THE USED TECHNIQUES (continued)

For all of these techniques, I never have taken courses or
obtained help from professionals or amateurs.

Sculpture

I have begun this technique in January 1999 without knowledge. I bought a femur at my butcher and armed with a metal saw, I undertook to cut this piece of bone to carve a small frame (see photo at the left). Afterwards, I have sculpted wood like oak, lime and beech. In may 2001, I began to carve box wood for the creation of my first carved pandore doll : see the gothic pandore doll n° 1. This wood is very pleasant to work because is hard, dense and has got a very fine grain.
In november 2002, I have begun to carve vegetal ivory with a first creation, the mignardise pandore renaissance. Since May 2004, I carved synthetic ivory because I can have some bits of this material larger : it's easier, for the bust or legs for instance, like you can see with one of my last creations "The mignardise Louis XV" bought by Le Musée International de la Miniature à Lyon.

Marquetry

I have begun marquetry in April 2000 thanks to a book written by Xavier Dyèvre, restorer of furnitures at Versailles. Now, I make some creations with the technique of Boulle inlaid work which interest me particularly. In the future,  I'll hope to work with materials like brass, bone, synthetic tortoise scale...

Also see into this site about marquetry :

The pedestal in marquetry of my creations :
"Flore"
Pandore Louis XIV
The frame of :
The flight of flowers
Young woman and the unicorn
and
History of inlaid work
Technique of inlaid work
Links and addresses of marquetry
Books for sale about marquetry

Embroidering

Again no basic knowledge, no book too. I had the chance to see some marvellous old piece of embroidering in relief. I absolutely wanted to try as far back as this year 2000 : see my embroidered bunch of flowers. This creation needed 250 hours of work ; each flowers are in relief. However, I discovered some books about specific embroideries and I wish to learn them by this mean in order to study this subject more seriously.

Also see into this site about embroidery :

Embroidery in miniature for the mignardise Louis XV
Books for sale about embroidery