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Christopher Claude Beau (Born February 2, 1961) is a French draftsman, painter and sculptor. He is best known for his wide variety of styles embodied in his work, some of which can be seen on http://www.artsymphony.com. Early life and family Born in Lille, France, Beau is the son of Claude Valentin Desire Jules Arthur Beau and Claudie Edith Fabien. On her father’s side, Beau is of French and Belgium descent, and on her mother’s side he is French. As a child, Beau moved with his parents often, Besancon, 1966, Lyon, 1971, Paris, 1973, Crystal, MI., 1978, Nantes, France, 1979, Paris, 1980, Ile de Batz, 1981. He could spend countless hours watching over construction sites, visited many museums, saw lots of scientific documentaries, regularly saw science fiction movies with his parents and later explained that this has inspired his interest in building things, constructing things, which most of the time became alive in his drawings. His creations are rather “technical” in some weird way, and that is because he was influenced by his father, engineer by trade. Beau had trouble fitting into the school system as his mind was always elsewhere, he demonstrated uncanny artistic talent in his early years, and constantly got in trouble for drawing, doodling, sketching all the time, all over his books, notepads, desktops, everywhere...He’s been experimenting with many techniques especially in more recent years. Beau’s creativity manifests itself in numerous mediums, including drawing, painting, watercolor, sculpture, and architecture. Style Most of Beau’s drawings deal with futuristic architectural rendering scenes, including most of his pen and ink drawings made over a period of twenty years, a collection of watercolors dealing with science fiction, and some pastels about soft esoteric fuzzy looking science fiction sceneries. More recently, he has started experimenting with oil dealing mostly with abstract themes, using different techniques to render his ideas on the canvas. Although Beau is currently focusing mostly on abstracts, he has done quite a few illustrations over the years for various architects, as well as an illustration contest which got him an award and was published in the1990 L. Ron Hubbard Illustrator of the Future Contest, L.A., CA. Environmental work Since Beau is very committed to beauty, he started a non-profit organization in 2009 called WhiteEarth, which primary mission is to educate people about Global-warming and what each and every one of us can do now to help slow it down and protect the earth ice sheets and glaciers by focusing on the earth’s albedo aka reflectivity. External links http://www.artsymphony.com http://www.whiteearth.org

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