I believe in art. I believe that its purpose is to make people feel. I believe in it to express my mental processes. I use it as a language and as therapy. In my notes, plastic language predominates over verbal language. It relaxes me. It disconnects me. It gives me the opportunity to travel to places and meet characters that only exist in my imagination, to make them more tangible. I use fantasy as a way of constructing a personal truth that speaks to my feelings.
My passion for creating means that my work is more about creativity and originality than finishing. Over time, this has translated into greater synthesis and abstraction, a quest to convey as much information as possible using as few resources as possible. As a concept art should be.
In the case of miniatures, we are talking about short, quick projects, no more than three weeks. These projects usually begin with drawings and colour tests. Colour is a key element in my work. Rich, saturated, vibrant colour. Colour I use to convey calm, joy, sadness or anger.
This colour is accompanied by stain and line without blending. My brushstrokes speaks of me like the calligraphy of a handwriter. It is a soft gesture but it does not hide, it does neither understand why it should do it.
Another important element is the chiaroscuro. A simple chiaroscuro, without excesses in light sources and other distractors. To achieve this, I make multiple photographic, drawing and pictorial sketches after a brainstorming session. I draw conclusions and start editing. I combine professional acrylics with fillers, thickeners, mediums and other auxiliary products applied with brush and airbrush.
This process is almost always a shared one: day by day other painters can see on my social media how my projects are progressing, what problems I am facing and what my reflections on them are. I have kept this routine for the last five years. It acts as a diary for me and has become a resource to which many painters turn for inspiration.
I paint, breathe and share.
