N's PAINT WORLD

Taches de couleur

2011-02-08T12:49:00.001+09:00

At one moment or the other when using paint, the paint is bound to end up in a different place than where you want it to be — with entertaining or interesting results, sometimes.

Woodblock New Year Card

2010-12-20T14:34:00.000+09:00

Done with the fifty Christmas / New Year cards.
Discontent with the rather plain potato-printed cards from last year, I decided to try woodblock printing this year. It went alright.

All you need to do is find a piece of wood, carve it (those small sets for children help a lot), get your cards and paint ready, and get on with the printing, without forgetting to wipe the woodblock from time to time.

A few pics, in great disorder.

Nudes Republished

2010-09-14T06:21:00.000+09:00

The other day I was remembered that most of my pseudo-nudes had been forcibly removed from Windows Live a couple of years ago — a painted bit of a nipple, breast or sex being labeled as indecent in these censor days. Here are a few of them. Lots of blue, I know.

Kindergarten Love

2010-07-30T12:31:00.003+09:00

It's always heart-warming to get hand-made thanks from kids.

A New Bento

2010-06-06T16:40:00.002+09:00

Just to let you know that our Photo-Lunchbox was recently reset and redesigned. A visual archive was also added.
None of our paintings in there, though !

A tree

2010-04-18T15:43:00.003+09:00

A tree (acrylics on canvas).

I would really like to find time to paint again.

I guess for now I take pictures instead.

Tiger Card

2010-02-24T13:55:00.024+09:00

A li'l' thank-you card for the one I got from some great kids from a kindergarten in Wakayama.

No computer needed : some color pencils, a black felt-tip pen and a few minutes are all it takes.

Cut Painted Paper Robot

2010-02-14T13:43:00.003+09:00

Another cut painted paper light work — an old-fashioned sort of robot — quickly done in class for the example's sake. We used the scraps from last time. Nothing much to say about it !

Potato-Printed Xmas / New-Year Cards

2009-12-23T13:01:00.003+09:00

Since there has been a death in my Japanese family-in-law, I am not supposed to send New-Year cards this time. Still, I thought I would send Christmas cards, and made one the other day, using the same — quite fun, I have to say — technique as last year : potato printing. Yes, just like when you were in kindergarten. The basics are similar to normal printing, stamping or seals.

That is pretty easy too :

1) take a potato

2) cut it in half

3) carve it with whatever you see fit (a cutter this time) and be careful to do it in "negative" as well as not to cut yourself right

4) spread paint on whichever surface

5) dip the potato in it

6) potato-print on a card (hand-made Japanese paper is great for that)

7) all done

I wish I could have shown you what the carved potato halves looked like, but it seems my wife has thrown them away already. Never mind.

Have fun.

A merry Christmas and a happy New Year to all.

Colors & Co.

2009-09-13T12:55:00.004+09:00

An old video found while searching for something else.
Happens a lot.

Couleurs & Cie / Colors & Co.
Exhibition at morioka shoten
(Tokyo)
2007-12

Cut Painted Paper Animals

2009-09-06T18:50:00.001+09:00

'Tis quite easy to make cut painted paper pictures :
1) you paint
2) you cut
3) you paste
4) all done

These animals were made, as said before, after Eric Carle — can't remember the name of the books. I picked in three different ones. Mediocre and rough craftmanship, since it was only meant as a guide for a kid.

Cut Painted Paper Bookmarks

2009-08-31T23:26:00.011+09:00

Time-killer & gift-making.

Long time no see.

Some time ago, I made a few abstract bookmarks with cut painted papers.
Here are two of them. I don't think I have them anymore : birthday presents, I assume.
My memory doesn't work too well these days.

Recently, I've been making animals with the same technique, after Eric Carle, for the summer assignment of one of the Japanese children students of mine.
I'll post them here some day soon.

I hope all is well.

Visual Japanese Books

2009-08-31T22:42:00.003+09:00

A few months ago, I created an on-line bookstore specialized in visual — photography, illustrated & fine-arts — second-hand and rare Japanese books :

A Japanese Book / Un livre japonais

Come and say hello.

There is also a more specific blog page, where you can leave comments.

Cheers.

久しぶりです。

2008-12-06T09:27:00.009+09:00

Windows Live has been updated. I don't quite know if it's for the better. I just hope pictures don't get lost in the process. It looks a bit like Flicker now. Here are the new links to the albums of De peu pour faire un monde.

Dilettantpis IMAGES (selected paintings)

Dilettantpis PAPIERS PEINTS (selected works on paper)

Dilettantpis LES CHOSES (selected things)

Sorry for the lack of updates here : I haven't been painting lately. I hope everyone's alright.

n

Edit : the new diaporama option looks quite good I have to say : have a try.

レビュー

2008-02-10T11:14:00.002+09:00

皆さん、こんにちは。

この間のイベントのことをもっと知りたかったら、「カメラ日和 vol.17 2008 / 3月号」を読んで下さい！

では、また！

終りました！

2007-12-19T08:59:00.002+09:00

映画と展示会を視に来てくれました皆さんにありがとうございました！

色んな人に知り合って話して楽しかったですよ！

また森岡書店に遊びに来て下さいね！

ではまた！

ニコラ

Couleur & Cie.

2007-11-22T10:40:00.003+09:00

Exposition d'une sélection de tableaux peints
chez Morioka Shoten, du 10 au 15 décembre 2007,
日本103-0025東京都中央区日本橋茅場町2-17-13 第2井上ビル305号森岡書店
JAPAN, 103-0025, TOKYO, Chuo-ku, Nihonbashi, Kayabacho, 2-17-13, Dai-2 Inoue Building, 305.
Chaque jour, de 13 à 19h, entrée libre.
Dans le même temps, projection du long-métrage Lumière et Cie de Sarah Moon.
Renseignements complémentaires sur le site
http://www.moriokashoten.com
Salutations !

Greetings !
Exhibition of selected paintings
at Morioka Shoten, from 2007, december 10 to 15,
日本103-0025東京都中央区日本橋茅場町2-17-13 第2井上ビル305号森岡書店
JAPAN, 103-0025, TOKYO, Chuo-ku, Nihonbashi, Kayabacho, 2-17-13, Dai-2 Inoue Building, 305.
Everyday, P.M. 1:00-7:00, free entrance.
In the same while, Sarah Moon's movie Lumière & Cie will be screened.
Further information on the webpage
http://www.moriokashoten.com

ぜひ遊びに来て下さい！