Artist Thierry Duval Watercolor Paris

The incredible paintings of Thierry Duval, the magic of Paris ✨🇫🇷 IplDiplomé des Arts Décoratifs in 1982, illustrator, then creative in a large Parisian advertising agency, Thierry Duval draws and paints since childhood. In 1990, a large Italian restaurant in Paris, the “Raffaélo”, commissioned him to produce pastel copies of paintings by the Renaissance painter Raffael, this may be where his taste for the great masters of the academic painting. Today his paintings speak to generations including many dreamy internet users who have never seen Paris. What is impressive about the artist is his technique and the result. "I only work in watercolor. I find this discipline capricious but so magical too! All my whites are the whites of the paper, nothing is brighter than the whites of the paper. With watercolors you have to cut out the light, work mentally in negative. I do this with a lot of washes, from light to dark, and always starting with the background. If the background is successful, a large part of the picture is successful. It is through the background that the viewer can project themselves into the image and travel there. »🌟