About

Since he finished school in 2013, he has people sitting at his atelier every week, as different as they are. He is interested as much in what they say as how they look like.

He never works from pictures, and paint his models on either cardboard with gouaches, or oil on canvas. Gouaches allows him to paint someone in an afternoon because it dries fast, usually a time spent with the model listening to vinyls and drinking tea.

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YOUR PORTRAIT BY LOUIS THOMAS

Europe, India, Nepal, Japan and now in the United States, Louis Thomas started to travel late 2019 to look for inspiration and paint around …