Moved to Wordpress

2009.01.19

newartblogWelcome to my new self-hosted Wordpress template which combines this blog and my personal website – One single URL for everything: kimcpelletier.com ! – I hope you like it :)

Blog:  While the posts from my old blog were successfully transferred, there are still some images that need to be fixed or resized in some of the posts – Apologies for that, I will fix them within the next couple of weeks.

You’ll see there are new neat gadgets on the blog, among other:

  • A random picture from the portefolio gallery uploads at the top right corner of each blog page – You can click on it to see an enlarged version and click on the X to close the lightbox and return to the blog page you were previously viewing – Cool, uh? :)
  • You can subscribe to my blog using the subscribe tool at the far right sidebar to receive email notifications whenever this blog is updated and/or for you techno-geeks out there; receive notifications on your cell phone or on whatever mobile-device-du-jour is your thing :)
  • Comments on the blog only are enabled – I may enable comments on the portfolio gallery page eventually (that is when I figure out how to make this work)

Website:  There is still much to be added on the website – Right now there is only one gallery on the portefolio gallery page; more galleries to be added soon – Among other they’ll be a gallery for paintings in progress.

  • The website will be bilingual so English speaking visitors should expect to have to click on the “English” link there will be – The blog will only be in English – Apologies to my fellow francophone (most of you understand English anyway) translating is very much time consuming and if I’d have to write blog posts in both languages that would take me for ever while I feel that updating and maintaining this blog and website is already using a bit too much time to my tastes and which I should be using to paint and work on other projects.
  • For my Sax On the Web friends, they’ll soon be a saxophone page with photos, mp3s and videos of myself, my saxophone quartet and other sax stuff, I promise :)

Enjoy! :)

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Poinsettia and Skaters

2009.01.16
Still working on the Poinsettia and “les Patineurs” (skaters) paintings – Here’s what they look like so far:

The Poinsettia: This picture doesn’t quite give the correct rendition of the colours unfortunately – The colours are more intense in reality – On the table-cloth, there are some cadmium yellow which I used “as is” straight from the tube, the pinks are really orange-red contrasting with the violet-blue shoadows which have actually more red hues than it shows on this picture – I’ve had to rework the lighter part of the table-cloth as I wasn’t satisfied the first time; the values weren’t correct – I have also had to re-work partof the brick wall and the lamp.

In the above picture (this was my 5th sitting) I took advantage of the fact that the paint was still very wet on the table cloth to juxtapose the bottle of wine in the back to allow smothening of the edges which of course have to be less clear than the edges of objects closer to the observer – I’m not sure at this point if I’m going to work more on the bottle or if I’m going to leave it as is – I kind of like the impressionist feel of it right now; Maybe that I’ll do that, maybe that I won’t go nuts on the details to acheive realism.

Les Patineurs: This is the one I’m experimenting with Impasto for the first time; the one I have noidea what I’m doing – I haven’t work as much on this one than on the other painting because the liquin really smells like hell and I have to open the windows and given that we’re in January well… opening the windows when it’s -30°C outside isn’t exactly my idea of fun. I try to work on this painting on the milder days and in short painting sessions.
It is almost done anyway; there isn’t much left to do. The skaters need to be done and perhaps ad a few details here and there and that’s it – There are some pink and blue hues in the snow and ice which you can’t see too well on this picture – I’m not 100% satisfied with this painting. I think I wasn’t able to achheive the righ values; the pale colors are too pale and the dark colors are too dark in my opinion – I’m also having a hard time getting used to work this way; I feel limited since I cannot go into fine details but rather stick to rough sketching or representation of details – But that’s part of the experimentation anyway; I can’t know unless I try it – I personally think that this painting looks better on the photo than for real. Yet all other people that have seen it in reality say they really like it – I guess perhaps that I’m a bit biaised because of the fact that I feel limited working with that technique?
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