COLOUR OUTSIDE THE BOX - PEINDRE HORS DES LIMITES
English Version - *version française dessous* COLOUR OUTSIDE THE BOX I first expressed an interest in painting during the 1988 Christmas holidays. I was leafing through a book on the Courtaulds Impressionist collection. I had gone through this book before, but this time, when I saw paintings by Degas and Monet, something moved within me. It was a particularly stressful time in my life, and said perhaps I’d like to try and paint. So that was my Christmas gift! A small oil painting set with a cardboard canvas along with instructions on how to start painting. A few months later, I opened my gift and started to paint. I followed the detailed instructions in the booklet. To be frank, it was almost like painting by numbers! But I was hooked! I had no sense of time and got lost in the painting. In the following years, I copied (or try to copy LOL!) many of the most famous paintings the impressionists gave us. I experimented with pastels, acrylics and mixed