Theo Chevêche

Budding illustrator, giving life to fairies, goblins, and other little folks, mainly with watercolor. My main inspirations are forgotten folktales and creatures, legends, fairy encyclopedias and the landscapes around me.

Welcome to this humble art gallery.

Now that the photo, the shells, and the siren are sewed together, it is now the poem's turn to be added to the the shrine. I made a sort of frame with fabric that I unevenly dyed in blue ink, gathered, and sewed with beads that look like pearls under the sea.

The poem is from Victor Hugo. It says:

Je voulais juste t’écrire que le ocean shrine est in-croy-able. Il m’a beaucoup inspiré, et maintenant je vais tenter à me coudre mon propre portable shrine, c’est exactement le sorte de truc up my alley. Je ne conceptualisais même pas que ça existe! Ça me surprend toujours, l’idée qu’on peut créer ce que l’on veut. J’espère que t’aies une superbe journée 🩵🐚🪼🐬

Merci beaucoup, c'est très gentil 😁

Je trouve que l'idée des pocket shrines est vraiment très intéressante, parce qu'on peut réunir dans un objet fait main plein de petites choses agréables. C'est comme un tout petit cabinet de curiosités qu'on peut peut mettre dans sa poche, et chacun est unique. Je suis contente que le mien t'inspire et si tu en fais un, j'ai hâte de le voir.

Next step of my ocean pocket shrine: the siren is now framed with small beads.

Follow the evolution:

Ocean pocket shrine

I discovered pocket shrines recently. It seems like a nice and soothing crafty thing to make. I just started my first one; it's an ode to ocean, with seaweed, shells, and a piece of polished glass, that I gathered at the sea. There's a photo of one of my favorite places at the center, a verse from a poem and a siren that I drew. Now I'm slowly sewing it all together, with small pearls and lace.

Follow the evolution:

Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | to be continued...

Honorable forest gnome | April 2025, watercolor | original content

Hobbling in the periwinkles, the honorable forest gnome mumbles in his beard: he's dwelling on old stories from the past.

I've been really active on my Instagram account for the whole month of October, picking drawing prompts from alternative lists to the official Inktober... here's a sneak peek.

With all of these I made up a great series of drawing that will enrich my forest, with new characters and creatures, as well as a different art style than what I usually do.

Lighthouses | August 2024, watercolor | original content

The Britannic coast in France is known to be a dangerous place to navigate. Reefs and rocks, as well as fog, caused many shipwrecks in this area. Therefore there was a strong effort to secure it from the end of the 18th century to the 1900's. The westernmost tip of Brittany, called Finistère, hosts nowadays the highest number of lighthouses in all France.

L'apparition | August 2024, watercolor | original content

La Fée (The Fairy) | June 2022, watercolor | original content

Already posted this one a while ago but without context.

Despite the fact that I used a very cheap paper, this is still one of my favorite works. The gentleness, colors, overall atmosphere, and style, makes it the drawing that initiated my current art style.

The Old Seaman | July 2024, watercolor | original content

Coat of seaweed and seagull on the head, the old seaman stays still, watching the ocean from the end of the world. He's seen much, there; joy of the sailors coming home, shipwrecks in the storm. As the sea mist clouds over, he stays. He's never left.

He loved the sea so much that he became one with her. Oh, she's not always been good to him. She's a capricious lady. But the old seaman never tried to leave her, nor her tempestuous winds, her crushing storms, her mischievous waves tossing about his boat.

July 2024

Fruity turtle, carrying berries and birds. Where she going?

Somewhere in the woods, offering her goods,

To foodie gremlins and chubby goblins.