À propos

About Me and my Art.

I am Pierre Emmanuel, French European, creator of DrawInside.

In 2008, i quit my day job in engineering and moved to Dublin. My ambition was to be an artist.

The point was i don't have a proper style, neither degree in Art, just passionate and self taught.
So i started with what i was good at :
plein-air painting in the impressionist way of working.
Climate conditions were challenging and i needed to clamp my easel to the ground due to gusty winds.

Then I did acrylic painting in Dublin, it had time to dry before two showers but the pots were heavy and hauling 1 square meters frames was not easy.

So i did watercolors but the irish weather was too wet, and the only things i did were blured views of Dublin.

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I wanted to get less material to haul and work fast in public Area, but with a great respect to nature, so...
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So i get rid of everything and took a white Organic chalk and start to draw a line, directly on the pavement, and this is how it started...

I did one line drawing, spreading....
I start to give a general shape to my intricate doodles
The general shapes became recognisable faces
And the doodles inside became stories about who i was drawing. This was the concept but i needeed an aproval, not the aproval of the gallery or connoisseurs.

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I needed the audience approval and challenge myself wis this simple question : am i ready to work as an Artist ?

So i took my ink and white canvas instead of a chalk and cycled out of the studio with my cardboard box to put money in and start to draw in a busy street of Dublin.

Knees on the ground, drawing my line, i was working and waiting for a feedback.
....and it came, and i knew at this time that there was something in my art that could give emotions !

My first Inside drawing was done in 2010, and since this time i'm improving the technic, and put something in my pictures i really believe in.

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I moved to Barcelona in 2010 and keep going with my drawings and started to sell on-line and improve the technic.

I've been busy near the MNAC drawing local celebrities and thoses who were coming in BCN for a Concert...

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In 2015, I and my family moved back to Homeland in France were i continue to work as an Artist and run my printing Workshop and continue to draw originals with different themes like the dogs and cities....

Pierre-Emmanuel
January 2016