Plein Air Painting 1 :)

1.5 hours of work. Oil on 40x50 canvas.

It was pure fun!

Some WIPs

Apollonia - The Making of...

A photo I took in Apollonia National Park , a little sketch i did of it :)

A little 19x29cm watercolor sketch - to test the colors I had in my imagination.

Gesso application on non-primed (non-prepared) canvas,  73x56cm - Step 1
Yeeeey for my ,completely my, own studio! :)

Step 2

"Apollonia", gesso and oils on non-primed canvas, 73x56cm
Done! 2.5 hours of work in my beloved new studio. This is the first time I paint a whole new oil painting here! 

Quick Studio Exercises

 These were done at a summer Color Workshop with Guy Avital and Ran Tenenbaum tutoring.

We've done many quick studio exercises and there are the best of mine from this fulfilling workshop.

Red and green palette - quick studio exercise
oil on cardboard prepared with gesso, 54x48 cm

Model in interior - quick studio execise
7 colors palette, no mixing between the colors
oils on canvas, 72x60 cm

6 colors, no mixing between the colors, quick studio exercise.
oils on canvas with windsor blue acrylics imprimatur, 69x58 cm
Van Gogh drawings inspiration

Выхода нет - No Exit (Sketch)

 oil on cardboard prepared with gesso

25x33 cm by Gali Lutski

Сплин - Выхода нет

Сколько лет прошло, все о том же гудят провода
Все того же ждут самолеты
Девочка с глазами из самого синего льда
Тает под огнем пулемета
Должен же растаять хоть кто-то

Скоро рассвет
Выхода нет
Ключ поверни - и полетели
Нужно вписать
В чью-то тетрадь
Кровью, как в метрополитене:
Выхода нет
Выхода нет

Где-то мы расстались - не помню в каких городах
Словно это было в похмелье
Через мои песни идут, идут поезда
Исчезая в темном тоннеле
Лишь бы мы проснулись в одной постели

Скоро рассвет
Выхода нет
Ключ поверни - и полетели

Нужно вписать
В чью-то тетрадь
Кровью, как в метрополитене:
Выхода нет
Выхода нет

The Making of "The Freudian Slip" painting, April - July 2015

80x80 oil on canvas, April - July 2015
I want to thank Guy Avital and Ran Tenenbaum for their amazing tutoring.
My art is upgraded to a whole new level thanks to these amazing artists!

Facebook and Etsy Store - Art by Gali Lutski

Facebook - Art by Gali Lutski

I am glad to share my new Facebook page with you! Don't be shy follow and like :hug:
I also have some old original artworks for sale and custom commissions of wood boxes on my brand new Etsy Shop!

Etsy Shop - Art by Gali Lutski

Welcome to my Summer Cleaning - Originals for sale on Etsy!

I am finally free to be an Artist as my full time job!

3 Meetings (weeks) - Working on a new large painting - Part 2

For the past 3 meetings (actually 3 weeks at the art course and 12 hours in total) I've been working on a large painting based on my previous sketches. See my Last Post .

Week 1 - Rough oil sketch directly on canvas, and some initial colors. 

(It's approximately 80 cm height and length - Don't remember the exact size, the painting is at the studio, so I'll check next time.)

Week 2 - Playing with colors

Week 3  - Adding attention to details and reworking the colors.

And a little desert for you - A cute Raccoon in Chinese hat (from this reference), a simple sketch in my little watercolor moleskine sketch book, inspired by Pom Poko animation movie by Studio Ghibli 

Have a great weekend and see ya at the next update! :)

Inspiration Wall Exercise Part 1 - Preparation Sketches

A summary from the recent 5 weeks - 

The bottom line of this assignment is  a long process of work on an individual painting. From A-Z.

This time we had to bring different inspiration photographs/paintings of different subjects and styles - to create diversity inspiration wall of references.

After that we did a process of sketching and rethinking on our references. As a result I changed all of my references and after a second try I ended up with these amazing inspirations

Lucian Freud - my new love! And photos of Lucian Freud and his studio by the photographer David Dawson

Egon Schiele

Franz Marc

By the way everybody choose whatever they like and what inspires them just right now, from travel photos to architecture and so on...

1 - My inspirations for this exercise :)

The next stage was to play around in order to build our own composition using the inspiration wall above.
I did small and simple pencil sketches just to find the right format, composition and interior.

2 - Simple play pencil sketches.

Next stage was to create some oil studies on cardboard covered with gesso. This assignment helps to understand the color scheme vs. composition relations for the future large painting that I will do.

The colors here are mainly black/yellow/red + some green, this is to understand the tone capacity, the composition and the depth of the future work.
We also could create complement colors oil sketches - but I didn't have the time to work on this one.
The colors you see here are not the colors that you'll see on the future big painting, these are play/search sketches for depth, color and composition research.

A tip - The use of  oil studies on cardboard covered with gesso is a cheap and sexy way to an art research you need to do in order to create a decent final painting!

Cardboard sketch 1 - black/yellow/red + some green color scheme assignment  (33x23cm).

Cardboard sketch 2 - black/yellow/red color scheme assignment (49x41cm).

Cardboard sketch 3 - black/yellow/red color scheme assignment a mix of the two above (49x41cm)

some of the brush strokes here are made with my weak right hand - I am a lefty, and that day I suffered from pain in my strong left arm. 

That's all for now. The next time I hope to show some work in progress on the large painting that will be based on the composition of these sketches.

P.s. I am in love with whippets (english dog breed), I am captured for life!

