Bernard Dumaine, born in France in 1953. I studied in Angoulême Fine Arts school, I have been upgraded from the Angers Fine Arts school in 1977 (sculpture - with a distinction for drawing). Since this date, I did many drawing and painting local exhibitions (hyperrealism or surrealism). When I first began to work using a computer, these collages were made with pictures collected by chance over the Web and then rebuilt in Photoshop. Nevertheless, some works were entirely created, such as the "Fragments" set. I have progressively abandonned this way of working, and I actually use scanned photographs taken from magazines or freeware images from commercial CDs. Finally, I use these e-mages as sketches and I paint some of them with oil on canvas. Since the beginning of the year 2001, I produce less images than I did before, for I spend much more time to realize them. I use now a graphic tablet which permits me to work and almost to draw with a larger accuracy.

My work is about graphical experiments; I have been drawing for years, mostly "organic" shapes without any preliminary plan. Actually, I create pictures using Photoshop and I sometime use them as sketches to paint

Bernard Dumaine Digital and traditional artwork
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submission date: May 02, 2003