Technique
I never paint "materially", I do not fancy the actual painting characteristics (brush strokes, color thickness, color mixing on canvas...), I actually draw with painting colors on canvas. My painting is always anticipated by a drawing or a sketch on paper. This preparative drawing can sometimes last for years, a long process through which the original plan gets sharpened and defined.
When the drawing is ready, it gets scaled on canvas through the grid scaling process and then painted with acrylic colors. I love to obtain flat colored surfaces, with no gradients or shades. If the shadow is to be made, it has to be just a slightly darker version of the color of the surface it is shadowing. Most of the times it is made by adding a little bit of black to it. Then the shadow is laid with the sharp confining line above the surface color.
To make colors covering and to obtain that flat surface effect, sometimes I have to give few hands of color. If the plan is to use softer and lighter colors it is easy to just add white color and it will cover much more. If the goal is to use darker colors, especially red ones, few hands of color will be needed to get the satisfying level of covering.
I lay colors until the separating line, which I leave with some white space from both sides, as an indicator for further black outlines.
When I finish to apply color, when all lights and shades, all color details, are completed I draw thick, harmonious curved outlines.
Depending on consistence of black acrylic and on how long and straight lines are to be made, I make it more or less liquid.
I love high contrast and opaque surfaces so I use to paint all the work, once it's finished, with the transparent opaque lack with UV protection. It is also an useful technique to protect the work.
My favorite is to paint on big canvases, over 2 meters high. The future challenge will be the outdoor painting, murals, huge wall paintings. This would give me an opportunity to concentrate less on details and to focus more on the overall painting process.
When the drawing is ready, it gets scaled on canvas through the grid scaling process and then painted with acrylic colors. I love to obtain flat colored surfaces, with no gradients or shades. If the shadow is to be made, it has to be just a slightly darker version of the color of the surface it is shadowing. Most of the times it is made by adding a little bit of black to it. Then the shadow is laid with the sharp confining line above the surface color.
To make colors covering and to obtain that flat surface effect, sometimes I have to give few hands of color. If the plan is to use softer and lighter colors it is easy to just add white color and it will cover much more. If the goal is to use darker colors, especially red ones, few hands of color will be needed to get the satisfying level of covering.
I lay colors until the separating line, which I leave with some white space from both sides, as an indicator for further black outlines.
When I finish to apply color, when all lights and shades, all color details, are completed I draw thick, harmonious curved outlines.
Depending on consistence of black acrylic and on how long and straight lines are to be made, I make it more or less liquid.
I love high contrast and opaque surfaces so I use to paint all the work, once it's finished, with the transparent opaque lack with UV protection. It is also an useful technique to protect the work.
My favorite is to paint on big canvases, over 2 meters high. The future challenge will be the outdoor painting, murals, huge wall paintings. This would give me an opportunity to concentrate less on details and to focus more on the overall painting process.