Author : olivier.morellet

First tests on Ipad

5 December 2017 in drawings

Before, when we went on a trip, I carried my pencils and my block of drawing paper to make compositions that I scanned and colorized back home before animating them in the form of a video.

For our trip to Burma and Indonesia, I took my IPad Pro to familiarize myself with the techniques of drawing or digital painting on a tablet. Here is the result of these first tests that have not resulted in a video, at least for now.

Firstly, three compositions made of memory after the spectacle of a sunset on the Indian Ocean in tropical storm weather: a classic figurative version, then a version with more abstract forms and, finally, a very refined version.

Then other compositions using varied graphic and pictorial techniques.

Wave or corpuscle?

6 October 2017 in videos

Triangular surfaces, sticks, ribbons, cloudy backgrounds: sole basic elements for a three-movement composition.

On the progressively changing funds, the triangles quickly pass as punctual elements; ribbons aggregate in flat surfaces or slowly undulate; sticks sometimes appear isolated or often assemble together to form moving waves.

First movement: Agitato

Second movement: Largo

Third movement: Andante con moto

Wave or corpuscle?

5 October 2017 in drawings

An example of the triangles, sticks and ribbons appearing under different sizes and colors in the video.

Back to black and white

29 Aug 2017 in videos

A return to black and white, with a few shades of gray (fifty?) ... and the fleeting passage of the blue and fuchsia pink.

Back to black and white

29 Aug 2017 in drawings

The drawing was made directly in digital for its most part, with some borrowings to old compositions drawn on paper in pencil or ink from China.

Paper compositions

1 August 2017 in drawings

A computer breakdown and a week of repair, followed by fifteen days of travel: the opportunity to return to the beginnings of the videos, making on paper compositions combining pencil and ink from China. Less transparency and depth than in digital compositions, but more material in traits and flat.

Digital compositions

12 July 2017 in drawings

Here is a series of graphic compositions, directly sketched by digital means (with the exception of a pencil-drawn background on paper for the first three).

Meteors

24 May 2017 in videos

Meteor: phenomenon, perceptible in the atmosphere or on the surface of the globe, which may consist of an aqueous, gaseous, electric or optical manifestation.

Meteors

24 May 2017 in drawings

first Meteor

second Meteor

third Meteor

fourth Meteor

fifth Meteor

sixth Meteor

seventh Meteor

eighth Meteor

sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth meteors simultaneously

No green, or almost

21 April 2017 in videos

Here we again take the 3D-yellow ribbon that goes down and rotates at the end of the sequence "pencil, glass, light". It splits into two objects: the 3D- ribbon itself, which is now coloured in purple, and its projection on a plane, adorned with the yellow and red edges of the frame taken into account by the 3D-software to draw the ribbon.

The other motifs of the video are based on two pencil drawings and on a set of flat surfaces and lines, drawn and animated in 3D.

The name given to the video can be understood by observing that all the colors come back several times during the sequence, except the green which appears only punctually for one of the 3D-traits ... even though it is irather turquoise.