Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Ship into the fire


Acrylics on 40x60cm canvas. Year 2001. Not available.
Similar to previous post but into an oppressive ambient, a ship is burning. This painting was started with a neutral mood, but while processing, it became dark and sorrowful. I thought that I had to cover it and make a happy painting over it, but at last I left it as it was. This painting was bought by a honorable and sharpie well known VIP!

I'm Back Again! "Samina"

Acrylics on framed canvas about 40x50 cm. Year 1992 (?). Not available.

I had some jobs to do the last days, so I was absent from painting. Now I'm back, but for a couple of weeks maybe the posts will be rare. 
This painting, one of my few abstracts, is really sad, although the colors look happy... At September, 26 of 2000, into the cold, salted waters of the Aegean sea, the greek ship "Samina" was sunk and 80 people were drawn... I was really shocked and this "happy" painting was the last Good Bye to the innocent people. Some of the lost were familiar to me. Among them, were kids and young mothers. All of them were victims of human stupidity...

Monday, September 13, 2010

"My Place" Cafe-Bar

55cm x 45cm, acrylics on framed canvas. Not available.

Another one painting, except the mural, to decorate the new "My Place" Cafe-Bar in Karlovassi. This one  I painted yesterday afternoon, inspired by a recent masterpiece.

Graffiti Mural finished!

We had been waiting for a month for the graffiti cans but nothing arrived. So the graffiti artist couldn't finish the mural I started. The "My Place" Cafe-Bar had to open in few days, so I completed the graffiti mural .... without color spays! This is my first graffiti, but it seems like painting, because it is a painting!

Acrylics, on a 4,00m x 2,00m (about) wall surface of the Cafe-Bar "My Place" in Karlovassi.
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