Friday, 10 April 2015

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.).


Friday, 27 March 2015

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! 




Tuesday, 17 March 2015

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).







Wednesday, 17 December 2014

Life Drawing

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



Monday, 17 November 2014

Vanitas (Sketchbook)

Voilà, des autres vanités (en attendant le livre "Les vanités dans l'art contemporain" depuis presque un mois, mais bon..). Ce sont des dessins de recherche avec l'encre de chine(aujourd'hui j'avais envie écrire en français). Une bonne journée!





Sunday, 26 October 2014

Vanitas (Sketchbook)

Today I'll leave you three other "Vanitas" and I'll begin to write down something about my thesis (I can do it, yes!).





Tuesday, 14 October 2014

Vanitas (Sketchbook)

Here is a new post about my thesis work: the following pictures are drawings I made, in order to study the "Vanitas" theme. Bonne soirée!