California Dreaming New Painting

"California Dreaming"
110x80 cm, oil on canvas, 
April-June 2016 by Gali Lutski

A step by step GIF of the work:

El Greco Tribute - The View of Toledo

61x73cm, oil on canvas, acrylic imprimatura, 3-4.2016 by Gali Lutski

Information on the original El Greco - The View of Toledo

Work in Progress

a little sketch on paper to place everything right

already on canvas, primed with burnt umber acrylic imprimatura

Of Hummingbirds and Goals

A Hummingbird, 50x50 cm, acrylics on canvas, completed 11/3/16

General inspiration stock photo, by kayaksailor

It's a present for my dear friend who needed an encouragement and a bunch of good healing energy. She loves humming birds and I just had to paint her one, this one exactly!

Some personal thoughts following this work...
It was a bit of surreal to paint this work right now because it somehow represents almost everything in art that I try to avoid right now - simple, illustrative, kitsch, acrylics.
But!
It has to be a quick, actually very quick work, and I wanted it to be special, just for my friend.
So I made the imprimatur at first with the purples and the light blues that my friend loves and I wanted to be unique with the colors of the bird and the flower.
The painting of the bird and the flower were done without any sketches, just the acrylics right on the canvas. It took no more that two hours to complete.
I know that I could make tons of works like this one and sell it cheap and quick at any art fair, but this one is special and I do not want to make tons of the same, it's just boring to copy one work thousands of times!
On one hand, I do not wish to stay at the comfort zone of cute and kitsch artworks that sells good, I try my best to keep developing and make my own real art.
But on the other hand, when it comes to special presents for dear friends and family, I really want just to make them happy and see a huge smile on their faces when they receive an art present from me.

For example there is a wood box present I've painted with oils for my Dad, it features my parents Hungarian Vizsla Lucky!

Or a wood box I've painted with oils for my Grandma's 89th birthday!

I will keep making cute, kitsch and illustrative art only as presents for my closest friends and family.

See ya with real art real soon!

Gali 

October 15 to February 16

From October 15 to February 16

There are some works of mine from the last four months. In no particular order.

If you want more information on any of these works you can find it on The Art by Gali Lutski on Facebook and Gali Lutski on DeviantArt - Olvium

Please scroll all the way down to read more!

I have neglected my blog for several months but I decided not to give up on it, this blog is a kind of a personal internet sketchbook for me and therefore is very important for me. For the past six months I am in a journey to be a full time artist, here are the works from the last four months. Some of them I love but the most of them I don't. 

Right now I am in a process of discovering the true artist in me and this is a long and an exhausting work. For the past six months I try to avoid the illustrative style, the kitsch and the realistic beauty.   I focus on finding the true contemporary traditional art in me and for me. I have lots of homework from my art tutors and it motivates me a lot to keep on the search for the true artist inside myself. I know that I have learned a lot for the past six and a half years but I have to say that I feel that in the last year and a half I just had the true "kick in the ass" both in good and bad sense. 

Realism, surrealism and illustration are simply  not enough and I am in a huge struggle between the comfort zone and the unknown "other" zone. 

From this day I will update here some of my sketches and studies, there will be less finished\complete works. 

See ya,

Gali