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vintage

By admin in Gallery, Portraits

Materials: graphite pencils on A3, Bristol smooth 300g paper.

New drawing. This time I focused on the hair. I’m never satisfied with how I make it.. anyway.. this time I hope it’s a little better. Here is a zoom
Reference: Lady Esther Ralston

new life

By admin in Gallery, Portraits

Materials: graphite pencils on A3 Bristol smooth paper. Reference: baby chew by Kasey Lane

I made this draw last year, but forgot to submit it. It was just for fun.

Parents

By admin in Commissions, Gallery

Materials: graphite pencils on A4 200 g paper. Reference: client photo

No, this is not the last couple getting old. Even if the young man looks a lot like the older one. They are the parents of the young married boy. This is a present they received for their 20th wedding anniversary.

Wedding

By admin in Commissions, Gallery

Materials: graphite pencils on A3 Bristol smooth paper, 300 g.
Reference: client photo

Another commission done. A present the young man gave his wife. I did it in a short time, but I enjoyed the process.

Ballerina

By admin in Gallery, Portraits

Materials: oils on A4 Fabriano oil paper, 300g.
Reference: Ballerina

This is the first time I try oils and the second work I made using colors (first I used pastels). It was fun to do and to discover the feel of using something else but graphite. There is a lot to learn about oils, but I’ll definitely try it again.

Laurie Lipton

By admin in Articles

Browsing through the internet, I found the Laurie Lipton‘s web site. A great graphite artist, one of those artists you fall in love with at first sight of her work.. I was really shocked by the high quality of the drawings, by the techniques, details and imagination. You might also be shocked by the theme of the most drawings, but I found them genial approaches. A perfect Angelina Jolie portrait? No way. A point of view, a conception or a relief of an imaginary world. This is what Laurie’s work is.

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The power of grey

By admin in Articles, How it's made?

The main media that I work with is pencil on paper. Comparing it with painting or color pencils, the graphite is limited in colours. In fact you have only one colour: black (or more exactly a grey gamma). Beside this limitation, graphite is still fascinating. Why? Because of its simplicity, power in details… Let�s see from different points of view what the power of grey is.

First of all, according to the color theory, grey (British) or gray (American) describes the tints and shades ranging from black to white. Black and white are the result of the color mixture. There are two types of mixtures: the additive mixture (or light mixture) and the subtractive mixture (or pigment mixture) depending by the medium (light or pigment). The result of the additive mixture of the primary colors, red, green and blue is white, and the result of the mixture of cyan, magenta and yellow is black. (see the images below) www.wikipedia.org
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