The 2015 Sketchbook contains mostly selected sketches from the model sessions conducted in my studio during the Drawing Club activities. These meetings permit me and other participants to practice realistic drawing skills in a relatively systematic way. The Drawing Club activities are open to...

  The 2014 Sketchbook contains selected sketches from the model sessions I am attending as often as I can. These sessions permit me to practice realistic drawing in a relatively systematic way. The practice of drawing is for me a kind of mental relaxation and a form of intellectual...

The Google Experience 2013 The second experience of working for Google was as pleasant as the first one. At the beginning of summer 2013, The Google representant contacted me in order to prepare a concept for the project of decorative mural that would reflect on the cultural connections...

The entire version of this thesis is available for downloading  on the Concordia University Research Repository (PDF). Introduction   Satire: the art which “afflicts the comfortable and comforts the afflicted.” H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) (Roukes, 1997, p. 85)   The principal...

I think that the best way to exercise one’s drawing skills is always the quick live sketch of anything available around. More sketches one does, better skills one has. I enjoy a lot to draw people in a move. It is not an easy task, but it develops a sense of perception of forms in space....

The project, I was pursuing, had an objective to confirm my theory that the traditional curriculum of teaching drawing skills can be adopted to digital tablets. In my opinion, the traditional methods used to instruct sketching can help students to acquire faster control over digital devices...

Art School Confidential: Satirical Reflection on the Studio Art Education Methods in America.   Art School Confidential was at first a four-page black-and-white alternative comic created by Daniel Clowes. It originally appeared in issue number seven of Clowes’s comic book Eightball...

  “The Google Experience.”  At the mid of June 2012, I received an invitation to participate in an open competition for a mural project for the new Google office, in Montreal. The proposal sparked my curiosity and I responded positively. Soon after I got invited to have an introductory tour...

I. Introduction. How does satirical art foster knowledge and visual literacy and why should it be taught? I would like to respond to this question by creating a series of satirical artworks through intrinsic content which I would propagate knowledge about “how to” and “why to,” by...

This collection contains drawings from the series of quickly made sketches of a various subjects. I always have with me a sketchbook, and when possible I sketch what I see around. I use to draw the sanguine and watercolors. On occasion, I use other mediums too. The sketching pads are the...

The Deleuzeian rhizome theory states that the knowledge about the world is acquired freely and independently through a process of multiple non-hierarchical structures of representation and interpretation, without any particular beginning or end point. It means that an idea should not have a...

The concept: Camera Bianca: Relational Me was born as a composite of various inspirations of which the leading force was the Marcel Duchamp’s final farewell artwork titled Étant donnés (1946-1966). Duchamp was working on this composition for twenty years in secret of his Greenwich Village...