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| 'Bug', Unknown Artist |
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| 'Bug', Unknown Artist |
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| 6 3"x3" renderings of 'bug' Black marker on illustration board, final |
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| 6 3"x3" renderings of 'bug' Black marker on paper, phase IV |
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6 3"x3" renderings of 'bug' Black marker on newsprint paper, phase III |
The artwork and designs contained herein were mostly part of my education in Graphic Arts at the SouthHills School of Business & Technology. They are not meant to be re-published, printed or used in any way without the explicit authorization of the artist. Some of the works contain copyrighted materials. For more information, please visit my personal page: www.lucianosormani.com
Monday, September 13, 2010
School work; bug phase III, IV and final
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Saturday, July 17, 2010
From the vaults III
Inside the box, Pencil, crayon and watercolour on paper 1995
A city with nine gates as described by Marco Polo. Pencil and Conte crayon on paper, 1995
Above: These were assignment pieces done at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie during the orientation year.
One of my first paintings in elementary school, even though I was already considered to have a flair for drawing and painting. We were doing a class project where everyone had to paint a clown. The teacher asked me to draw an example clown for the rest of the class on the blackboard. I drew a typical clown with a brightly painted face, red curly hair etc. As the entire class set out to do their version of my example, I surprised everyone by painting this understated sad clown and forever cemented my reputation as the odd guy out.
Above: These were done in drawing class in Highschool
Ritual Palm Mask, vacation project Almeria july 1997 mixed media
Ritual Palm Mask, vacation project Almeria july 1997 mixed media
These masks were made on vacation in the far south of Spain, in the desert region of Almeria. It was very hot and dry during the day and there wasn't much to do. On the terrain around our vacation house were some old palm trees that had shed their leaves. The fallen palm leaves looked like tribal masks and that gave me the idea to actually turn them into real masks using basic tools, some paints and some found objects. The dried palm wood was extremely tough though, so there aren't many details. This small sketch was also made there:
Beach at Cabo de Gata, Almeria. July 1997 Ink and watercolour on paper.
Monday, July 12, 2010
At the Painters Fair II
This art is on fire!
Maybe it was the scorching temperatures, maybe it was the sub-zero economic climate or maybe it's just a question of taste, but this years painters fair wasn't the resounding succes I was hoping it would be. We had a different location this year, across from our old spot, which was good in that it had a lot of shade for a large part of the day, but bad because it was a corner spot that didn't have a lot of traffic. Nobody puts baby in a corner, but this time I didn't mind so much, I was able to display my works on both sides of the stand (not visible on the photo are two more paintings, the penguins and the rusty parrotfish).
Despite a number of positive comments and prices that were ridiculously on the low side, I only managed to sell one painting (the eye of the Gekko will now have a new home with my good friends Menno and Marjon, bless them) and all of two greeting cards. It's still beyond me how people can be attracted to my work, browse through the entire set of cards (yes some people actually went through the whole box of 63 cards which consisted of just 10 different ones) and not put down 1,50 euro. It's probably just me ;-)
With brush in hand, foto laurence Meijer
Foto: Yvonne Eggens
The fair encourages artists to show their skills by actually working on something during the fair. I Started a small pufferfish that was ideally suited for this, as it wasn't too big and used a basic set of colours. Especially kids seemd to love it. Maybe I should do a line of cute animals for kids rooms. Everyone loves brightly coloured fish and birds right?
I worked on the fish untill it juste became too hot and left Alex to hone his budding painters skills on the background. I tell you the boy has talent! Meanwhile the sweltering heat left none unaffected, from surly auctioneers to art fair patrons who fled to cooler places in droves (even if it meant hearing an out-of tune women's choir in the coolness of the church building). I did a few tours of the fair myself and with a few exceptions that were either beyond my budget or impossible to travel with, didn't see anything that seduced me into buying it. All in all it was a nice experience yet again and we had a lot of fun in a subdued, non-sweat inducing way. Next year I'll be in the US looking for artistic and legally non-visa-jeopardising opportunities.
Thank you Alex, Yvonne, Menno, Marjon, Ellen and Wilna for helping out!
Monday, July 05, 2010
Sunday, July 04, 2010
Thursday, July 01, 2010
Friday, June 11, 2010
Sunday, June 06, 2010
Petunia
Petunia final version, acrylics on canvas 16x20 inch
The lillypond, digital media
The lillypond II, Digital media
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Painting in America
Petunia in progress 1, acrylics on canvas 16x20 inch
Petunia in progress 2, acrylics on canvas 16x20 inch
Petunia in progress 3, acrylics on canvas 16x20 inch
Sunday, April 18, 2010
From the vaults II
Earliest memories, mixed media on paper 30x21cm ca. 1993
From a series called 'Curriculum Vitae'
Drunk at 16 mixed media on paper 30x21cm ca. 1993
From a series called 'Curriculum Vitae'
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