Prekrasna

Hello dear readers,

Remember I talked about Chuck Close and his impressive portraits; not only because of the grid technique also because of the dimesions; so I decided to take on a bigger task after my first attempt of  this technique. 

After I finished Oko I wanted to paint my girlfriend and gave it to her as a gift; the problem was that the size and the spare time I had were not proportional.

Besides I wanted to be a surprise but with all the time that took me even her parents saw it and actually titled it differently. So again prekrasna is in Slovak and it means beautiful. Talking about languages. I'll be learning Italian and Slovak next year; I'll keep you posted about my advancement on that end.

Back to the painting; lately I've been putting some hours and here is the final product. I started by painting the background colors; that took a lot of time, I wanted to be precise because usually the portraits does not resemble the model. I this case I wanted to show how beautiful my girlfriend is.

 

 "Prekrasna" 36X48 Inches, oil on canvas, 2014.

 Do you have some suggestions? comment and share.

Español - Spanish  

 

It all started with Chuck

Hello dear readers,  to be honest I always loved arts; maybe thanks to my brother because he used to paint and me next to him for hours just watching.

One day as part of my job I was introduced to a project, the goal was to rewrite the website of a prestigious art gallery. We had to develop a customized search engine to find artworks, it was then that the name of Chuck Close came across the table,  across computers and across cold programing code. 

The memories of my brother painting came right away when we started searching for Chuck's art; impressive even on a small digital picture of portraits; taller that a regular man; I was in awe.

The project continued and I started studying Chuck Close's portraits. Based on a grid technique; according to the descriptions made in videos I found on youtube; Chuck Close takes pictures of close friends and family submitted to a grid and then painted to create massive portraits.

I found this way of painting a great technique for me to start in the arts world. Soon after discovering this artist I painted "Oko" which means eye in Slovak.  

Oko, 20X20 Inches, oil on canvas, 2014.

Why Slovak?  Well that's another story.

Français  Español