Me and my “Self Portrait II” at the annual autumn painting exhibition at The National Art Museum in Timisoara, Romania. Take a look at more of my paintings (here) and tell me what you think! Would you enjoy owning one?
You may remember a while ago when I mentioned (here) about my painting being accepted for [...]

Most of the visual images we see today are a result of past experiences. We often don’t realize that the things we see may not be that unique or new. Sure there’s appropriation in art, which makes a particular statement, but in fashion photography the inspiration often goes back to art (painting) history, only to [...]

When thinking of creating something, the first step is to make sketches, right? Well, that’s a process we painting students (generally; I specifically at the Art University in Timisoara, Romania)  have to follow too. For this semester’s drawing class, we had to study, sketch, compose, interpret and draw this still life composed of dynamic elements [...]

The pictures in this post represent the process of creating a theoretically correct painting. The theme was “The Architecture of Nature.Nature’s Architecture“, the first picture represents my initial abstract composition sketch. Then, we had to find a logical and mathematically correct proportion between elements of the composition (picture 3 and 4). Finally, we had to [...]

Left: fashion editorial in Preen magazine, latest issue; right: Jan van Goyen paintings.
When I first saw those photographs from the magazine, I instantly thought of dutch painting, particularly those famous Dutch landscapes of the late 16th, 17th century. “Typically, a Dutch painter of the 17th century (also known as the Dutch [...]

I created a design for the Elle’s Thakoon - “Yours By Design” contest and this is it! I used 3 actual paintings of mine, two of them are watercolors and one is an oil painting, mostly because I always wanted to see my paintings printed on clothes. If I could afford to print them [...]