Portraits and Figures
Painting both alla prima and indirectly I use live models capturing the model with an idea derived of the pose. Painting directly from life invigorates an emotive quality for me as I get in my zone silently interacting with the person in front of me trying to capture at that precise moment of time what I see and feel. As I begin to make my first brush lines of gesture, it is my foremost desire to reach an authentic likeness. These paintings begin from the method I learned at Studio Incamminati in a gesture of straight lines searching for the shapes and proportions that are crucial for a likeness. The start predicts the outcome and is vital to the final painting. I am also interested in painting the light -I interchange using both North Light and Warm halogens sometimes adding colored gels to create the light I want for that painting.
Portraits and Figures
The energy you expend in keeping up with your goals at each sitting creates the dialogue of emotions that goes down in color strokes and details. A picture does speak a thousand words. I hope my art speaks to you.
When I don’t have a person to paint, I practice with self-portraits as well as still life’s that I call my personal Vanitas. I use objects taken from my childhood and surroundings that speak of family and roles I had in different stages of my life but which in reflection I work out historical family differences of perception.
Portraits and Figures
The energy you expend in keeping up with your goals at each sitting creates the dialogue of emotions that goes down in color strokes and details. A picture does speak a thousand words. I hope my art speaks to you.
When I don’t have a person to paint, I practice with self-portraits as well as still life’s that I call my personal Vanitas. I use objects taken from my childhood and surroundings that speak of family and roles I had in different stages of my life but which in reflection I work out historical family differences of perception.
Still-life and Vanitas
Still LifesStill LifesFrom the Book of Ecclesiastes all is meaningless and vanity... but not all so I choose still- life and work from my imagination to dialogue with the viewer visually. For personal reflection over my life I have also been working on a series of Vanita’s featuring “there is an Elephant in the room.” The word Vanitas means vanity and corresponds to the meaninglessness of earthly life and the transient nature of all earthly goods and pursuits as read from Ecclesiastes in the Bible. So these comment in a personal way my family dynamics and understandings both of the past and present, eastern culture and western thought that surrounded me growing up, thus “the elephant looking in a mirror”. Portraits and Figures
Biblical Surrealism
Biblical SurealismDerived from my imagination and using the Bible as a reference I paint inspirational art. I also have been using my imagination and photos to create new art with a purpose and dialogue while still using the Contemporary Classic realism.
