Pastel Art

Artists Describing Their Art:

Varvara Vitkovska - I live in Riga Latvia, a friendly city that is open to everything new. After graduating from the St. Petersburg higher art school, I chose the pastel technique because I wanted to constantly improve my drawing skills. Then I started to paint with acrylics. After many years, I decided to return to the study of academic drawing and the canons of antique sculpture, mythology and the history of Ancient Greece. I am driven by attempts to comprehend the laws of beauty, perfection and harmony, although I know that this process is endless... Im obsessed with body proportions and when Im wrong with proportions, it makes me desperate and unhappy. My works are in private collections in Latvia, Russia and Italy....

Howard Brotman - My work is a way to depict forms in space, using color and its values. I like to look at common objects i.e. a tree, table, lamp, books etc and paint them in a way that is unexpected or out of the norm. For me, it opens up the challenge of going beyond the traditional and to explore the vast possibilities to making art. I began by working with a grid format where I learned about color and the emotion it depicts. After that I used acrylic paint and enamel which required very little time to dry which meant working super fast. Finally I turned to oil paints which I discovered can be applied transparently as well as opaque. Its a vibrant medium to use and blending color can be fun to explore. Most of my Abstract work tends to be conceptual and created through my imagination with a variety of subject matter that opens doors to exploration. I am a believer that creating art is not a final result or means to an end, but more like a process to experience. Art is about trusting yourself and making marks to support intuitive decisions. ...

Rebeca Calvogomez - I needed therapy. All this frustration, anger, sadness and introversion issues I've never been good at expressing my feelings with words, or asking for what I need, or saying no before I explode. And so come painting. No words, just images. Me, alone with my images. A perfect match. Even better, it could all be done with oil painting, so I needed turpentine, with that smell that I love so much maybe it makes me high, who knows. Getting your hands and clothes dirty, listening to the light sound of the brush on a canvas or a piece of wood and submerging myself in the colors and shapes that come to existence in front of me. That's how I find my pleasure. It started with painting images of small details, a tree, a rock, a street daily images that stayed with me because they captured my imagination, made me calm, or frightened me, or brought me back to some cherished memory of a sweet smell, or the wind on my naked body Windows into a world that was out there but come to live inside me. Then come "On Humanity", those abandoned dogs, and cook fights, bull fights, ...

Milen Boqnov - I am very sensitive person and i feel need to create something everywhere . I live in deep spiritual conditions.Sometimes i am crashed in rocks in my own psychic.And i have introduction in different ways of life and express experience.I share my art works with you , and if you fill that ....enjoy ...