Third and final piece - at least for now - of the vintage skiing pinups set.
This one is on Cortina, the previous two were on Cervinia and Canazei,
three of my favorite ski resorts in the Italian Alps.
martedì 4 settembre 2012
giovedì 16 agosto 2012
sabato 21 luglio 2012
sabato 7 luglio 2012
sabato 2 giugno 2012
giovedì 17 maggio 2012
mercoledì 2 maggio 2012
mercoledì 11 aprile 2012
domenica 19 febbraio 2012
Can vectors help to better draw a vintage bra?
Here's a little tutorial about how much is useful considering the use of vector techniques even while you're painting. My latest painting had to have a retro feel, also the lingerie of the model was typically vintage, with large bra cups decorated by concentric stitching. To better design the structure of the bra, I thought of using vectors. Here are steps of the process:
Crop the area you are interested in pencil drawing.
Import it in your vectorial application. I use Freehand but I think that anything can be done in Illustrator as well.
Place it in the background layer, to view it as through a veil.
Draw with the circle tool the two wider ellipse of the bra cups.
Then trace the upper smallest ones.
Select the two ellipses of the same cup, the largest and the smallest.
Do a fusion between them.
Select the two ellipses of the other cup.
Second fusion.
Select the first fusion and adjust the proper number of steps.
The same for the second one.
Please notice that this feature allows you to adjust the initial arrangement, by selecting the upper smallest ellipse within each fusion and moving it as you like.
Once you're satisfied, remove the pencil draw.
Then exports the two fusions as an EPS file. The size is already exact, just open the EPS file with Photoshop at the same resolution of your painting and you will get lines on a transparent background, ready to be applied to a new layer of your painting.
In this case, there is need to delete lines in the orange area, and adjust them manually with a fine brush in the yellow area.
And this is the result. What I like about these synergies between applications is that the process is also useful even if you're painting with traditional techniques. For many years I have worked with traditional media and, when the computer appeared, doing commercial work, I often had many benefits from this mix of techniques to get the results I was looking for.
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martedì 14 febbraio 2012
"Bombs Away" painting
It's my pleasure to share a painting I have done for the upcoming
"Wings of Angels" Art Book of the amazing photographer Michael Malak.
I loved very much this project and got so much fun working on this piece,
to look at pinup and aircraft close ups below, just scroll down this page.
Photo Inspiration: Michael Malak
Model: Sarah Barton
"Bombs Away" pinup close ups
Click here to see a tutorial showing how vector techniques
can help to better render a vintage bra like this one.
If interested, check it out. Hope you dig it.
domenica 29 gennaio 2012
"Glamour Wars" limited edition
This is a co-production with Paul Grisar of Pinupexpo:
hand enhanced canvas prints 132x100 cm - 5 prints and 2 artist's proofs.
Prints are are available in exclusive at Piunpexpo
After the printing process on canvas, I painted with acrylic colors
the white flowers in foreground, the waiter and the background.
Look at the enhanced print here http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=349819031711847&set=t.1385093836&type=3&theater
The original photo is © 1978 Joe Shere / mptvimages.com
"Marilyn again" limited edition
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"Erotic Fantasy Art Vol. 2" Art Book
Don't miss this just released Art Book "Erotic Fantasy Art Vol. 2"
It features three of my works and the "Dark Queen" painting as front cover.
It features three of my works and the "Dark Queen" painting as front cover.
Thanks to Ilex Press and Paul Peart Smith for including my works
in this amazing collection!
domenica 4 dicembre 2011
domenica 20 novembre 2011
"Chanel Bon Bon" interactive step by step painting process
Here is a complete step by step painting process
of the "Chanel Bon Bon" painting.
I have done it since I'm often asked for tutorials or descriptions
about my painting technique.
It’s an interactive Flash movie, once started by clicking on the cover,
the movie goes on by itself but at any time you can stop and restart it,
go on forward or backward step after step as fast as you click quickly.
Also this is a small version of the movie, if interested,
don't miss the wide version: 1280x800 pixels here:
mercoledì 12 ottobre 2011
lunedì 10 ottobre 2011
Goodbye, Steve!
Although it was expected, Steve Jobs death has saddened me so much
to stop the work I was doing to dedicate a tribute to the father of the Mac.
Here are a few actual size details. See the whole work by clicking the title.
Goodbye, Steve! Thank you for thinking different.
martedì 20 settembre 2011
domenica 18 settembre 2011
Interview (click here)
Khuan Tru, a friend artist, was kind enough to publish
an interview on my work at his website... check out it!
giovedì 16 giugno 2011
lunedì 23 maggio 2011
mercoledì 18 maggio 2011
venerdì 29 aprile 2011
"Dig it?" close ups
The title "Dig it?" here means something like "What you're looking at?" or "Would you like a chair?". The girl is asking why you are so much interested in her back.
So cute, so naive... but actually she knows what magnetized your eyes.
sabato 19 marzo 2011
giovedì 17 marzo 2011
"Surprise!" close up
This painting will be available as Easter tube, in three versions, soon at PTE.
"Springtime Bunny" close up
This painting will be available as Easter tube, in two versions, soon at PTE.
"Touches Of Red" close up
I'm preparing a step painting process on this painting, hope to post it soon.
martedì 1 marzo 2011
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