Techniques used
The term “figurative painting” refers to artwork derived from real object sources and are therefore, by definition, representational. The main techniques used by the artist to create artworks are: watercolour, oil painting, fresco and trompe l'œil. The artist also uses a mix of techniques. The foundation, for every technique, is the preparatory sketch that includes the study of the composition, proportion and perspective to then proceed with colour. Through figurative art the artist better expresses his/her concept of aesthetics and the feelings created by what he/she observes and tries to transmit all of this to the viewer, through the creation of artwork. The various pieces may be viewed at the artist's workshop where they are also on sale. An appointment is required.
Unlike other types of paintings the watercolour is a painting technique that is assumed to be quite easy.
Oil painting, the most important and widely diffused technique for the creation of paintings, used ever since ancient times, is essentially based on the process of using oil in order to mix the finely grounded pigments (mineral, animal and organic pigments)
The fresco technique consists in painting on the wet plaster of walls: the colour is chemically incorporated and preserved within the wall for an unlimited time.
The word trompe l'œil derives from the French word “tromper”, to deceive, and “œil”, eye and it is a naturalistic painting technique, based on the use of light and shade effects and perspective, that reproduces, in the paintings, reality in such a way that it creates in the viewer's eye that optical illusion of reality.
