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Hello

01 Friday Jan 2021

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Hello 2021!

How nice to finally meet you.

It’s been such an agony to wait for you to arrive.

How delightful to make your acquaintance.

We all expect you to behave, spread joy, have respect for the elderly, give hand and don’t make a nuisance of yourself. Your predecessor didn’t score high in our hearts.

Better be on the lookout to be a friend rather than a foe.

Best foot forward, and work smart for the best, for hope does not get one into action, really.

Hop along!

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Goodbye

31 Thursday Dec 2020

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Goodbye 2020

I shall not miss you. 2021 cannot b as tough as you’ve been, my father cannot die again of cancer, and all the rest is only repetition, but I’m ok with that.

Take these flowers to lay them in your bed as you rest forverver in our memory, and let go of us.

Sincerely,

PS no need to produce offsprings in your spitting image.

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Daily dose…

14 Monday Dec 2020

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… of smartphone addiction.

Continuing the theme of curious smartphone tech addiction.

Spell. Daily dose. Copyright FVitel 2020

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Spell – Daily Dose

01 Tuesday Dec 2020

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inkdrawing

Still exploring the theme of Spell applied to the smartphone addiction, I present you with the daily dose of it.

Daily dose- Spell – FV2020

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Mister C. says Hello, world

30 Monday Nov 2020

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Coronavirus, drawing

Because this is how is feels somethimes, with all thoses lockdowns and restrictions, news, counternews, data, additional data, claims, false claims, errors and trials and the whole shebang.

If we are being manipulated, I’d say that’s by Mister Corona itself, with its cleverness and the chaos, engineered or not, that follows along.

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Nosferatu

17 Tuesday Nov 2020

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The other day, I took ink and paper and Count Orlok emerged from the depths of the page.

Nosferatu. Copyright FV 2020

I remember watching Nosferatu, a symphony of horror (by F.W  Murnau, 1922) as a cinephile teenager, when I was 16 or 17. Like most of the German expressionist movies, it is a masterpiece, an influential sublime piece of the 7th art. Maybe it was a little less phantasmagoric or dreamlike than The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari or The Golem, yet it has an enduring appeal, made of horror, accuracy and raw aesthetic due to the absence of elaborate decor or superfluous artifice. These gloomy times we go through could certainly fit in the allegory of the disease spreading everywhere embedded in this film.

Incidentally, Count Orlok, the main character stemming directly from Bram Stocker’s Dracula, was played by the actor Max Schreck, whose surname in German means “Terror”. How apt. He is indeed terrifying.

Klaus Kinski would later, in Werner Herzog’s movie Nosferatu the Vampyre, revive the character, with an undeniable success.

The silent B&W movie of 1922 nonetheless, with the iconic stills taken from as equally iconic scenes, remains a powerful horror one to this day. And this is the image I keep from the movie, along with the final one, where Orlok turns into smoke, struck by the fatal sunlight.

Have you seen it?

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A picture

13 Friday Nov 2020

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Of a textile creation on my Insta feed inspired me. After I asked, the creator said it was ok for me to draw and paint it in my own style and colours.

And so I did.

Turns out, it was the first time someone made a watercolour of one of her creations, she was happy went I sent the pic of my creation. Cheers.

And here is the finished drawing.

Libre Inspiration . Copyright FV 2020

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Remembrance day

11 Wednesday Nov 2020

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Gassed and shot. Verdun 1917. FV 2020

We remember them. I remember my grand-father, gassed, shot, left for dead, amputated. He endured 4 years of war, Verdun and the Chemin des Dames.

He could never forget, he had nightmares, he relived the horrors of the trenches every night until he died, from complications in his once gassed lungs.

I never got to meet him, neither did my siblings or my cousins. He is celebrated and remembered.

Poppies and corn flowers cover the blood-soaked trenches in the Spring.

In peace.

F

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Bogie and Lauren got a mask…

10 Tuesday Nov 2020

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Because, why not?

As a fan of films noirs, the tandem Bogie-Bacall is a favourite of mine. And those times call for creativity. So I took my ink and this emerged from my imagination.

“Wear your mask, sweetie”. Copyright FV 2020

Stay safe, folks.

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A young Brian May sketch

09 Monday Nov 2020

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Brian Blue – FV 2020

This is what happens when I watch Bohemian Rhapsody for the 7th time, I end up drawing stuff in my sketch book…

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Happy Helloween…

31 Saturday Oct 2020

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Halloween, Helloween, inkdrawing

… says Mr Coronavirus…

Because this is how it has felt so far : hellish.

Happy Hell-oween everyone, says Mr Coronavirus copyright F.Vitel 2020

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Shakespeare’s new play

05 Tuesday May 2020

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inkdrawing

Because, why not?
It’s a tragedy, it’s about power and losing one’s mind over an inextricable situation and hardship. while questioning the structure and values of the world one lives in. It circles around philosophical and ethical issues, exposing the brutality of drastic actions and their consequential sufferings. It’s about the difficulty of being human.

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Spell – once more

04 Monday May 2020

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inkdrawing, spell

Because smartphones are ruling the world, everywhere…

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Spell – once more

30 Thursday Apr 2020

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Because our world can be a little weird… even Buddhist monks can get caught by the spell of the portable phone….

Stay safe and strong, this too shall pass..

F

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Loveletter II

03 Monday Feb 2020

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inkdrawing

Love Letter from my darling Valentine – copyright Florence Vitel 2020

Another take on the art of writing.

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