Sara leaves

This is a new draw I made with one of my friends for another friend who will leave for an year of Erasmus in Leeds. I tried for the first time to draw on a photographic paper using indian ink and écoline; the effect that we achieve was really impressive and I long to do it again.

Indian ink and écoline on photographic paper.

My Personal Website

During this month I've been making my own personal website, which is meant to be my business card. 

It contains my main works, a short biography and some of my expositions and commissions. 

If you're interested on knowing more about me and my works you may take a look at my shout out..:

http://shoutout.wix.com/so/4KydbkaC#/main

...Or, directly, enter my personal website:

http://federicateresafaccin.wix.com/petite-parce-que

New caricatures

These are the latest caricatures I've made for one of my friend's graduation. In our group of friends we have this particular tradition of doing two caricatures for one person (one more funny and naïf, the other one more sexy and mischievous). Usually my friend Carla and I work together for the graduand, but, since this time the person who was supposed to graduate was Carla, I've done the two caricatures of her! It has been a lovely day and I'm very proud of her! I hope you'll enjoy them, bonne journée!

P.s.: If you are interested on having any sort of caricatures, you can contact me by e-mail ( federicafaccin92@gmail.com ) or on facebook ( https://www.facebook.com/federica.faccin.1 ). 

CARLA

Thinking about homeland

Lately I've been making some commissions for dear friends and one of them asked me this portrait of her. I know it might be nothing special, but I wanted to give also the impression that there was something in her mind in that moment, even though maybe there was nothing special (she's a woman who lives and works here at San Quirico (VI, Italy), but she left her family in Ukraine). It's made with watercolors and indian ink on paper. I hope you'll appreciate it, bonne journée! 

Caricature

Since my friends and I passed the third year of university, a friend of mine and I worked hard on various caricatures: drawings of our friends, which are going to appear on the "papiro" (the graduate's life written on a poster). Here are some of my friends' caricatures. 

If any of you needs a caricature, I'll be willing and pleased to do it (my mail is: federicafaccin92@gmail.com )! Have a nice day! 

SARA

ISABELLA

MADDALENA

GIULIA

Fetal

In this period I'm looking for the Academy where I'm going to spend my last two years of studies. I've been to Liège and seen again my dear fellows at Tournai; I've visited the Academy of Turin, but it hasn't given me the right hint to follow there my new studies. So maybe now I'm thinking on visiting the school of Brera in order to follow Art-therapy, but I still have to make up my mind..We'll see.. 

Anyway, this is a project I made two months ago for a contest at the Biennale di Soncino [a biennial exposition in the city of Soncino (CR, Lombardia)]. It's title is Fetal, as you can see from the position of the young lady, and it talks about the differences between the nature life and the human life. The three photos show three landscapes and macros of natural places and they symbolise (from left to right) birth, life and death; they're unified by the drawing of a female body in a fetal position. The fetal position is a symbol of protection and inner reflection and it may reveal a new rebirth of the spirit.

Hope you appreciate it, bonne journée à tous! 

Up here you have the sketch for Fetal made with indian ink and watercolors on paper.

These are the three photos of landscapes and macros of nature.

And at last you have the final work: Fetal, white pen and photos on black paper, 50 x 70 cm.

Wait..Think.

Wait..Think. it's a project for which I've been working since one month already (mostly because of the dry timing of the canvas..)and it will be exposed for the Valdagno che legge (Valdagno reads) week in a bar of my city. The aim of this project is to associate a part of a book to the artistic work; the theme was By reading nature.. and, in my case, I directly thought about Hermann Hesse's novel Siddharta (I'll post the quote in italian, because I read it in this language ).

"[...] Quando si risvegliò dopo parecchie ore, fu come se dieci anni fossero trascorsi: udì il lieve sussurrare dell'acqua, e non sapeva dove fosse, né chi l'avesse portato qui; schiuse gli occhi, guardò con meraviglia gli alberi e il cielo sulla propria testa, e si ricordò dove fosse, e come fosse venuto qui. Ma gli occorse per questo un certo tempo, e il passato gli apparve come avvolto in un velo, infinitamente lontano, infinitamente superato, infinitamente indifferente. Sapeva solo di aver abbandonato la propria vita di un tempo, sapeva solo che, pieno di disgusto e di miseria, aveva perfino voluto far getto della vita, ma che lungo il fiume, sotto un albero di cocco, era ritornato in sé, [...] egli si conosceva, conosceva la propria mano e i propri piedi, conosceva il luogo in cui giaceva, conosceva quest'Io contenuto nel suo petto, questo Siddharta, ostinato, strano, ma questo Siddharta, poi, era ancora mutato, rinnovato, mirabilmente riscosso dal suo torpore, mirabilmente ridesto, lieto e bramoso."

At first sight, my painting might be a little creepy, but I would like to associate it to a personal rebirth, due to the observation of nature and its changes.. I took inspiration from Tomas Rücker's photography (I think that his work is sublime) http://www.tomasrucker.com/ . 

The following is the sketch made with indian ink on paper.

And this is the canvas (oil on canvas, 70 x 50 cm.).