Painter
Winter is reflexive, contemplative and dark. There may be the distraction of the holidays and the particular activities associated with them, but the overall impression is different. Winter is colder and the clouds rest more heavily in the sky. There is a general hardening which is coupled with inactivity and inerzia. It is a wonderful …
I can’t complete my discussion about emotion and painting without identifying the underlying causes. In this case, what is the cause of the emotion? For the analysis of this question, I will rely on the four causes of Aristotelian thought; specifically the causa efficiens and the causa formalis. The attributes of the causa efficiens are …
Recently, I have been trying to focus on the source of emotion during the act of painting. The connection between any form of art and emotion is always present. The most common thought is that the creative act touches or in some way is in contact with emotion. This relationship is not to be taken …
‘I didn’t know anyone painted en plein air anymore,’ I hear a voice over my shoulder say. I stand in front of my french easel while painting a beautiful view of the west hill-side of the Campidoglio hill that reaches to the ancient theater of Marcello. I turn to see a warmly-dressed and hooded figure …
There’s something strange about standing in front of a building or group of buildings or a square for 2 to 3 hours and watching what is before your eyes for no reason but the sheer joy of it. You see the light change in way that is quite surprising. The changes can be fast or …
In winter when the sky is still dark, the city begins to wake up. At dawn, the drivers, the bakers, the janitors, the teachers, the office employees, the newsagents and the bartenders take to the streets. Coming from ethnically different experiences two different families of people meet: there are those who are yawning and finishing …
I talk to myself while I am painting in the city. Maybe this is the reason that most of the passing crowd doesn’t bother me much. I talk to myself from the minute I start setting up. I don’t do it consciously but I realize that I am not just thinking but I actually talk …
There is nothing like painting with oil paints. If you have never painted with oils you are missing a truly unique experience in your life. If you are an experienced painter, I don’t think I need to insist about its supremacy in two-dimensional mediums. The biggest problems with oils are the transport, clean-up and the …
A fine line has been drawn between illustration and ‘Figurative’ painting. Throughout history, painters occupied themselves with the subject of a story. They personalized well-known themes or attempted to ‘chronicle’ (from Greek khronos “time”) an event or story regardless of its reality. The artist’s ability to transcend the subject determined in many cases that paintings …
I’m not crazy about painting from a photograph. I much prefer to stand in front of physical subject matter and try to catch the vibration that the real light is giving me. Of course, painting from reality is more difficult to organize at times and requires more attention to the circumstances rotating around the moment …