Leszek Piotrowski Lesstro
Land scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
our readers something about the evolution of your style? In particular, would you shed light on your usual process and set up?
I am 32 years old and at this stage of my career it is difficult for me to determine the evolution of my style. I started with painting female nudes. With the passage of time I found, that I feel very good by creating big and very big scale paintings – usually historical genre scenes. However it is not a rule: I like very much painting commissioned portraits, landscapes, seascapes, horses. Generally speaking I enjoy painting a lot. And I am searching for beauty in my painting objects. Women are my favorite painting objects. I try to show their beauty and endless mystery by means of chiaroscuro, where light always wins, just like good overcomes evil.
Here I can say, that the basing element of my usual process – incentive which makes me paint is light. Deep light and shadow game are indispensable for me to create good painting.
Regarding technical questions: my canvas are hand-made. I use raw linen. After stretching it on the loom, the surface is lubricated with rabbit glue. When it is dry it needs to be rubbed until it is completely smooth. Then I apply with a brush a layer of proper prime coat, which is solvent mixture of glue, champagne chalk and linen-seed oil. The process of drying canvas takes up to two months. I paint with the technic of Old Masters, it means, that at first I make underpainting in the form of painting sketch and then I apply many coats of paints in order to get deep color effect.