International artist. He seems to be based in italy and thus his website is in italian. I do not read italian. Parts of his site are in english, though. Statement says he is trying to seek balance between the real and hte imagined, and discuss the relationship between man and nature.
Pencil and oil on canvas. Technical marks appear to be very pencil, with the color areas done in oil. Also seems to do large areas of toning in wash.
Website worth visiting due to a high number of detail shots with each painting. Undeterred by strange media: This is pencil and oil + resins, enamels, and bitumen. Bitumen is an extremely interesting choice of substance.-- asphalt. Bituman has a history of use in ancient cultures as well.
Casually breaking all the rules about white space, but that directly calls forward the reference to anatomical textbook. also drippy oil paint section to mirror that tree-growth. No idea how this artist avoids smudging
Does some with animals, often with these tree-limbs sticking out of them. All images are on a white backgruond that is slightly toned to resemble old vellum or pages from old manuscripts.
Some of the animals will sometimes be interacting with one another, if there are two, but often not; the two horses is called "Cannibal Horses".
Very clearly inspired by classical and renn art, which is not surprising at all for an italian artist; bu tthe anotomical drawings are the kind which first emerged in those times, and the stained canvas and exclusive use of earth tones
Occasionally these landscapes created in the anatomical diagrams will host other small animals, like birds, who interact.
DETAILS, which lets us see some of the drawing amongst the paint. Paint seems to be washy in most places. drawing is sometimes nice and clear despite it's canvas support, but othertimes it has that bumpy quality that comes from being done on a canvas. and there is smudges, you can just barely see them in the larger comps.
I would love to know if there's a preservation coat when this artist finishes to make sure that things don't smudge further then they want.
Textures which presumably come from some of the non-paint this artist uses, like the resins and such. becomes almost waxy. in some paintings actual leaves are also affixed to the canvas. On the right, oil paint bloom used to good effect.
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