Archive For The “Personal Pieces” Category

My first artwork made with the aid of AI tools (midjourney). I used midjourney for inspiration and base design, then imported the raw image in photoshop and everything you see has been overpainted directly by me over the base. While I liked the “alphonse mucha” style of the midjourney piece, I wanted to keep my…

This image popped up in my head when I was reflecting about the horrors of war and the actual international political situation. Don’t ask me what each thing means, you can interpret everything yourself with your sensibility about the situation, different people will see different things and that’s the way it should be.

My personal tribute to my favorite movie: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (Il Buono, Il Brutto e il Cattivo in italian), of SERGIO LEONE. Starring: Clint Eastwood as the Good (or Blondie) Lee Van Cleef as the Bad (Angel Eye, Sentenza in italian, translated Sentence, a much better name for the character) Eli…

A personal piece we used for our son Leo baptism invitations. Here he is with one of our kittens called Dalia. I loved creating this piece because, as with all personal pieces I do, I could use my own personal style without being constrained by what’s best for the market/client tastes. I took some inspirations…

Shroud your heaven, Zeus, With cloudy vapours, And do as you will, like the boy That beheads thistles, With oak-trees and mountain-tops; You must my Earth Now abandon to me, And my hut, which you did not build, And my hearth, Whose glow You begrudge me.I know of nothing poorer Under the sun, than you,…

This is a very personal piece. I wanted to do a painting of my cats for my wife, and I started with a very graphic idea (stylized), but… While I was painting my cats, I got lost in their details. I know them too well and so I started to make them more realistic, and…