Very happy new year for 2010 everyone!!!!!

I hope you had a great time on New Year's Eve (I certainly did!), and I wish you all the best for 2010: happiness, health, loooove, and all kinds of successes!

I didn't really make resolutions this year (because obviously I never keep them)... This is the time of the year when you look back over your shoulder on the past year and see how it went... For me 2009 has been a very odd year, with high heights and deep downs : it's been the year of my first gallery shows and the year of my biggest art block ever, the year when I stopped my PhD and started it all over again in a different place, the year when I really wondered what the hell I was doing with my life and yet felt sure it was the right way to go. Well, let's keep the good parts and forget the bad ones!

MERRY CHRISTMAS everyone! Or whatever you may be celebrating during the holidays!
I wish you a very good time, hopefully with your family and friends!

Thank you very very much for your continued support, which is the best gift you could have given me!

Also, you still have until tomorrow to enter the Christmas giveaway on my blog...! After that it will be too late!

I'm afraid I haven't had a lot of time for dA (or the whole internet, actually) lately, but I'll try to make good use of my holiday time to catch up everything I've missed!

It's Christmas time, and I'm spoiling you with a limited edition print of Paper Birds to win on my blog!

Only the comments on my blog will be taken into account!
The winner will be drawn from the hat on Christmas day.
Have fun !





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Some of you are aware of the recent drama that somebody made by saying I accused her of art theft. If you are *not* aware of this affair, then please don't mind this post. No name calling, please, I honestly think this affair generated way too much drama already.
I wouldn't even mention it in here if this person hadn't distorted my words, deleted my comment in her journal where I explained my point of view and then blocked me from her page (so yeah, it's not like I have other places to write in).


I do not think this person stole the picture in question. I don't think this is a case of "art theft", and I certainly never said that I "considered that she had ripped off my entire concept, realisation and style", that's just beyond ridiculous.
I repeatedly told her that I didn't mind. I never asked her to delete a single work from her gallery, let alone close her account - actually I told her I didn't mind if she kept the work in question in her gallery.
I have no idea how I could have more distinctly worded this idea.

The interesting thing in this whole affair is that, unlike what she claimed on several occasions, nobody ever said that the picture similar to hers is [link] . The problem, as she purposefully "forgot" to mention, was with an old sketch published on my blog only : [link] . Whether or not her character was referenced from this picture is, I believe, a sterile debate since she deleted her work. Either way, if it was, I personnally think it's just that : referenced for the body and some details. Certainly not copied, stolen, or anything reprehensible. And if it was referenced, I wouldn't mind : as I've said here many times, I don't mind people referencing my work. So where is there any place for drama in here?

This whole situation is completely surreal from my point of view. How exactly I can be looking like a paranoid psycho for screaming at the top of my voice that I don't consider her picture to be a rip-off is beyond my understanding. Talk about reversing situations, much.
I can only guess that it was much easier to make herself look like the prosecuted victim of the meanie popular deviant, than to admit having lied about which works were being compared and letting people judge for themselves with the actual pictures.

Hopefully we're done with all that drama now.

Hello everyone!

Argh, I gave in to peer pressure and I created a Facebook account!
So here are two things:

* firstly, my official page, where you can proclaim to the world what a huge fan of my work you are (ahah)

* secondly, my personal profile if you want to add me to your friends. No offense to anyone, but I'm trying not to do the same mistake as on Myspace, where I added everybody who asked and where it soon became impossible for me to manage the page... so I'm only accepting invitations from people I know at least vaguely. If you want to add me to your contacts but your name probably won't ring a bell, send a little message along with your invitation to tell me who you are and why you're adding me!

In other news, I'm been terribly busy with non-artistic stuff lately and my DA message center is a mess... Sorry about that, I will try to clear it up as soon as possible and answer all of your messages!