Star making

Watercolor © 1978

A new pendant

I made this pendant the same day that I received that wonderful labradorite cabochon.
I find it's quite elegant.

Winter in Montreal

This is an old photo, from before the digital days, that I always liked a lot.
It's on the Plateau Mont-Royal.

With the help of references...

Here I am, dressed in a rental costume, to sevre as a model for this Thomas Jefferson illustration.

Food for thought

-"Increasingly, by choice or by accident, this is the role our nation has taken -- the role of those who make peaceful revolution impossible by refusing to give up the privileges and the pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investment.

"I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing--oriented" society to a "person--oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered."
(Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Jack in the Box

Prismacolor pencils on Canson paper © 1977

Leopold & Rudolf Blaschka

My new site is now online!

I'm so happy! It's been so much work!
There is still much to do, but the illustration part of the site is up and running! Hallelujah!

In Memoriam Howard Zinn

Happy new Year!

An authentic masterpiece!

This CD, sung totally in innu, by Chloe Sainte-Marie, a singer from Quebec, is truly a masterpiece!
The first song, Mamitunenitamun, that you can hear here, is particularly intense and you don't need to understand what is being sung in order to fall for it.
The whole album is great, the words and music are by Philippe McKenzie who deserves much admiration.
Chloé's voice is that of an angel...


Chloe Sainte-Marie. Photo by Pierre Dury

Sold as soon as posted...

This set has only been online for a day before it was sold! :-)

New jewelry

Here are a few of the pieces that I made lately. They are all available at my Etsy shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/maximeboldeau




Citrine hearts and pink tourmaline bracelet and earrings set:


Onyx drops and african striped glass bracelet and earrings set:


Soft green chrysoprase necklace and earrings set:


Pearls and sterling necklace and earrings set:


Knotted black spinel and sterling necklace:


Labradorite knotted necklace:


Red coral on vintage chain bracelet:

My first sterling pendant

This is my very first handmade pendant. It's somewhat lopsided, but since it's rather small, it doesn't show too much.
It's made of recycled mexican sterling from old broken pieces, and sterling wire scraps from my beading projects.
I'm quite proud of it because I learned all I needed to achieve it from books.
Oh how I love books! And how important they have always been for me!

Just listed necklaces

Necklace with jasper landscape pendant (SOLD)


Long half and half black onyx and agate necklace


Indian faerie two strand apatite and hessonite garnet necklace. (SOLD)

Beautiful music, and film.

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress



This is one album that I don't think I'll ever tire of. I've been listening to it in loop for a few months now, and it just keeps on transporting me...
It is a fusion of Mozart and chinese music at it's best. I think it is sublime!

Tracks #1 (La montagne Phénix), #10 (Le soupir du bois), and #26 (La grotte des livres) are good examples of the atmosphere created by this music.
You can hear excerpts of it here.

By the way the film is very good also.

Mean beauty, last post.

These are the last photos of this (giant?) thistle. I intend to rip it out as soon as the flowers have all withered. The ruler is 72 inches long.

A day at Jenness Beach, NH

This is a quickly realized panoramic photomerge relating a cloudless day at Jennes Beach, New Hampshire...

Today at "Les Belles d'un Jour"

I took a few minutes at lunch to visit Michel, my neighbour, and catch a few shots of the blooming daylilies. It must be the peak of the season around here...





Some welcome shade...


A sea of flowers...

Beautiful peach roses

Shot at our neighbour's place...