Take a Look at My Oil Painting GalleryI have been asked to put up a few paintings of mine online for this site. So here I am with several oil paintings. If you are interested in finding out whether they are for sale, please email me.
I recently started to paint large scale painting for gallery showings. I took photographs of the model and used two pictures of the same model to compose this painting. Lots of bright colors applied transparently over each other. I was painting the oil paints like watercolor. To finish it off, I used oil pastels and oil bars to give it accents. A fun piece for me because I got to use bright colors to convey the passionate emotion in this piece.
This piece is done for a charity cause. The subject has a very sad story. I tried to convey the positive side of her life and what it could be if she sees the hope. I did a lot of pencil sketches from life and used a photograph I took of her for this painting. Like the first piece above, I was playing around with oil paints like watercolor.
I had lots of fun creating this portrait of my daughter Sophia. I adopt a very different approach from my usual formal commissioned portraits. I juxtaposed elements about her love of animals and facets of her personality in this piece using 'unrealistic' colors.
This is a plein aire painting over the Renaissance city in the hottest summer in Europe in the past 50 years(2003) I survived the heat, however. My handy dandy umbrella saved me from roasting under the sun while I was painting this piece. I adopted a more traditional way using opague and thick paints.
Not quite a plein aire piece because of the scale. However, I took some pictures and I did a quick sketch on site for the key color notes. I worked quick on this piece. As a result, it looks more 'impressionistic'.
This painting is done from different composites of photos and impressions I recorded in my sketch book. I used very thick paints and muted colors to convey the coldness of winter. I worked on the composition for a while before I started to paint.
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