You can paint without using paint

That’s when I realized that having your own art studio to work in isn’t just a luxury, it’s also the place where you make decisions. It’s the place where every morning you say to yourself, I’ve got to be productive, at the end of the day I’ve got to have produced something, but art isn’t just about execution, painting for painting’s sake has no other interest than the meditative aspect it provides. That feeling of well-being you get after lifting pencil, brush or oil pastel stick for the last time.

Sitting in my art studio, I’m bored, I don’t know where to start, I have so many possibilities that I get lost, so I start the introspection, without oil pastel, but with a sheet of paper and a pencil. I write down everything I like in the works, what I like to see in them, what I can’t stand to see in them and, above all, what I miss in them.

If you force yourself a little, you can find a storytelling, you’re making visual art, I have a lot of interests, comics, cinema, photography, I want to be as sincere as possible in my works, it’s my job to find the link between my three passions. And I’ve found it: I went out for a breath of fresh air, bought some hand soap, my fingers are full of oil pastels, and I’ve figured out how to tie it all together without opening my box of oil pastels.

Now I know what I want to say with my paintings, the execution will be easier because I know where I’m going!