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.).

Watercolors

Lately, I'm working on improving my watercolors skills, after my friends bought me a stock of watercolors and brushes for my thesis. I'm not so used to watercolors, but I hope to improve and to get to a personal and an original way to use them. These two are my first tests of drawing with watercolors and they show two different places: the first one is the "Molen De Valk" a windmill tower in the city of Leiden (Netherlands); the second shows a vew of the leaning tower of Pisa. Have a good day! 

Vanitas (Golden Canvas)

 I finally finished my first three years of academy on the twenty-fifth of February and now I have to find the right academy for my fourth and fifth year of studies. Here are five canvas for my final exame (the last photo shows the reflect of light on the gold foil on the canvas). They were supposed to explain the vanity of the material assets by showing them with the five senses. They're all 50 x 50 cm, made with golden leave, indian ink and acrylic colors (2014 - 2015).

Life Drawing

Here is a little sketch from Croatia made at the beach of Medulin. I used ink and watercolor pencils. Bonne journée!