kissevestudio

2012/05/01

The Feast

This is a family lunch on the occasion on some occasion. Regretably, family celebrations often turn into a big excessive eating . The consumerist spirit of modern society forces the abundance of food and overeating as a measure of enjoyment.

This is my only painting done in this pointillist manner, which came naturally, and as a result of my search for the most direct method to paint what i have envisioned .The memory of my Family's feasts lingered as a hazy picture in my mind. The grotesquerie in teh painting reveals the personal relation with the subject and my commentary on the personalityof the portrayed. I leave it to the viewer to come up with his own stories about this family's sunday lunch meetings.

Ili Eve, "The Feast", 2011, acrylic on canvas

2012/04/30

Trinity

Some time ago I found an old b&w photo of my grandmother, holding the hands of two children - my mother and her sister. They were all standing in an endless winter field. That scene provoked me to do the painting, althought the figures I painted look more like aliens than normal people. I used high key -low color saturation to convey the sense of emptiness and bleak coldness.

Ili Eve "Trinity" 2010 acrylic on board

2012/04/29

Fan Art of Diablo 3 Barbarian

Hey guys. Recently I made a fanart piece for an art contest ran by Blizzard, a video game company, where you had to portray a protagonist from their upcoming ARPG Diablo 3 (great games, check them out if you haven't already) I wanted to do some kind of fan art tribute to my favorite PC games for some time, and now seemed like the right moment.
I'm aware that my art style and "technique" isn't exactly what the gaming industry would consider to be prize winning material, not to mention that some of the guys that do fantasy and sci-fi stuff for a living are waaaay out of my league. What I'm trying to say here is that I did it for my own personal amusement.

Since the deadline was looming in, I had only three days to work on it, so I couldn't put all the little details and attain the polish that I wished, but that can be done later, so no worries on that front. Considering I never actually painted armor and stuff like that before, it turned out ok-ish in my opinion, or at least bearable.

When I get my preliminary drawings scanned, I'll go trough my thought process behind creating this work and talk in detail about it. I hope you like this (almost) finished piece!

I present you the female Barbarian.

Barbarian

2012/04/27

Our Art Shop

We are happy to announce that our new shop for art, art prints and paintings opened on etsy.com here is a link: http://www.etsy.com/shop/KissEveArt

2012/04/19

Portraits

Portraits

Those are some portraits I've made. Most are done from the model in a couple of 6-8 hour sessions. My biggest influences in this genre would be Diego Velasquez and Frans Hals. Well, not that my works look like anything done by those great masters, I'd say they've influenced mostly what I think defines a good portrait and painting in general, and that's far more important than any techniques or secret methods, in my book.
So, here they are. Click on any of the images to see it in higher resolution.