Welcome! I hope you’ll enjoy your “permanence” in my site! Here I’ll post some deeper view of my works, such as creative works and the meanings behind my paintings.
I never leave to the fate anything.🙂 Form the biggest entity to the tinest detail there’s a meaning and a message. Who knows maybe you’ll be able to find a part of you as well behind it!😊
I’ll aslo post some personal thoughts and pieces of my life maybe.
The posts will be most in English but there’ll be some Italian too.😁
Lately, thanks to the lessons, I rediscovered how beautiful (and relaxing) watercolour are.
Usually I use Canson watercolour papers (300gr) and Windsor & Newton’s godets, and a 18/16 size brush (the bigger it is the more precise it’ll be), not to much expensive sets and the godets are student quality but they do their work!
I usually sketch a drawing in a sketch book and then I copy it the overhead projector or if I must copy another precise image, by directly putting the printed paper (and resized if necessary).
I do so because I don’t use erasers in the watercolour papers, they ruins the surface and then the colours spreads awfully.
I work so hard on the layers, I spend hours slowly darkening the colour, being sure to leave whites be otherwise the painting becomes flat.
It may appear boring but is quite relaxing especially with some good music (is metal considered relaxing?) and a cup of chocolate or tea.
I also have the honour to have my cutty Hope always on my thighs when I’m home!
After I’m finished shading I use fineliner, BIC pens, and graphite pencil to give extra shading and contour having a lovely illustration.
Maybe in the future I’ll dedicate more time to watercolour, I just love the effect it gives (and I love how can watercolour relaxes me)
Qualche volta mi piace dipingere quello che sento dentro: di solito la roba malinconica è il mio forte. È anche ciò che mi piace dipingere, se devo essere sincero.
Questo unicorno si chiama “Mesmerise”. Ho preso l’ispirazione da un mostro di Final Fantasy 8 per il nome, e anche quel nemico è una specie di cavallo, ho anche preso ispirazione da qualche cosa di porcellana.
Il dipinto è stato fatto con i Pastelli ad olio in un foglio 42×59 cm
Forse è il mood pandemico derivato dalle varie restrizioni o forse la stagione 😅, ma ultimamente mi sento abbastanza solo e malinconico rispetto a gli altri giorni, è mi sento davvero come se mi stessi infrangendo in mille pezzi in tutti i settori della mia vita: dal personale in cui vedo i miei obbiettivi sempre più irrealizzabili al lato sentimentale con tante delusioni e perdita di fiducia nell’umanità.
Trovo che i cavalli siano molto affascinanti e dipende dal contesto… Paurosi (Qualcuno ha nominato Fussli?😅) Comunque, li trovo completamente espressivi. Mi piace usarli per esprimere dure emozioni in tutta la loro crudezza. Volevo dare una sensazione oscura e opressiva all’artwork.
All’inizio volevo tenere l’intera opera oscura, ma poi ho pensato che usando colori complementari nello sfondo, l’unicorno sarebbe risaltato, devo ancora capire se ho preso la giusta decisione o meno; nel mentre che ascoltavo gli After Forever, ho deciso di “sfogare” la mia rabbia aggiungendo quell’effetto di aura oscura con il carboncino. La voce di Floor Jansen sa come muovere le giuste crode nel mio spetro emotivo.😁
Ed ecco qui! Il Mesmerise, un unicorno in frantumi ma che non rinuncia a sognare 😊
Sometimes I like to paint what I feel inside: I usually good at melancholic stuff. It’s what I like to paint most if I have to be sincere.
This Unicon is called “Mesmerise”. I took the inspiration from a Final Fantasy 8’s monster for the name which is also that a horse and a some kind of porcelain.
This painting is done in oil pastels on 42 x 59 cm paper (A2)
Maybe is the pandemic mood (and social distance, the curfew in Italy and other restrictions) or the weather 😅, but I feel kind of lonely and melancholic than other days, and I feel like I’m breaking into pieces in all sections of my life: form personal objectives becoming likely unrealizable to the love section full of failures and loss of trust in the human kind.
I find horses likely fascinating and depending of the contest… scary (Fussli anyone?😅) Anyhow I find them fully expressive. I like to use them to express hursh feelings in all their rawness. I wanted to give a dark and opressive feeling to the artwork.
In the beginning I wanted to keep the entire artwork dark, but then I thought that by using complementary colours for the background the unicorn would pop up, I still have to understand whatever I’ve made the right decision; and while I was listening After Forever songs I decided to “vent” my rage by adding those dark aura effects with charcoal. Floor Jansen’s voice knows how to move the right cords in my emotive spectrum.😁
And then: that’s it! The Mesmerise, a broken unicon which still holds on his dreams!😊
Davide Olla Art