Be aware : this is a French text I passed through a translator, so pardon me if it's sometimes sounds a bit strange for American native language.
Thanks.
VAUDOU
This picture is to the departure a big board of wood (80cm X 60 cm).
I passed the gecko over (species of white painting of habiliment).
Then, taking inspiration of several photos of the magazine " Photos ", I put in room my characters and objects. Photos were in black and white and very dark but I saw them in colour and more brightness.
I lengthened arms of the first plan character considerably, I felt it to endure the sincerity of his mystical gesture, I heard him to implore the swirling souls and tortured of deaths buried in the mud. The other character is in complete trance, he is possessed completely and in symbiosis with the fetid mud.
To low the drama emotion, I placed some simple domestic objects, believable in relation to the topic, that makes that one preserves a certain contact with the world of the real and the living. I added a candle symbol of the tie between deaths and the living and privileged object of hypnotists.
When my drawing was finished, I took my knives (to paint, not to launch on a target of circus or to cut up poultry and other capons), of the huskiness dough (kind of dough to thick wood) and I sculpted the main character how (his/her/its head, his/her/its arms, his/her/its fingers, his/her/its body) and the floating objects, I added tortuous shapes in the mud to simulate the agitation of the teeming waters of indefinable shapes.
I could not have stopped myself from thinking about the hell of Dante (Divine Comedy).
Finally, the longest, to put colours.
The technique of the glaze is long because one must wait that every layer is dry before passing the following, and that takes (according to the quantity of medium that one adds to the oil painting) of 1 to several weeks, and every successive layer is more and more long to dry, but that remains the best way to give an unspeakable depth impression to a picture.
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