Good day to start a blog! My morning
started fresh with my hands getting dirty from ceramics which are without a
doubt so much fun regardless.
Anyway, today’s artists are basically professional
painters, whose works I have great passion for. Their paintings are remarkable
and their similarities would be brush/finger marking.
The first artist, Leonid
Afremov, is personally my favorite.
Afremov was born in Belarus 1955 and currently lives in Playa Del Carmen,
Mexico. His paintings are collected all over the world. He asserts his passion
towards art when he says, “I love to express the beauty, harmony and spirit of
this world in my paintings. My heart is completely open to art.”(Leonid
Afremov) His mediums are oil paint and pallet knife. I guess he likes to mark on canvas.
He mostly paints landscape,
cityscape, and figures. His unique paint markings are really easy to recognize
and the colours of his paintings are relatively all similar. He is greatly influenced by Michael Flohr,
the impression artist, and people might argue that both artists have somewhat
of a similar style. However I think Afremov’s paintings are rather bright and
positive compared to Flohr’s.
I love his style and it brings me
into the scene with all the fun colors.
Iris
Scott is our second artist who also has a strong and exemplary style in her
paintings. She graduated in Washington State University from Fine Arts Bachelor
and moved to Taiwan to dedicate her art skills at a low cost of living.
Unlike
other paint artists that use paint brushes, she uses her fingers to paint. One
of the reasons why she started to paint using her fingers is probably her
laziness. She did not want to wash off her brushes every time she would use a
dark or brighter color and so she decided to use fingers as she can simply wipe
them off.
I
was a child when I heard of finger painting. I pressed my fingers on to various
colours of stamp pads and stamped on clean sheet of papers while playing
around. Like this!
For
Iris Scott, it is not just about finger stamping; she has a fine finger
movement, which dictates her thick and juicy texture on canvases. Her works are
also concentrated on outdoors, landscape and figures.
Conclusively,
both artists use different styles as well as mediums. But one commonality in
them is the marking on the canvas. They have such a unique style to be
recognized and their works are colorful which are filled up with their specific
impressions.
If you are interested to see more
works of two artists, feel free to visit these sites!
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