Painting, an Emotional Beginning
In 2006 as a single 70 years old, living in a tiny place, I felt for the first time to be “Master of my Life.” I decided to make the most of my little time left. What shell I do? I needed [...]
Places
If you don't climb the mountain you can't see the view After two years of painting flowers, landscape and freely improvising, I was hooked to painting with no return. I decided to deepen my learning about painting and about [...]
Techniques
Artists, who are by definition explorers, need to have access to a wide range of techniques. They want to experiment, try, learn, compare and choose what suits them best to fulfil their artistic goals. The more techniques they are exposed to, more [...]
Quotes About Creativity
Drawing 2012 “Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.” Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky “The importance of an artist is to be measured by the number of new signs he has introduced into the language of art.” [...]
Quotes About Abstract Art
Drawing 2011 "You shouldn't look at modern art as a scene you see out the window. Abstract painting exists within itself, it lives its own life. One should get a sensation from painting just as you get a sensation [...]
How I Paint
My studio in 2017 Painting process is different and unique for every artist, serving the artist’s personality, with its particular needs. I paint mainly for myself, trying to be true to myself, using this activity as a pleasant and [...]
My Constraints
I choose to express myself in painting, as the only creative activity I could do in my tiny place. In time my small living room turned into a mini-painting studio. Constraints are reflected by the painting technique I use, dictated by [...]
Constraints Enhance Creativity
All artists are confronting with constraints and must adapt themselves and their art to them. Ideal, work conditions are not easy and promptly attainable, but the presence of constraints in our work is not just negative. Constraints enhance our creativity, put pressure on [...]
Constraints and Options
It is natural for a human being to desire the best in his life, work, and environment. Between this wishful thinking and real life, there is always a gap we try to narrow. Drawing 2010 Life is a long chain [...]
Mood and Emotions
I do not know what others feel, but I observed that the way I am paintings, the quality of strokes I put down, the colors I use, to be tightly connected Biopsy to the mood I am in, influenced [...]