Painting 'Kocie Gory' (Cats Mountains)

painting 'Kocie Gory' (Cats Mountains) - acrylics on prepared mdf board

size 61 x 91 cm

finished: sat 14 December 2013

 

                                                                 original poster                                                       me at work

finished painting

This painting is a copy, liberally reproduced, of a polish poster by Ryszard Kaja, discovered by chance as a postcard in an old bookshop in Wroclaw, Poland, last October.

From the postcard led by inquiring to the bookseller if I could find a poster of the same image. 

 I have always been attracted by Polish, Eastern European and Russian graphic and poster design and what prompt me to go as further as reproducing in painting format one of them was perhaps the random chance of the event which prompt me to discover this particular poster, together with my partner, a shop, right in town,specializing in the sale of reproduction of Polish Posters, either of movies, plays or music related purposes.

What is more is that I made the image more personal by painting the cat on the left in black and white by closely resembling my own pet Charlie. 

Since I decided to use acrylic as my main medium I took another opportunity to explore and test some brands I have never used before.

music sketches

These four sketches were drawn during a performance of The Amphion Consort at the National Portrait Gallery, performing music from the British Renaissance Era. I had a bit of a problem: the music was so overwhelming and touching that I could scarcely set these emotions into paper! 

However, I managed to capt their captivating body and facial expressions in just four drawing. I wish I was less involved with the music. How could ?