I have been painting all my life. It's great wonder then that I have nothing to show for it online.
I have been doing oils and grand things like that, but always focused on the human form.
However, several things (life that is) made me go back to the loveliness of watercolour and water based media.
I am still finding my way there, but ink, tempera (egg and acrylic medium) and watercolous are my main focus now. Something I can scan and share with the rest of the world.
I love the idea of sketching my way through life. Of documenting things, events and feelings, or just an image that pleases me a lot.
Water based media have a long and venerable tradition. It's part of the near east and Mediterranean world , a world that has to do with the sea, the sky, the sun, the humanistic tradition, the history that links the peoples of the region and the cultural give and take. It's such a world of beauty.
That beauty has always been my great love. The icons, that go back to ancient painting, gave me the technical guidance and freedom for expression. I think I've left my oil days back for good.
Anyway, I also love learning languages, and hopefully one day I will be able to speak most of the neighbouring languages, apart from the main european ones. Whoever said "my mind belongs to the west but my heart belongs to the east" was talking about me.
Mission statement (well... at least a promise to myself):
Many many sketches, paintings, work to be done. Just work!
I have been doing oils and grand things like that, but always focused on the human form.
However, several things (life that is) made me go back to the loveliness of watercolour and water based media.
I am still finding my way there, but ink, tempera (egg and acrylic medium) and watercolous are my main focus now. Something I can scan and share with the rest of the world.
I love the idea of sketching my way through life. Of documenting things, events and feelings, or just an image that pleases me a lot.
Water based media have a long and venerable tradition. It's part of the near east and Mediterranean world , a world that has to do with the sea, the sky, the sun, the humanistic tradition, the history that links the peoples of the region and the cultural give and take. It's such a world of beauty.
That beauty has always been my great love. The icons, that go back to ancient painting, gave me the technical guidance and freedom for expression. I think I've left my oil days back for good.
Anyway, I also love learning languages, and hopefully one day I will be able to speak most of the neighbouring languages, apart from the main european ones. Whoever said "my mind belongs to the west but my heart belongs to the east" was talking about me.
Mission statement (well... at least a promise to myself):
Many many sketches, paintings, work to be done. Just work!
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