Sylvie Roussel Méric

Painter

Affiliated at the House of the artists

The human being, source of inspirations:

Sylvie Roussel Méric practise drawing and painting since 25 years. The subject of her work, change through her travel. Her theme of predilection being the human figure, subject which always comes back through various cultural approaches:
- Africa and the Middle Orient,
- Flamenco and Bullfighting,
- At present, she prepares a notebook, with watercolour and drawings on her trip in New-Caledonia.

Her itinerary:

Self-taught, she’s training of the drawing. Next she’s followed during five years, a teaching of the Flemish Masters of the 15th century technical. Then she carried out a copy to the:

And currently, she works to the copy to the right shutter of:

With the passing of years, her curiosity and her enjoyment to have many experiences with all form of art, brings her to approach and acquired a great number of techniques of art : charcoal, black lead, pastels dry and oil pastels, paint to inks of colours and ink drawing, paint on oil, watercolour, paint on acrylic.

To teach at her turn:

Sylvie Roussel Méric teaches in her turn the various disciplines artistic which it acquired according to the wish of every one. Hers courses are dispensed in her studio to adults and children. Her pedagogy of teaching is based on the stimulation and the encouragement to persevere of the students whatever their aspirations and their aptitudes. It’s anyway easier because they can choice what they want to learn.

This month, in Apart...How realise the sketch of your oil painting.

I will explain to you how to draw a sketch
on your canvas without making
undesirable traces.
The pencil of graphite lead
common called grey pencil,
is difficult to rub out on
the canvas, it makes black
traces who cross over layers
of painting, specially on light shade.
Even, charcoal tend to
make on the canvas
a grey hazy dirt, who mix with colours
and dull them. To remedy this
drawback, I recommend you
to use a dry pastel
with neutral colour( for exemple,
natural Siena) in fact,
dry pastel rub on totally
wihtout making traces, and
it's integrate perfectly on the layer
of paint without making dirty.
A second method consist to
drawing directly with a
thin brush, with oil paint
slightly dilute, on a neutral colour,
the most near possible of the
subject painted. To rub out,
you take a cloth soak in
turpentine petrol. It just
had to see that the choth
isn't soak too much to avoid
macking traces and use a very
clean cloth and petrol.
This two methods give
excellent results, and will
permit you to approaching
in good conditions, the first
step of the realisation of
your work of art.