Techniques

Amateur with clay, I make sculptures from time to time when I feel the need to be in  three-dimensional creations.

I draw with pencils, charcoal, ink, pastel.

Encaustic painting or wax painting, used since Antiquity, is a painting technique that uses colors diluted in molten wax, that is, using beeswax as a binder. This paste is used hot. This technique is mainly used in painting on wood.

I make use of inks often in my mixed techniques.

A variant printing technique of woodcut. One uses a piece of lino to engrave a relief. The drawing is created with a sculpting tool. The raised parts (not sculpted) represent the reverse (mirror image) of the parts that will be printed.

I started with oil in my youth. I use it very little at the moment.

Oil and dry pastel on paper by creating several layers and scraping the surface with a sharp tool. Or I use pastel in mixed techniques.

My work is rarely done with tube paint. I prefer to mix pigments with a binder. I often use Kremer pigments.

The scratchbord technique is similar to the engraving technique. The artist "scratches" the surface of black Indian ink to reveal the white clay which is just below. For this, he uses different tools ranging from a simple tip to a scalpel through sandpaper.

As with clay, I work with  wood when I feel the need to work three dimensionally.

Textile work interests me a lot, even if I haven't created much work yet. Fabric of all kinds : wool, silk etc are waiting for me ...

Watercolor by Stockmar and Windsor and Newton on paper using the veil painting method on dry paper or wet on wet method.

Wood glue is very important to me because I do a lot of collage work.