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Portrait of Claire, blood drawing

Clara, designer 🇫🇷

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Clara's Happy Life

Born in Paris, Clara often saw her parents drawing when she was a child. Her mother liked to illustrate their daily lives with coloured pencils and her father regularly sketched his colleagues and teachers.Her mother liked to illustrate their daily lives with coloured pencils and her father regularly sketched his work colleagues and teachers.

Clara spent a year in Venice for her diploma from the Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs de Paris, where she was able to deepen her knowledge of the art of drawing and to work on representing human emotions. After working as a graphic designer and D.A. in digital and print publishing, the publication as a writer of a book on the Apple in Art and some exhibitions led him to devote himself to drawing and painting. More specifically portraiture, urban sketching and digital painting. She is currently working in Paris, a city that continues to enchant her daily.

Clara's Happy STYLE

His style is rather realistic and precise. For the portrait, she uses a watercolour blood coloured pencil. The precision of the lead allows her to draw with nuance, and the blur to work in superimposed layers so that the result is luminous.

Why we LOVE Clara

Clara creates portraits that are strikingly realistic. We love the precision of her line, which nevertheless leaves room for the expression of emotions on her faces.

We like the classicism of the sanguine, which reminds us (to some extent) of Leonardo da Vinci's drawings from the years 1470-1480. This process was extremely successful during the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, both in Italy and in France and in the countries of the North, with no doubt a particular favour in France in the 18th century, at the time of Watteau and Boucher.

The Happy Funky PORTRAIT of Clara

♥ Do you remember your first aesthetic shock?
It was nature that was the source of my first aesthetic shock, I remember precisely a flower I met during a school outing at the age of 6. Then, around the age of 10, it was the work of Doisneau that made me want to artistically capture the everyday.

♥ The artist you would like to meet? What would you say to him?
There are many contemporary artists I would like to meet, Soulage for example and his work on light, Bleck le Rat for what he brought to Street Art, David Hockney for his digital virtuosity, Pierrick Sorin for his humour, Craig Hannah and his incredible knowledge of morphology and colour, I would like to thank him for inspiring me for my portraits.

♥ What is your favourite colour? What does it inspire you?
Maybe it's yellow because it's a bold, fragile, subtle and paradoxical colour.

Commissioned a custom portrait of a little boy with blood in his veins.
Personalized blood pencil portrait

♥ Which museum gives you the greatest emotion? Why?
Parisian museums are a daily source of almost life-giving creative energy for me and I have a familiar connection with each one, but the one I feel most strongly about is the Museum of Modern Art in New York, because it felt like each piece was tailor-made for each of its works.

♥ What piece of art would you buy without hesitation if you had an unlimited budget?
Love at first sight.

♥ In which city do you feel happiest? Why do you think so? Share your 3 favourite addresses.
Apart from Paris, the last cities where I felt happiest are Berlin, for example the Klunkerkranich for the sound and the atmosphere, walking along the Sprée river in Autumn and discovering the Street Art there thanks to LaetiBerlin. Otherwise, I love Arezzo and the work of Pierro della Francesca in the Bacci chapel in Italy.

Commissioned a custom portrait of a little girl with blood in her veins.

♥ What book keeps you up all night?
Edward T. Hall's The Hidden Dimension.

♥ What are your biggest sources of inspiration?
Art that makes life more beautiful than Art.

♥ What's the funkiest thing you've done in your life?
This may sound corny but the birth of my baby girl two months ago.

♥ What is your definition of happiness?
Wonder, tenderness, infinity.

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