Issue No.22 - International Edition Polo De’Marco Magazine - International Edition | Page 77

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His preferred method is oil painting
because it allows me to work with multiple
layers and achieve the transparency effect
I desire,” the artist says. “It also provides
contrast and vibrancy of colors that would
be difficult to achieve with any other
technique. Oil also dries a lot slower, so
this gives me time to work on details.”
“Painting is a way to say everything I want,
everything that fascinates and inspires me
in one single image, “continues the artist.
“I have an idea of a particular subject, then
comes a blurred image on my mind that I
convert into a quick sketch to capture how
I want it to be, this is the most creative
part, then when it is time to paint, that
turns out to be a sequence of technical
steps that end in a finished canvas. It is a
laborious process with a lot of attention to
detail, expression and texture.”