Dull seascape

Framed canvas 40x50cm. Acrylics. Not available.

I made my last painting exhibition about five years ago. This painting was the easiest to make. Simple theme, almost without colors. It took me about 15 minutes to finish it. Most visitors enjoyed it more than other, difficult for me to make paintings. Sometimes complexity is overvalued. This simple painting is the proof.

Getting pretty...

Acrylics on canvas frame 40x55cm - Not available.

I have not included most of the upper head (nor the brain) of this lady. I need taller surfaces. 

I'm sorry for the sarcasm... 

Sometimes I can't recognize myself. Sometimes all my thoughts turn to gray. My paintings turn to mud. The life seems so sad and unhappy... Anyway, I take it as illness, a few days fever... But some other times I think that maybe this fever is not so bad as it seems... Maybe it came for me, to tell me that bad times are a respectable part of my life, an equal part to joy, the black and the white pieces of the yin-yang circle of my life. These days the black part of me is stronger. I think that I have to let it free for a while...

The movie

Acrylics on paper 25x30 cm. 1997. Availability: Not yet.

This is a group of actors just before a take of cinematic scene. Very fast work without corrections using thin colors (watercolor technique) without white. I love this silly drawing and I don't know the reason. From the day I made it, is over my fireplace and I can't replace it. Completely different people are joined for one purpose: Maybe this is the key to understand my preference. I use to work alone... Is there any psychiatrist around?

View from my window

Acrylics. Canvas on paperboard 30x40cm. Not available.

This was the view outside of my window 10 years ago. Today the look is completely different. No tree, no hen-coop (the small building at the center) no houses, no forest. Instead all of them there are nice lodgings, but not so lovely to paint them. The curse in our life is this: People and things important for us, just pass... But we still have the skill to recover: Just walking. And when memories bring tears to our eyes, we keep looking forward and keep walking (like the commercial). Constantly walking and we don't look back (like the 80's song).

The current owner of this painting is a neighbor. Naturally.

Lovers

Acrylics on canvas paperboard 30x40cm. Availability unknown.

Another one old painting about basic instinct. Everything about primitive passion is always seductive to everyone. The opposite is simply a disease according to how mother nature works. Is there any missing color? Red maybe?

30 years before

I started painting about 35 years ago, when I was 17. I found two photos of these (almost forgotten) happy years of youth. The first photo was taken at 1981. I was serving in the navy. Here, on my old's house roof I was proud for my brand new seascape.

The second one was taken at 1985 (4 years later). The photo was taken from a reporter (during my summer painting exhibition) to be published by the Greek weekly "Domino".

Today I'm not so handsome but I paint better than 30 years before. It's fair!

The white land

Acrylics on 30x40cm canvas on paperboard. 10 years ago. I'm not sure of availability. Inspired from a stamp-size reference photo on a magazine.

Today I didn't paint. I dedicated my afternoon to improve the look of this blog. I hope you like the result. Today the smell of color replaced by the smell of ...wood!

I still post my older work. I haven't forget my earlier promise to post (later) my present work here!