Sylvain Marc and Verossignol did it (and not only on the sofa...)

Sylvain Marc and his girlfriend Verossignol brought their tremendous part in the Sketchtravel's sketchbook. For editorial secret reasons, I can't show the astonishing result of their Art but I can tell you it's a-ma-zing, full of creativity, with a reel sense of sharing and mixing their styles with humor and elegance.
Sylvain is still at Cartoonetwork London, working on his own project while Verossignol keeps working on several children books and will be part of Nucleus Gallery August exhibition. If you are in LA this summer, don't miss her masterpieces.
We are very proud to get Sylvain and Vero on board and I can tell you their pages are absolutely terrific.

So, this part of the adventure in Europe is now finished. Next station : New-York city for a 2nd round in the hands of the greatest character designer ever : Peter de Sève. Then Artist Greg Couch (Children book artist, member of Out of Picture, Bluesky fame) and more to come ! Stay tuned ! Keep reading this blog during summer and subscribe to our Facebook club and register to our mailing-list to know more ! (more infos on www.sketchtravel.com)

A special big thank to Diane and JJ Launier from Arludik Gallery. Indeed, their are the Sketchtravel Ambassadors bringing the Sketchtravel's case in the USA.

Long life to the King

A few weeks ago, a friend of mine told me : "it would be great that MJ buys the original copy of Sketchtravel at the final auction at bid"(Obviously, He was kidding, this operation isn't that famous...).

That reminds me we invited Mark Ryden to be part of Sketchtravel's sketchbook at the beginning of the trip. Unfortunately he didn't answer to our invitation. In case (we never know) Mark Ryden or some friend of him would read this post, He is still very welcome :-)

I have discovered Mark Ryden thanks to Michaël Jackson in 1992 because Mark Ryden created this tremendous cover of the incontrovertible "Dangerous".
I was so impressed by that awesome illustration I have even taken some airbrush lessons at this time (I admit it was not a very good idea...) while Ryden uses traditional brushes.

Some others nice Sketchtravel's fan told me recently it was strange Sketchtravel's artists never match with current events (like illustrating news happening when they have the sketchbook in their hands). May be it's a little bit more entertaining if they offer some imaginated vision instead of rude reality (depending of the Artist, as you can see when you discover previews) May be Sylvain Marc and Veronique Joffre (who have currently the sketchbook ) will put a wink or an hommage in their contributions.

Stay tuned and you will know ;-)

Sketchtravel's new website

This quick post to inform you that a brand new version is now online ! All the important informations are now on one and unique page : the homepage.
A special link to Facebook page has been added if you want to join this group.

Two Youtube playlist links are now available :
- trailers for the Owls Production's documentary, below the video clip in the center.
- one other on the You tube icon linking to all the videos about Sketchtravel you can find on You tube

Veronique Joffre and Sylvain Marc have the Sketchbook !

Sylvain Marc and Véronique Joffre came at home on friday to get the Sketchbook. Sylvain Marc already had the sketchbook in hands a few months ago in London when he visited Mr Quentin Blake
to get the Sketchbook back. Unfortunately he didn't have enough time at this moment to bring his contribution and neither Veronique because we had to bring the sketchbook to Mr John Howe in Switzerland (schedule).
But here we are ! it's their turn now for the last round in Europe and especially in UK where both of them are currently living in the swinging London. While Veronique is a full time freelace illustrator, Sylvain works at Cartoon Network
and is freelance too during his free time (the truth is he can't stop creating and doesn't have any free time anyway).
Veronique iss currently preparing some originals pieces for her exhibition at Gallery Nucleus and Sylvain his own project at Cartoon Network.
I have no doubt both of them are going to create something super special in the Sketchtravel's Sketchbook and I can't wait to see what they are going to invent.

Despite our communication on the subject, we keep receiving some propositions from many artists around. It is a great honor to know many artists would love to be in the sketchbook but unfortunately, the list is closed.
Indeed, we don't have places anymore and we don't plan to launch a second book before this first one is finished. Thank you very much !

The sketchbook will be back in the USA next July. It will visit Peter de Sève, Greg Couch, Natalie Ascencios, Tomer Hanuka and more !

Juanjo GUARNIDO did it !

I had a nice trip in the parisian suburb this morning to visit the famous Juanjo Guarnido in his astonishing studio where we shared an early coffee. Indeed, Juanjo told me yesterday he finished his contribution in the holy sketchbook.We usually organize
a meeting with the next artist but Sylvain Marc wasn't available yet. So I had to go ;-) but believe me, it was a great pleasure. Discovering the Juanjo's part was a big shock (Viva Espana). J.Guarnido put the level very high and created a super beautiful watercolour. He said he had a lot of fun by doing his painting and you believe him when you see the result. His piece is sexy, full of humor and winks and I have no doubt you will love it when you will discover the book in bookstores as soon as this adventure ends. As I mentioned in a previous post, I can't unfortunately show contributions anymore for editorial reasons (but only the extract above ;-). Don't worry, the trip goes on ! Meetings too and Art shines !
I can't thank Mr Guarnido enough for being so involved in this charity project and unique editorial challenge. I also thank Pierre Alary
a lot. Pierre was the connection with Juanjo Guarnido and without him, having Guarnido in the sketchbook would have been impossible. Pierre also introduced me to Enrique Fernandez a few years ago. We owe you a lot Pierre.
J.Guarnido showed me the brand new page of upcoming Blacksad new adventure he is currently working on. The work I saw is truely impressive and charming. Juanjo showed me some pieces of his personal museum and I discovered the collector behind the artist. For security reasons I can't tell you what kind of masterpieces I have seen but you can visit www.ha.com to get an idea ;-) It was a fabulous morning, a very inspiring one. Mr Juanjo Guarnido, muchas gracias !
Next Artist are Sylvain Marc and Veronique Joffre.

United in a sketchbook

It's an appropriate day to remind how many nations are represented in this international artistic sharing. We wish we could be more but that's not so easy to run.

EXPO Ice Age 3, Arludik, Paris.