My own style has arrived to a point!

                                               FINALLY! The group of seven!
Since i've got into art, especially into painting, i've always asked my mother if in Canada there was any important artist, and she always talked to me about The Group of Seven, which i already talked about in my blog. They pratically tranformed my way of looking the landscapes, and especially i can see now the clouds and the trees in a different way (which now i brought to another level of painting! check out for coming soon new paintings).
In the Group of Seven i can feel something really different from the classical painters of landscapes, i can see something more than just a painting: they make me feel like the nature has an own personality, the trees and the clouds have a soul, the same as the rocks and every little detail. They represent the "True North strong and free" of the Canadian national anthem, the soul, the spirit of this land, that will never get me or the Canadians bored.

                                           "Spirits of the North" 24x32 oil on canvas sheet 2010
                                               (one of the exercise painting)

                                          "last summer sun on the lake" 24x32 oil on canvas 2011
                                          

                                     
                                          A.J.Casson "White pine" 1957

                                    Franklin Carmichael,  (i don't know the title yet, sorry)

"Waves": another step closer to surrealism...

It's part of my nature to introduce something weird or not from our realistic view in a painting or into a drawing, but always with "fear", like if i don't want to fall into the depths of surrealism, just picking something and come back, like a kid with a cake: pick a bit and then run! It's part of my instinct, so i follow it.
"Waves" is the step closer to surrealism and the step closer to being better on shadowing. here i first learned how to achive new colors and new shadows, but more important, i begun to get involved with the phylosophic meaning of paintings; something is hiding under those waves! The power of our mind will always be hidden under our mask that we always bring, a different mask for each different moment.

Inspiration number Two: Japanese prints

                                           Hawase Kasui, Asano River

                                                      Hawase Kasui, Korakuen park

Why the sign HPL?

A question that every person that i know, curious on my works, is "what does HPL mean?". Well it's simple and hard to tell: H.P.L stands for H.P.Lovecraft's acronim, who gaved me lots of inspirations, but it's not like if i'd like to be him, i'm a huge fan of him of course, but that's not the idea. I wanted to have, first of all, a nice and short readable sign, not my full name, not even only my name alone or my last name or even only my nicknam, wich i really don't have! I wanted to have something unusual, something new, so when i was in 9th grade at school, i made a sign for a "stupid" comic strip about Cthulhu (a Lovecraftian creature made comic and humoristic) so i tried with H.P.L, and in the days, weeks, months and years to come, i didn't see that i had made me an own, different and unusual sign for my paintings. I will never and never going to change my sign, already tried to, but it's hard to get use to it! But that's another story...
H.P.L for me stands for a need to escape from reality to the dream world, one of Lovecraft's main theme, the dream world.

The Exercise period

                                          "The spirits of the north" oil on canvas grain paper 24x32 cm

                                    "Dremscapes from far away" oil on canvas grain paper 24x32 cm

                                  "A banal landscape in the fog" oil on canvas grain paper 24x32 cm


These paintings were made during a what I call "exercise period", a period when i had to choose or elaborate an own style. It follows the "impressionist period".

"Ancient memories"

This was made about in 2009, so it was one of my first (the third i think, or maybe the second).
In this i already tried to get an own identity and i tried to get better in making shadows and lights.

Inspiration number one: Lawren Harris, the group of seven

One of my most important influences is the group of seven, a group of seven canadian artists (at the beginning) who thought to get Canada an own artistic identity, wich at that time had only painters and styles brought from europe, such as the romantic landscape style from Great Britain. Here is the link from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_of_Seven_(artists)