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

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....

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

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...

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.

Summer painting

Painting in my studio in Zagreb, Medika...

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.

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.

A little pencil drawing

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.

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.

Olive trees from Drage

Here are some old olive live tree sketches I made back in 2009.

Self portrait with bycicle

Oil on canvas
50x40cm
2011.

The Great Diplomatic Painting

The painting depicts the iniside view of The Croatian National theatre (Hrvatsko narodno kazalište) with over 500 portraits of people i know. Mostly I have been concetrating on people from The Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, that I have been studying on. So this is a kind of "goodbye painting" for the 5 years I have spent on this institution.

A better image of the whole painting will be available as soon as possible :)

"Diplomatic work"
187,5 x 250 cm
Oil on canvas
2010.-2011.

The Great Diplomatic Work (making of)

Here are some images of the process of the making of my diplomatic painting which I have been doing for a year by now. You can view the whole "making of" in the documentary movie made by Luka Hrgović, which is also his own diplomatic work. Here it is:

[1:25:30] Luka Alexander Hrgović:

Portrait of Prof. dr. Antun Vrgoč (1881.-1949.)

A portrait of the first dean of the University of Pharmacy in Zagreb which I was commissoned to do. It was painted from a little black and white photo the only one taken of this great man.

85x55 cm
Oil on canvas
2011.

Sketch of another former Pharmacy Dean

This is from a really old black and white photo. Have to make the same thing now in color...we'll see...

Portrait of dr. Marijan Pribanic

This is a commison I made for the college of Pharmacy. This is the former dean of their University.

Illusion of Hrelic

People buying...


The interesting thing about this painting is that it was overpainted the very next day it was done. The only parts that where painted over was the figure and two little bottles of rum at the bottom. So it is obvious that the old man himself did it. I had to wash his paint away and paint him again, but this time with sun glasses and a mustache so it would maybe stop him from recognizing himself and being ashamed (or whatever the reason was he overpainted it).

I painted the pillars of the underpass under which people usually walk their way to the sunday fair of Hrelic. I painted three randomly chosen people that are usually selling right by the side of the colummns. So its a kind of respect given to people selling on the fair. And at the same time a monumet given to Hrelic.

While working there I was in the company of Lonac, a fellow artist, who also did one column (he will do the second as well as I will do the fourth when we get the permission). Our paintings are actually part of a bigger iniciative by the association of "Kontraakcija", who are the founders of the project "Muzej Kvarta"which is working on different cultural activities around New Zagreb.

The paintings are painted in acrylic, and are cca 220cm x 250cm large

Here is a link to Lonac's page... http://lonac.blogspot.com/

And a link to the homepage of Kontraakcija for more information http://www.kontraakcija.hr/

Trees form Hlebine

Here are some cca A4 drawings of some trees I did in the the garden of Krsto Hegedušić (one of the founders of Croatian Naive Art). I drew them in Hlebine while I was on a colony of Naive artists which celebrated his 100th birthday.