Have a great weekend,
Gali

Interior and Gesso Exercise

In short the exercise main points were - 

1. Work on the other side of the canvas - the one without gesso. Use gesso when you like and prefer.

2. Use a panoramic scale canvas. Divide it in to two with a masking-tape at the middle, so you got half a and half b. 

3. The exercise was 3 lessons long, 4 hours each lesson - once a week. 

Week 1 - Work on half a of the canvas, make a rough sketch and work with gesso, then proceed to work on the interior with oils. No palette limit, everything that work - goes! :)

Week 2 - Cover half a with a cloth or a newspaper, so you won't see it,  And  then paint a new interior painting on the second half of the canvas . So you are basically paint on half b without seeing half a from the last week.

Week 3 - Now it' goes tricky! You have to look on both half a and half b of the canvas and you have to co-join them both in to one whole painting!  

So look at that I've got....

Week 1 - half a

Week 2 - Both half a and a new half b

....and there are problems. The color balance between half a and half b is all wrong. 

Week 3 - Co-joined half a and half b - complete interior painting

...already a bit better!

 and now I need to reduce the dosage of "straight from the tube" colors, instead I have to mix more!

and I also still have lots of work on my perspective, this dancing table is just amusing.

I remind you the this course focuses on composition and also on intuitive and contemporary art.

Sleeping Shapes - new drawing + New WIPs

A new drawing in my large Fabriano Quadrato Sketchbook

In a remembrance of the old times! :)

This little sleepy guy came to me when I was at a little vacation this last weekend, I just took time to relax and to create something new but familiar.

Fabriano Quadrato artist's journal (23x23cm), Fabercastell pitt pastel pencils, rotring rapidographs, micron pens, derwent soft drawing pencils, derwent sepia line markers, gold and silver pens.
Reference - Sleep tight by BlackCynnamon 

Inspirational sketch that I did back in London in my little watercolor Moleskine.

I think you get the connection. :)

WIP1

WIP2

A new exercise at the art course

An interior painting on the other side of the canvas - without gesso, so we had to play with oils and gesso, and it was very interesting!

The original photo if our new studio work interior, our course already moved three (!) times during 4 months, This means 3 different studio interiors to get used to work in... I hope this was the last time we had to change a studio.

And I also got a huge wood board present from one of my friends, so now I can work at home on the large non stretched canvases that I started at the course! The Great Dane + Brassai and the  Mooses :))

Have a great week! 

Gali

New Painting WIP - 8 hours of work

The last two meetings at my new art course we had a new assignment - 

1 - Paint with oils on the other side of the canvas - without gesso. Size of 100x150 cm. 

2 - Use a photo by the great photographer - Brassai , I used this photo . We had 3 different to pick from.

3 - Use the colorization and/or the brush strokes inspire by Whistler - like this specific painting . 

First meeting - 4 hours

Second meeting - another 4 hours

A detail :)

I also started to use lots of different kinds of brushes with great variation of sizes and shapes. And I just love the effect of painting without gesso, it is amazing actually.

Have a great rest of the week!

Gali

New WIP

100x150cm, oils and lots of turpentine on canvas without gesso (other side of the canvas :)

Love it!

16 hours - character in interior assignment

A summary of the past four weeks of the art course = 16 hours

First meeting was to draw a model with different kinds of exercises. Fun but not worth to show here.

Second meeting assignment was to create with (oils on canvas) a room with earth colors only limited palette (almost without any reference, just general pictures of interiors).

 I don't like it at all but it was a start for the next session.

Oils on canvas 90x70cm

Third meeting - I started a new and bigger version of the previous assignment, 

this is a big one 1.5x1 meters

Fourth meeting - the final result, I added the characters and more colors.

The character is the model we drew/photographed on the first session, and of course I had to add a dog there on the carpet!

I love the size, the colors, the versatility and the dog!

Versatility was my weak point bit now I am working on it and improving it. I also try to step out of the fixation on the realism that I used to have.

This course opens and leads to so many interesting doors and paths for me as an artists and a teacher, and I am glad for that.

That's it for now!

Little therapy

Little art therapy, inspired by Alberto Giacometti. 

0.5 rapidograph and collage on 220gsm paper.

2 Months summary of a new art course

I started to study at a new art course two months ago. It's called "Developing work processes and studying the importance of composition". The teachers are contemporary Israeli artists Ran Tenenbaum and Guy Avital . They both are interesting and inspiring. 

I feel that I am breaking my own art boundaries and study a lot from each lesson. 

It's intensive and hard but fresh, inspiring and overwhelming at the same time. 

Here is a selection of studies and sketches I did for the last past two months. All from the same exercise. 

All the canvases are done in oils, some papers are acrylics and pencil/pastels.

Click to open and take a closer look!

This is the unfinished final study I did for this exercise. the painting itself  took 8 hours of work.
Oils on 50x70cm canvas.

They all connected by their composition to this painting of Edgar Dega, which was the key picture in this exercise.

"The Dance Class" 1873

As you may see I am experimenting and keep study with every new lesson. This course is different from that I am used to, but I feel that I needed that push in to the contemporary 21st century art. The realistic and illustrative art is great but in order to take a spot in contemporary art you have to experiment and go abstract most of the time, So I am testing and learning. 

Wish me luck! And I wish you luck as well! :) 

From 2014 in to 2015

Happy New 2015 Year!!!

Little Lucky, the hungarian vizsla, when she was 3 months old.
She belongs to my parents. This is her now - full grown up and almost 2 years old . 
Fabriano Quadrato Artist's Journal. 16x16 cm, Derwent pastel pencils.
2014

Ruled Notebook - 21x16.5 cm, pens (sepia, white, gold), collage, rapidographs and pastel pencils. 
Reference photo  by Les-piccolo
Started in 2014 and finished in 2015 :)