Tuesday, September 24, 2013
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Monday, August 26, 2013
The Seamstress - Figurative Paintings inspired by Grigorescu
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Oil on canvas, 15cm x 25 cm |
Looking to understand his art, I made a series of paintings inspired by Nicolae Grigorescu, three of them exposed on this blog.
Landscape Paintings - Sheep at Gura Humorului.
Oil on canvas, 30cm x 23cm |
Labels:
brazi,
Gura Humorului,
landscape,
oi,
peisaje,
pictura in ulei,
summer
Harvest, oil painting
Zaporozhian Cossacks of Ukraine Writing a Letter in Reply to the Sultan of Ottoman Empire
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Oil on canvas, 230 cm x 150 cm |
I was guided closely for all steps by my very good teaches in fine arts - my father having a uninterrupted hobby for photography techniques and my mother - who graduated the School of Fine Arts as a hobby and she continues to dedicate herself to oil painting. I managed to finish the picture in 3 months, spending one day to paint each human face and about another 2-3 days to complete the siluete and clothing.
Because painting is not standard size, frame support for canvas is hand made from pine wood in section 4 cm x 6 cm and further reinforced. I used canvas made
of linen with high density. I prefer the surface of linen for painting
even is more expensive as cotton fabric because is more resistant in
time. For preparing the canvas I used an emulsion prepared by an old recipe that includes white zinc powder, bone glue and boiled linen oil.
I put two coats on and I use also sandpaper to polish the painting
surface. The third and last layer applied was a diluted solution
including also bone glue, to correct the canvas permeability. The Photographic copy of the original picture on a A3 size is enlarged to canvas using millimeter scale using paper and is transposed on canvas with carbon paper. Human figures are painted with very small sizes (widths between 0.3mm and 3mm) to reply the details, for silhouettes and clothes I used brushes between 3mm and 7mm width. Areas of painting on which I returned during painting were varnished in advance. Painting is protected with a varnish layer applied after few months of drying.
Sunday, August 25, 2013
Village during Winter Holidays
Flori de toamna - tufanele - studiu
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Oil on canvas, 25cm x 40 cm |
Autumn in few words
Oil on canvas, 35cm x 20 cm |
The transparency effect of colored layers led me to stop in time...
Impressionism Influences - The Miss with Red Umbrella
Saturday, August 24, 2013
Dancing in the Carpentry Workshop
Impressionism Influences - Study for Street in late November
Oil on canvas, 40 cm x 30 cm |
Actually on this small painting I was trying to catch on canvas the atmosphere of a foggy November evening when all shop windows on boulevard are lit up and the trees still have plenty of red and gold leaves despite that everyone seems to do shopping for the coming winter holiday season.
Thursday, August 22, 2013
Lilac paintings - Flower Bouchet, 2011
Oil on canvas 30cm x 40cm |
The first painting from a series of three. Each spring - April or beginning of
May - we can't wait the lilac to bloom - we have an old one (meaning 30 years)
- needing a lot of carefull pruning - with lot of violets flowers and another
two - younger - violet and white flowers. Each spring we pick flowers from
them - carefully to do not affect how they look - and make nice bouchets for
our home. This year I decided to remember them on paintings too.
Lilac Paintings - Bouchet with an antique oil lamp, 2011
Oil on canvas, 30cm x 40cm |
The idea of this painting comes from the game between lights and shadows on the
lilac bouchet, due to a nearby floor lamp, observed by me on the evening. Much
better as the floor lamp, the antique oil lamp (I have it from my aunt Ana)
formed a warm and friendly light on lilac flowers, highlighted by the white
lilac placed in the front.
The Shepherd - Figurative painting inspired by Grigorescu
Landscape Paintings - Fair in 1700's Bucharest.
Oil on canvas, 41cm x 28 cm |
Venice painting - street view
Marine paintings - The Fishing Boat
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
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