Every now and then I go outdoors to some lovely place, like the Botanical Garden. I take a board, pastels, markers, watercolor crayons and start painting. I draw almost like I paint. That is, I make divisionistic spots mixed with messy lines. Everything happens faster, so I can afford to be more expressive ;) In the attached photos you will also see my drawings from one of the still lifes from the wonderful art studio in Wrocław, Reja 17.
As for the ornaments... I don't remember exactly what year they come from, certainly from before 2018. These were my modest experiments with stylized botanical drawings. I don't rule out that I will come back to them if there is a need for them. If any of the landscapes or ornaments caught your attention and you would like to order something similar, please write to me. We'll definitely come up with something :)
Outdoor drawings and ornaments
A cute fox, isn't it? Fox from the Hundred Acre Wood (40 x 60 cm; acrylic on canvas, 2018) is a unique painting because it is my first one painted from several photos. I used photos of a fox, grass... and the background is trees from the beautifulArboretum in Wojsławice (in Lower Silesia). Even though the animal is red, the pink and purple color reflections on the fur cool it down. They make it an organic part of this fairy-tale space with cool colors. I am very pleased with the grass, it is painted divisionistically and yet looks very realistic. The fox belongs to my uncles today. When I visit them, Fox looks at me.
The Silver Raven (60 x 40 cm; acrylic on canvas; 2017) went to the same friend who bought Mount Fuji. I like ravens very much, I consider them beautiful and very intelligent creatures. In one book I read that ravens see themselves not as black creatures, but as silver, emanating a luminous glow. This is the genesis of Kruk. The background is an abstract yellow and orange, complementing the silver and purple bird.
Here, as you can see, I gave up painting solely from photos and started using my imagination more intensively.
Forest in autumn's vesture from 2017 (100 x 70 cm; acrylic on canvas) is still my largest painting on canvas to date. It's also the only one I sold through the gallery, really ;) The idea of painting this motif was born in my head because I wanted to explore only warm colors, which I haven't done yet. An important change is that the spots are smaller here and made with a different brush.
The large format and my labor-intensive technique meant that it took me a very long time to make it. I haven't painted a similar format before, but I admit that my paintings from the Climate Cycle are getting bigger and maybe one of them will finally surpass the Forest in size :)
Mount Fuji (50 x 30 cm; acrylic on canvas; 2016) is my smallest work. I painted this pagoda for the longest time - I wanted all the foreshortenings to look natural. Phew, it worked.
I can paint architecture, but I don't do it as intuitively as I do nature. I like the "bluishness" of this image, which contrasts wonderfully with the red details on the pagoda. My friend bought the painting.
Autumn Alley (60 x 40 cm; acrylic on canvas) is a painting commissioned by my friends in 2015 or 2016, I don't remember well. They wanted to buy a artwork that I had already given to someone else, so I decided to paint a similar motif.
The spots, as in the Hills above, are larger than in later cycles. The motif of leaves falling and lying around makes this perhaps the most impressionistic of my paintings.
Tuscan hills in the sun are from 2016 (60 x 40 cm; acrylic on canvas). When I painted this artwork, I used slightly larger brushes, so the spots are larger. They look interesting and I'll probably come back to them someday.
The hills have their own charm, warm colors and a bit of rusticity. They stole the heart of my mother's friend and are now hanging in her new home.
When I started painting works on canvases, I used acrylic paints. For my impasto painting, I needed a good quality medium, so I bought a lot of tubes of Reeves paints. I still have some of them and use them to make underpaintings for oil paintings.
nature as a foundation.
Already at first glance you can see that nature plays the first fiddle in my work. She is the most important or at least equal heroine in subsequent Cycles. When I started painting my first serious paintings, landscapes turned out to be my first choice. They were where I felt most confident. I made them either from photos or from nature, outdoors.
The paintings presented here are no longer available because it has been a long time since I painted them. I want to show them to you, because without them there would be neither the Egyptian Cycle nor the Climate Cycle. Everything results from our previous choices. In landscapes, I developed a palette without black - I replaced it with dark purple and Prussian blue. And that's how it stayed.
PS. If one of the paintings presented here caught your attention and you would like to have something similar at home (or give it to someone as a gift), of course you can order it. I'm always happy to paint a new landscape!
Landscapes
(flora and fauna)
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