Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's story

The Story of a boy who went forth to learn fear

   To interpret a story from the Grimm brothers it's interesting and also a good challenge creating a painting on canvas for this subject because this topic needs to be illustrated in a little book from my point of view. The storyline is very fascinating because the main character, a young boy have to spend and survive three nights in a damned castle. On the first night he is surprised by two crazy black cats, however on the second night happens something strange, because while the boy was sitting on his chair half-men felt in front of him, and on the third night the boy was attacked by a giant old man.
    I already known at the beginning that, I have to paint something different, something special and finally I decided to make a diptych. I wanted to play a little bit with the space and with compositional possibilities what were given by these two canvases positioned near each other.
   I am still working on this painting...

Micro nature

   These are some of my recent works which represents my special relationship with nature, exactly that feeling from my childhood, when the summer vacation ended and I had to go back to a gray and lifeless area, in the city. When I was a child and this time approached everything had changed, the day's became shorter, my mood changed totally and I wanted to be there just one day to see ''my place'',this is something that I can't tell or write in words.

   Carl Gustav Jung, the great  psychiatrist, psychologist, analytic said that: ''Some thing which was born at a particular time of the moment bears all it's characteristics.'' I think he's statement completely confirms those indescribable feelings because these are a child's sensations but they are still active and lively in my mind and also unforgettable. Interestingly this feelings have revived, every year in this period after that time and every little detail or changing in the nature affects me and also owns a kind of developing meaning.
   This was the reason why I've made these paintings by using the possibility's of the painting instruments. The cheerful colors have just flood from my hearth but these colourfull word compositionaly is surrounded by two colorless atmospheric structures.

Reproduction

   

Rembrandt van Rijn is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in the European art and also the most important in dutch history. His contributions to art came in a period of great wealth and cultural achievement that historians call the Dutch Golden Age when this painting style, although in many ways antithetical to the baroque style that dominated Europe, was extremely prolific and innovative, and gave rise to important new genres in painting. Rembrandt's greatest creative triumphs are exemplified especially in his portraits and self-portraits of his contemporaries. For me they give a remarkably clear picture of the man, his appearance and his psychological make-up, as revealed by his richly weathered face. After the professor retired  the subject which was 'An artist's painting from german classicals', the main reason why I have chosen Rembrandt's portraits it's not because of this psychological fact but more the technical challenges. I think it's nearly impossible to reach that impression what he achieved on his canvas because of the difference between the colours what he used in that time and what we are using now days. Those colours especially, the brown was obtained from natural powders. While I was trying to copy Rembrandt's work I recognized that it's so hard to create those effect's by brush stroke's with oil colours made by modern technology what the baroque artist achieved. The message of this remark  it's not that it's impossible to do again what we see on he's canvases only we don't own those painting instruments which were made at the time of those old paintings and it's so hard to obtaine those surface fractures. I have prepared a 30x40 cm wood panel with special grounding and after that I painted with oil colours.

Reproduction made by myself after Rembrandt's self- portrait:

Anatomy...

   During the first semester of the second year I was studying in Venice, one of the most important area of the renaissance. At the ''Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia'', the art university of Venice, I spend a lot of my time in the anatomy studio. The professor who teache's anatomy was very friendly and helpful and also a very good teacher because I have learnt a lot from him. ''Armonizzare'' was the world what he always told, while I was drawing. These are the first three study's what I have made but to be honest I don't really like them :

Some time after I recognised the meaning of that magic word, ''armonizzare'', I started to search for the harmony between the figure and the space or background. I focused just on this and I was trying to find the technique for this challenge. The technique in what I've made these drawing is really simple, the use of the brush as an instrument:

A kind of before-after post...

Some of my studies (from the first year of the University)

 These images don't really represent any artistic ideeas and special views, they are just studies and experiment's which are very important for me. After practising and making a lot of drawings,each one of them seems different and that means there is some kind of evolution that stimulates me to draw more and more. By this word, evolution, I understand that, there are some techniques and also methods demanding lot of practice and experiment in every drawing and painting.

These few work's were made by pencil, pastel, carbon and oil paint (only the last one), on paper and cardboard.