My Dark Think

The face in the foreground is realized through the acrylic, but using the watercolour technique: the different tonalities of grey are obteined through the technique of “ velatura a perdere”, i.e.once you have darkened a zone you cannot make it clear anymore. The white colour of the canvas is the light point. Because of these particulair techniques, the working needs care and precision and takes a lot of time. At first sight the result is an image which seems a print, but from close up you can see the completely manual processing.
The background is a decorative motif obteined through the plane drawing up of black acrylic, with the pink pois, or gold pois.
Thanks to the combination of these two techniques the face seems emerge from the background.

The protagonists of my works are mostly faces, close-set against backgrounds ranging from optical to deco.
The series of paintings that I committed since 2006 always brings in the titles "My".
These selfportraits, portraits of people close to me or animals or superheroes.
However, the choice falls on images that I particularly striking for a detail or an expression.
I try to convey an emotion, a bridge with the user, images which remain engraved icons.