Acrylic, oil and mixed media

Acrylic, oil and mixed media

This time I'm glad to talk about a multidisciplinary artist who can expressed himself by different means, Nacho Recio. He develops in his paintings the oil, acrylic or mixed techniques with complete ease and prevailing his inner vision of the external or internal facts of life and universe. In fact, this is what it is abstract about, a personal and unique vision of the world.

Here you have some of his paintings that teaches us how to let ourselves go and creat from the deepest of our soul.

Here you can find more information about him and his different artworks:

http://www.nachorecio.com/

What about oil?

What about oil?

Some think that the oil is out of fashion today, they relate it to the old Renaissance painters. Others complain about drying time, the difficulty of handling and cleaning materials. Personally, I believe that oil is for certain types of artists and works, but can provide great satisfaction.

You need to have some of these features to use it properly:

1. Do not be lazy
2. To be organized
3. Do not go crazy every time you tha you have to clean brushes, palettes, etc.
4. Be patient
5. Be aware that learning is long, and
6. love this technique

There  are no limits for oil painting, you can develope any style (not only portraits and landscapes). I believe that in a world that seems to move ever faster we want everything to be done right now, but oil gives us the opportunity to evade the rush and focus on our work and creativity. Why not try?

I let you one of my works as an example with oil:

Laura Greco

Helplessness

Oil on canvas

50 x 70

More about acrylic

More about acrylic
We can show lot of examples about what you can get with acrylic. This time, I choosed this beautiful abstract picture of Louise Adams.

This artist from Canada outstands with bright colours, shapes and lines and she's always exploring and experimenting. As I told you in some posts, we have to enjoy work.

Ok, here is the artwork, and of course the price is not for the original art.

What about acylic?

What about acylic?

Acrylic is one of the most used techniques in recent decades. It takes time to get adapted to this kind of material, but you can get very good artworks.

It works layer upon layer and it dries extremely fast. It is one of the most used materials today.

If oil makes you lose patience because of its drying time and  if you don't fading away but with layers, then acrylic is the right medium for you.

Despite of what many believe, you can get very good transitions in light or dark, it's just practice. 

Others use it for spot painting and abstract, for which it's (at least to me) the best one.

It can also be used combined with other materials in a mixed technique.

Everything is up to you!

You Chose

Laura Greco

40 x 60 cm

Acrylic on Canvas

I'll post other artists artworks soon!

Which is the best medium for us?

Which is the best medium for us?

Sometimes we wonder which medium is best for us. Oil, acrylic, water color, pastel? There are lot of mediums and techniques now and to choose one depends on what we want to do. It may take us some time deciding and more to practice with them.

Beyond the drying time, I think it's a matter of pleasure. Do you enjoy working with acrylic and volumes? or Do you love the soft slide of oil? and besides that, do you prefer contrast or softness? We can create magnificent works with any technique whether if it's ancient or modern. The most important is to enjoy what we do and choose the one that help us to really show what we want to say with our paintings.

In next posts we'll talk about each particular technique, meanwhile, just paint!

Ancestral fear of hell

Acrylic on canvas

60  x 40

Illustrations and commercial artworks

Illustrations and commercial artworks

Most of us work with illustrations and commercial works to earn our life. There are many ways to sell our work, some better than others. The matter is that during the last decades things changed a lot. 

There was a time when we had to go with our portfolio (on paper) to show the potential clients what we do. Now, things are different, and we have the opportunity to show what we do online. 

Like this:

And remember, when a door closes an other gets opened...

Starting point

Starting point

There are two ways to start a work: we know what we want to say from the very beginning and we try to find de way to express it or we simply know perfectly well what we want to compose. The other is when we want to please the others, so we try find a subject that could be interesting to other people.

Both are valid, one is for our own pleasure and the other is to earn our life with a commercial artwork. Whatever the reason is let's not stop to do what we love: "painting".

But going back to the tittle of this, the only way to start is just starting, forgetting about what other people might think about our work, that's what make us original.

Woman and social stablishment

Oil on canvas

50 x 40 cm