absence of blue

It seems there were more things to be said on collage - and through collage, so I came up with one more piece. In this case, the heavy use of decollage, gives a more raw feeling. Older collages, washed paper in chlorine bleach, acrylics, post-it, were used on multiple layers to give the above result.

the Pearl

It's always the same for me, I never know where I am heading for (though it's easier to say where I don't want to go), what is going to happen to every little project. As in this case, i had no idea of what it was going to look like in the end. Anyway, i had the chance to play, putting together different kind of elements, references, ideas, styles and technics in an ensemble that feels coherent to me.

Practising on illustration

Ok, let me explain you what is going on here. Usually an illustration takes me about two weeks, half of the time goes to rendering the face, since my work is mainly "portrait oriented". In this case I tried to cut down the time to three days (in fact, it could have been just a couple) and produce a coherent result. It took me just a few minutes to make the rough sketch,(since the point was also to make a figure out of my imagination, with no reference) and I thought that I shouldn't try anything more elaborate, just go on and develop it into an illustration. What i always bore in mind was to respect the pencil lines, that's why I tried to keep them as they were, without making them more smooth in the photoshop. The certain feeling that comes out, i believe that is the result of the scanned pieces of paper i used, pieces that i had already washed in chlorine bleach, to make them lose their color. 


"Io sono Juno", means in Italian "I am Juno", the Roman name for the Ancient Greek Goddess Hera, Zeus' wife. The white part of her costume, was mend to resemble the column of a Greek temple. Finally, chromatically this piece of work is based on white, red and blue colors, which are often used in flags, such as those of UK, USA or France, and in this case i chose them to give a sense of power to the figure.