Painting titled "Les Hamadryades" by Eric Lorcy, Original Artwork, Watercolor

Les Hamadryades (2019) Painting by Eric Lorcy

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Original Artwork (One Of A Kind) Painting, Watercolor on Paper

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One of a kind (OOAK / Original Artwork)

One-of-a-kind works of art are also known as “OOAK” artworks. This means that every work of art is unique and there will never be another identical one.
Dimensions Height 16.5in, Width 11.8in
Framing This artwork is not framed
Categories Figurative Mythology

Primée lors d'un concours, cette oeuvre s'inscrit dans mon désir d'illustrer certaines légendes celtiques. Dans la tradition celte le chêne était un arbre sacré. Il était censé abriter les hamadryades, nymphes des bois. Avant de couper un chêne il fallait procéder à un rituel concernant à laisser le temps aux esprits de prendre un autre arbre pour refuge. Si ce rituel n'était pas respecter les nymphes pouvaient mourir et entrainer de sévères représailles envers la personne responsable de ce sacrilège. Que penseraient les anciens celtes aujourd'hui ? ...C'est à vous de l'imaginer

About this artwork: Classification, Techniques & Styles

Watercolor

Watercolor is a painting in which gum arabic binds transparent pigments revealing the support of the painting. The gouache, of identical composition, is opaque. A watercolor is a water-based painting on paper. We rarely speak of a painting for a work painted in watercolor. Watercolor paintings are considered to be a unique way to creatively represent dreams, illusions, emotions and luminous feelings using water soluble pigments. However, painting with watercolors can be difficult. It's a difficult medium to master, in large part because it can be ruthless and unpredictable. Mistakes are difficult to correct and its fluid nature makes it difficult to control. Yet it is these very qualities that give the medium its undeniable charm.

Figurative

Figurative and colorful painting having taken the liberty of including all forms of art without border of cultural genre and geographic origin, without hierarchy of values between high and subculture.

Technic Painting

Painting is an art form of painting on a surface by aesthetically applying colored fluids. Painters represent a very personal expression on supports such as paper, rock, canvas, wood, bark, glass, concrete and many other substrates. Work of representation or invention, painting can be naturalistic and figurative, or abstract. It can have narrative, descriptive, symbolic, spiritual, or philosophical content.

Eric Lorcy

France

Self-taught artist and passionate about art history, figurative painter, I have long sought my way as a painter. Maeterlinck once said that art is a path that leads from what you see to what you don't see... This phrase stuck in my memory and since then I've been trying to share this writing using my artistic achievements.

I have a lot of respect for the artists of the past, with a preference for the English landscape painters of the 19th century, but also for all those artists whose works are intimately linked with their eras as well as their private lives.

I also have a deep admiration for Caspar David Friedrich.

I haven't taken any classes or attended an art school because I sincerely believe that feelings, emotions, anything that comes from the heart and contributes to creation cannot be taught. It is with a lot of perseverance, also mistakes that I have developed a very personal technique that allows me to bring into a landscape that is both timeless and sometimes fantastic, the man, the woman, the child who will know "see" beyond the simple vision of a painting.

Life is a dream and a painting is drawn poetry, so each of my creations is intended to be a doorway to a "Story" a "Message" a "Dream" a "Poetry".

May you dream while looking at my paintings as I dream myself while realizing them.

Eric LORCY