life drawing 06-06-07

A day of painting in Mascouche

It was a day of painting at the family day festival in Mascouche. I was painting at the Festival Peinture a Mascouche under a tree. We had great weather. I did 2 paintings. One of my daughter (above) and my first plein air painting (below). I really enjoyed the time I had over there.



Kids were invited to paint on giant canvases or their individual masterpieces.

My spot under the tree. My first time using my sketchbox easel.

The Festival Peinture a Mascouche kiosk.

One day charcoal portrait workshop

Hi, I will be giving a one day charcoal portrait workshop on the Saturday May 19, 2007. It will start from 10am to 4pm. The morning will be a demo to show the process and techniques of portrait sketching using charcoal. The afternoon will be the hands on and I go around to do the guidance. To sign up you can contact Chantal Peterson at 450-474-4133 x273 or visit the Festival Peinture a Macouche website http://www.festivalpeinturemascouche.com. Hope to see you there.

Life Drawing April 25, 2007

Portrait Society of Canada

http://www.portraitsocietyofcanada.com

I have been accepted to the Portrait Society of Canada recently. There are some pretigeous portrait artist from all over Canada. Juan Martinez, Yuqi Wang to name a few.

life drawing April 11, 2007

drawings and exercises

Hybride Rink

This is too cool! An ice rink at the back of Hybride Studio. I can go skate or play ice hockey at lunch time which is the only exercise I am getting right now. Somebody discovered a little pond just a stone throw's away from Hybride's parking lot.

New Job

I got a new job on December at Hybride Technologies doing animation. I am really happy to be working and learning from the pros who did SFX on Spy kids, Sin City, Snakes on a Plane and 300 to name a few. http://hybride.com

New easel...woohooo!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I got myself a new easel from costco for a fraction of a mabef easel. And it has a crank! I am glad I waited around or else I would have paid 4x or more.

Pastel & a portrait demo

I did a portrait demo for my class. This is an early stage of the portrait but its turning out ok. Resemblance is there.

Life Drawing October 2006

fall 2002 by Claude DeLorimier

This is the painting I bought at the festival. Fall 2002 by Claude De Lorimier. It is hanging in our diningroom right now. Just lovely...

David Kassan

David isone of the leading artist/teacher in New York. You can visit his site to check out his awesome paintings. http://davidkassan.com

Color Correct?

My monitor needs to be changed. Here is a color correct of the 2 paintings I did. The right side is the closest to the actual painting. Left one is the initial taken from my camera.

Thanksgiving painting festival

The past long weekend was the Painting festival in Mascouche. I won an honourable mention on the drawing 'Karl' in charcoal. I am very surprised that I won. There was a lot of really good artists and their works. I also participated on an onsite symposium where I did a portrait of Karl and figure of him from photos.


This is Jean Guy Carier, one of the instructors for watercolor. We put the 2 painting up for publicity for course in 'basic drawing' and 'figure drawing'.

This is Claude De Lorimier (right). This is the second year she is present at the festival. This is also second time we bought a painting from her. :)

Claude working away with her artworks in the background. The one I bought is the one behind the canvas (beside the 4 small ones). Her work is breath taking...

By the Brook - after W.A.Bouguereau

Finally. This painting has been in storage at my brothers house for the last 10 years. I did this painting as a study. With digital photos and internet, I have resources to really great references and I think I will continue working on it. William Bouguerau is one of my favorite artists of all time. His attention to detail and color is just out of this world.

painting festival mascouche

Its that time of year again. Every year I participate the painting festival in Mascouche, Quebec. This year I will be hanging up a couple of figure drawings, landscapes and a portrait of Mike Hussar. He is one of many artists that inspires me. This is his site. http://www.michaelhussar.biz/


Like every year there will be around 150 artists displaying their works over the Thanksgiving long weekend. Amateurs, semi professional and professional cagetory. I am on the semi-pro category.
I also will be doing some painting or drawing on site over there. It should be fun. It would be my first time working in public. Actually it going to be nerve wrecking I think...

animation demo

I finally made an animation demo. Most stuff are from game animations. Its about 7 mb.
http://josefsy.com/graphics/animation/josefsy_demo_sml.mov