As I was in the North of France with my family, we went to visit the Matisse museum in Le Cateau-Cambrésis – his birth place. Palais...

Quick prototyping consists in iterating quickly different versions of the same project in order to test your ideas. It is practical when th...

This is an unusual post born from a “what if” question. I see some connections between species of trees and some artists’ bushstrokes. Cam...

Last week-end had a feel of summer in the South of England and we went to Lacock to visit the Abbey. The entry of the Abbey's ...

Charles Gounod , a French composer, won the Prix de Rome in 1839 and stayed at the Académie de France in Rome when Jean Auguste Dominique In...

The Victoria & Albert museum (V&A) in London (England) claims to be “The world's greatest museum of art and design” and it is ...

This article was first published in my newsletter "Notes From My French Easel" – July - August 2011.  The most famous and ofte...

In her book “Life with Picasso” Françoise Gilot remember a visit she made with Picasso to the vaults he had for his paintings, at one of the...

Monument to Balzac, Auguste Rodin - Photograph by Jeff Kubina (Source Wikimedia ) “And that which is considered ugly in nature ofte...

This article was first published in my newsletter "Notes From My French Easel" – June 2011.  The Oxford dictionary defines “Hu...

In an interview with American Artist magazine ( En Plein Air: A Conversation With Camille Przewodek , 25 Jun 2009 by Allison), Camille Przew...

I am in Paris (France) at the moment and while walking in the nearby Neuilly-sur Seine, I stumbled across several trompe l’oeil paintings on...

At the moment, I am reading the Picture of Dorian Gray on my Amazon Kindle. If you know the story, a painting plays a central role in the p...