Cet été j'ai eu la chance d' animer un atelier dans un de mes régions préférées de la France, le Provence. Le petit village nommé Lurs était un rêve de paix en pleine nature provençale et, pour cela, très inspirant. 

Et oui, tous ces livres accordeon sont le travail de mes excellents étudiants. J'espère qu'ils ont autant appris de moi que moi j'ai  appris  d'eux! Chaque jour était un délice même avec la chaleur intense. Un très grand merci à cette compagnie internationale:  Jean-Luc, Suzanne, Françoise, Sylvie, Francisco, Aurélie, Philippe, Francesca et Sylvie, et une sincère reconnaissance à Philippe et Cristine pour la parfaite organisation du stage! 

From 16th till 20th of September I have been instructing a workshop in Seoul.  The students all made their own accordeon book and they did a wonderful job! As always I have been inspired by students' works and learned a lot from working with them.  
Thank you so much Hee Yong and Sujie for your wonderful coordination!  
And thank you students Lee Soo Hyun, Park Joo Min, Kim Min Jeong, Lee Su Jung, Yoo Ji An, Min Byeong Hwa, Son You Hak, Kim Miok, Han Hee, Jun Mi Jeong, Na Seung Hee, Jo Sungyoung, Hewon Juhng, Yoo Do Yeon, Kim Eun Jung, Lee Choon Ki, Park Kyung Hwa, Chung Kyung Ae, Park Hee Kyung and Moon Ye Jin!

After the workshop there was plenty of time to explore an ultramodern town combined with old temples and palaces and masses of colorful people. We visited the nearby neighborhood of Insadong with its small streets full of modern galeries, wooden teahouses, craft shops, boutiques and restaurants

We also went to the mountains that surround Seoul and climbed a peak of 375 m in the company of Joon, Cecilia and her husband. Thank you for taking us there. We were exhausted, not being used to mountainous landscapes, but so grateful for that experience. 

I've been very fortunate to host a workshop in Torino, Italy. A city that I didn't visit yet and I was pleasantly surprised by its beauty and its old history! Since I came back, I started a new concertina book about all the fantastic things I saw. Below, you can see a small map of the city center where I taught and where I stayed in a splendid palazzo. And how much I enjoyed drawing this map as precise as possible! I'm pretty sure that I'm going to draw other maps in the future.

A few weeks ago I was blessed with a group of enthusiastic students for a colored pencil workshop. A butterfly is, of course, a rewarding topic for study and spring is the perfect time of the year to do this.  It's been two most enjoyable days where everyone learned about the different types of pencils, best papers to work on and best techniques to draw a photo-realistic butterfly. Using colored pencils is much more than just coloring, it's building up layer by layer and I'm sure that every student in the class can agree with me that working with colored pencils helps to create a feeling of calmness and Zen!
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