HAIKU INTENTIONS

Ili Eve "The autumn"

Ili Eve "The moon"

 These are some of the paintings from my exhibition that I made in November. All of the seventeen paintings are the same size, 120 x 40 cm.

  Painting and my fascination with haiku poetry merged paths in this exhibition, using the haiku form as an inspiration, without the resulting painting turning into illustration of the poetry.
  Haiku is the shortest poetic form, it considers a short moment in time, based on direct observation of a natural phenomenon in close distance.
  The nature is viewed in it's fragmental quality.
 In haiku poetry there are no metaphors, and the author often stays hidden. He is "the hand that points to the sun".

Ili Eve "Birches" - Diptych

                                                                                 

Ili Eve - "After the rain"

Ili Eve - "Beyond"

  

Ili Eve - "Sunset"

 

Ili Eve - "Crescent moon"

Ili Eve - "Pear tree"

Ili Eve "Jonathan apple"

The Spring

What will emerge from that pupae?

Ili Eve   "Spring"

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

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

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

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

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.

Silvia

Joro

DoB

 Vesko

Prof . Stanislav Pamukchiev

The little Monika

Jani in da club

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