4 still life paintings – latest commission

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Imagine that you’re an artist it’s April Fools’ Day and right than you’re receiving a commission proposal for 4 paintings and an ask for a painting to sell ..both from the same person … a person about you’re hearing for the first time and who’s just mailed you that want to decline a purchase …
Sounds pretty interesting, isn’t it !?
How many of you would take this seriously? I bet not many…
Well, I did it and I replied as on any normal situation.
Results? One painting sold and other 4 custom paintings. Of course, the commissioner payed first that painting and 40% of the commission’s price.
The funny thing is that I was talking to an artist pal who had denied an offer for an artwork few days before April Fools’ Day because he assumed that is a fake buyer.
Here are the commissioned paintings ; 30×40 cm / 12×16 inches , oil on canvas
Oh and I met again in this commissioner an art lover who gave me the complete freedom of creation!
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wine and spaghettiwine and cheese
cheese and fruitswine and fruits

Landscape commission

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Continuing the efforts of getting up to date my blog , I found a bit of time to write today.
OK… so… on March I completed another commission. It is a landscape.
My commissioner told me that she gives me the freedom of creations and all she wants is a landscape… “a bit surrealistic landscape”.
From the previous emails I had got the feeling that she wants a real landscape having a surrealistic aura or such …
My first choice when is about surrealistic real landscape ,lol, is Meteora’s monasteries of Greece.
So naturally, I’ve chose some pictures of Meteora as reference then used my imagination in order to complete this commission.
Well, I’ve found in the end that my X-sense of mind reading don’t work so well as I was convinced …hahaha
My customer wanted it a bit more surrealistic but, luckily, as a true art lover she assumed the fact that she gave me the freedom of creation!
Can you believe this? She even didn’t want to see a preliminary sketch or “in progress” photos !!!
This kind of art lovers are so rare around the world!
I was really flattered ! Really flattered! … I felt like an outrageous pricey well known contemporary art star ! Thank you very much Andrea and God bless you!
Here’s the picture. It’s an oil on canvas, 40×50 cm (not sure of size ..maybe bigger , sure not smaller)
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If you’re an owner of a painting made by me, you know that my paintings in person looks much better.
Meteora - surreal landscape

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Peruvian beach scape – commission

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Peruvian beach
I finished this commission on February this year, but I hadn’t got time to write a line about it.
I’m doing it now :)
It’s a beach street on Peru.The commissioner had very specific requirements so I was needed to combine several photos in order to get it ready.
It was a very challenging task but in the end it came up as a nice experience and I’m sure that it will help me a lot on future similar commissions.
Size is 40×30 cm (12×16 inches) oil on canvas

Sliced orange and soda

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Refreshment

A couple of weeks ago, a customer suggested me to paint something showing water.
Well, this new painting is the result. It’s a glass of soda and a sliced orange. There’s also a piece of orange in the glass, too.
The size of  this oil painting on canvas is 18×24 cm /  7×9.5 inches. Sides are staples free and painted dark brown.
Here’s a link to a YouTube clip I made showing this painting in progress. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yylRWaFVmrI

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