Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Follow your Ancestors, Dugave, 2011

Today I put the letters onto this mural I did one year ago, in 2011. Now it is finally finished...I will post the colored version with some making of photos soon...

Before Party After Party




Here is my new street painting I did in Trešnjevka these days, took me 2 days. It is part of a project entitled "Face Poster", where each of 10 artists gained one part of Zagreb for making a self-portrait which would stand in contrast to the usual "beautiful" faces on posters. It was organized by the Center of Culture Trešnjevka and MUU (thanks). 

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Women laughing naked in the bed

This painting took me just 3-4 hours to finish. The main point here is about composition and atmosphere. I wanted to get some 80's porn atmosphere. I really had pleasure painting it

36,9x61,2 cm
Oil on board
2012.

Gossip

I had my three good friends, Diana, Nikolina and Nikolina come to my place to pose for this painting. I told them to talk for 20 minutes and asked them to keep the intensity of the talk very high. By the time they where laughing and talking about their stuff I took pictures. Out of this photos came out this painting.

36,9x61,2 cm
Egg tempera and oil on canvas
2012.

A quarrel in the Botanical Garden

56x50 cm
Egg tempera and oil on cardboard
2012.

Contemporary Dance

80x40 cm
Egg tempera and oil on canvas
2012.

Decapitated Dancer


52x26cm (without frame)
Egg tempera and oil on board
2012.

Monika (Winter in Medika)

100x50cm
Egg tempera and oil on board
2012.

Leda

25x20 cm
Oil on canvas
2012.

4 Years of Highschool

I painted my sister every year of her 4 years of highschool at about the same time (around February). So here you can see her growth along with my own progress of style...

Josipa 4


32,2x27cm
Egg tempera and oil on canvas
2012.

Josipa 3


32,2x27cm
Egg tempera and oil on canvas
2011.

Wine & mineral water (Gemišt)


50x70cm
Oil on canvas
2012.

Girl with a black eye


31x23,5cm
Egg tempera and oil on canvas
2012.

Women with a mobile phone


30,5x24cm
Egg tempera and oil on canvas
2012.

Courbet 2K/ Fontana


25x20cm
Egg tempera and oil on canvas
2012.

Divine slap (Apolon and Koronida)


50x40 cm
Egg tempera and oil on canvas
2012.

Grandmother in the hospital

139x89,5cm
Oil on canvas
2012.

Self portrait with old women


70x50cm
Oil on canvas
2012

Monday, October 22, 2012

Solo exhibition invitation

I am having a solo exhibition in gallery "Kontura", Zagreb this Thursday (25.10.2012.). Here is the invitation... I haven't been posting on my blog or displaying my new paintings anywhere. So you will be able to see 20 brand new, never seen before paintings there.

Hope it turns alright....

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Canadian student newspaper


Here is an article written about me and the studio I am working in. I wanna thank Bernarda for her effort...Enjoy

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Some sketchbook insights





This is what I do besides of painting for my upcoming exhibition. You can see here a few sketches for the paintings I am making and other stuff that comes trough my mind...

Monday, July 23, 2012

Opening old boxes

While opening some old boxes I found a whole stack of oil painting tubes I have been putting to the side throughout  my study at the academy. We used to get about 1 tube from each color at the beginning, but I really didn't like the pigment, I always liked to paint more with "Winton & Newton" oil's more then with these "Classico". But anyway, I can get a good use of them because they are small tubes for travelling and stuff...

Another Pharmacy dean, Miljenko Malna



This is another portrait I had to do over a little black and white photography. This time I didn't really try to put him into color, I tought it is better this way.


Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Portrait of two brothers ("making of" and details included)

So I have been asked to do portraits of two boys and decided to paint it in more layers combining egg tempera and oil, like Van Eyck, Albrecht Durer, Hans Holbein, Otto Dix and others did. In each phase I have tried to be exact as possible. Up until these two portraits I have been painting a little less rational, but now I am trying to get myself used to this new but old technique of painting. 

First I used egg tempera to get the drawing done as exact as possible in black and white, with umber background (it really dries fast and gets done in one day). Next, I set the local tones of the hair, skin and clothes with oil and covered the background in a coat of Prussian blue to get a cold feel of the white I want to use as a background at the end. After it dried I used egg tempera again to put out the highlights and bring the texture of skin, hair and clothes back (egg tempera is really good for textures and drawing parts). After that comes the "irrational" part of painting in oil where I fix stuff and try to get the character of the model right.

 Egg tempera and Oil on board
20x30cm
2012.



Egg tempera and Oil on board
20x30cm
2012.

Saturday, May 26, 2012

Olive tree drawing

Here is another olive tree drawing I have been doing throughout the last week. It is meant to be a wedding gift for a dear friend of mine.

Pencil
cca 40x45cm
2012.

Sunday, March 4, 2012

Autoportrait avec cigarette sur Montmartre à Paris le jour de Noël avec un foulard noué en un nœud parisien


Self portrait with cigarette on Montmartre in Paris on Christmas with a scarf tied in a parisian knot... I think it says it all. Started the painting a while ago, now its finally finished. I've tried to make the portrait a little bit naive, like Christian Schad, which was harder then it seems, because it still had to look like me. But I think I got it right at the end, along with the christmas/tourism atmosphere on Montmartre.

50x40cm
Oil on canvas
2012.

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Winter painting

Haven't been posting nothing new for a while, but here is a "work in progress shot" surrounded with some of my new and old paintings.