil colours diluting with white spirit
and linseed oil using the colours in very thin
laying, this help a lot if you may change the
intensity of the painting.

Step 3

The movement of the unicorn is coming

Step 4

Now they are going well together,
the human creature and the animal.
I have always thought that they were
made to live in a perfect harmony.

Step 5

A little guy is coming designing the way to
the unicorn, the choose of the red hat is the
beginning of the colors that will empty the
painting. It’s nice to begin by a geranium red.
It’s like a guide.

Step 6

Here they come, the problems! Will this guy
be in the first plan or behind the unicorn?

Step 7

I don’t feel him in this position so I try
to make his face smaller but it still doesn’t
fit into the subject, dammit!!

Dammit (in French "merde alors")

Step 8

I forgot to talk about the umbrella because
I was so contraries by the size of the face
of the little guy with the red hat, the umbrella
seem perfect and hopefully the modifications
on the face of this guy suit better. I forgot
to explain the little owl in the hat of the girl
but for me it’s so natural that I just don’t
think about mentioning it.

Step 9

Now things seem to get better, we will see...

Step 10

Now things seem to get better, we will see...

GV. Tomorrow Agnes will tell us the title of her
fantastic Art Work

Step 11

I just do not know from where did this
moon come, it was not expected at all
but it’s like it have ever been on this
unicorn so the title of the painting will be:

“Promenade avec la Lune”

Step 12

I added some colour to the little one

Step 13

I like a lot magpies, they are black and white like
checkerboard, you can play with them...

I wish you a nice weekend……..

Step 14

Now the ground comes, because now it is the spring
time, rabbits can play in the grass...

Step 15

Now the ground comes, because now it is the spring
time, rabbits can play in the grass...

GV - Yes the Rabbits are playing no further comment

Step 16

Step 17

I begin to paint the background, we will have a lake or
an ocean, who knows?!

Step 18

It takes a long time to paint the landscape.
I have to do it in two parts because the oil
paint that I used in transparent laying dry very
fast so the other part will be done later...

Step 19

Atelier in this moment pic: I paint on wood
panels using old glaze technique which consist
in superimposing thin transparent layers of
colors and make it possible to combine fine
strokes and luminous tints. I also use various
alchemical formulas to create my own
pigments, mediums and varnishes.

Step 20

Step by step, trees after trees, leaves after leaves,
the landscape is coming...

Step 21

Step by step, trees after trees, leaves after leaves,
the landscape is coming...


I wish you a nice weekend see you next week.


Listen to Marco Ambrosius Indifference French Waltz

Step 22

It took a very long time and I have to go
fast because the painting is drying very quick.

Step 23

And then appears a little owl hidden in a dead tree. Now
that the landscape is painted, the panel needs at least
one week to dry before beginning the laying concerning
the sky and a clear laying on the landscape too. That is
why I put a post it on it, if I do not wait enough, I can
destroy all the painting in the next step, I have to be
prudent because being patient do not suit with my
very impatient character!

Step 24

Now it comes a very tricky part, I just have
one day for the laying on the sky. First step,
choosing the colors and smear the background.

Step 25

Then begin to mix them together

Step 26

Again and again with a very smooth hand to
do not damage the subject.

Step 27

As I mentioned on 26 :-))) Again and Again

Step 28

Now after at least thousand of brushstrokes
it begins to look like a sky.

Step 29

I begin to clean the top part of the painting
while I am still laying on the landscape

Step 30

Ouf!! It seems OK, if it was not, I would have
had to repaint the whole painting. It is a little
bit stressing but very exciting!

At this point I have to let the lying dry at
least a week, so I am always painting two
or tree panels in the same time, in this way
I can let them dry successively.