Decorative Compositions

Next week I will be participating in a national contest hold by the popular art school from my city and I decided to share my artworks that will go in . All of them focus on the decorative theme , lots of colors, but each representing them in a different way. For example, the first one is called "Porcelain"(pastels on paper), because it is mainly inspired from the traditionally decorated pots on which I also added some personal details such as small flowers and circles of colors or light.


The second one is called "Break"(Pastels on paper) , because it shows some colorful horizontal lines, and the whole composition is broken in three parts by three unsymmetrical spots colored in the same style . I admit this is an interesting exercise to analyze the optic illusions that the colors can create and to make a nice contrast by putting strong colors next to soft ones or warm colors next to cold ones.
The last one is a decorative portrait (pastel on paper), it is nothing special, just an exercise to fit the other painting. Anyway, these are by far my favorite artworks , these are just some things I have done at school and created with the purpose of sending them to this contest.












PS. I learned my lesson from last years. I will never sent my best paintings again to a contest like this because they wont give them back to me , even if I asked this from the beginning, because ... guess what ? they keep them in the storage room (yeah right, they keep them to give them as present whenever they don't have money or anything else to offer,or to take the frame when another contest comes up....Totally disgusting !!!) but ..oh yeah , this is the society we live in and it seems we have to endure because how hard I try, nobody seems to take me into consideration or even listen !

New Portrait

I remember that a month ago I was browsing a magazine in search of inspiration and I found an interesting commercial. It showed the face of a beautiful girl holding a necklace with flowers, and I found it suitable for my mood and my inner desire for spring. I decided to draw a sketch and immortalize my ideas on paper. Anyway, that was just the starting point of the whole composition. I drew the face lines softly as I saw in that magazine but I decided to make it more personal. As I have an obsession with green eyes, maybe because I, myself have bright green eyes, I happen to like them at other people too, haha, so I draw some big green eyes and applied a strong make up , extremely long eye lashes, dark shadow which gives the impression of a perfect shape. I wanted to create something beautiful, as I see it not what other people want us to believe.

Furthermore, I wanted to bring everything to life by adding a bit of color. And what comes next? Red, of course, an immortal color, always fashionable, chic, feminine, mysterious. Everything that i like , no wonder is my favorite color . Red lips look so appealing , and will always be the superlative of everything that is feminine and beautiful so this detail cant be missed. Red will also be found at the Victorian style hat she is wearing combined with other shades of pink and orange.
But, apart from all these elements I wanted to picture my mood from that particular day : waiting and begging for the spring to come and the rain to stop. So the girl has a special facial expression, she is asking something, as I was. Holding thin flowers in her hands, she shows them to a powerful somebody to who she is praying. Will her prayer be listened? Let`s wait and see ...
I know that the quality of the picture is not very good but I hope the drawing is visible enough. This is only a sketch and i want to continue it ...someday when I will be in the right mood .

More Sketches

I just wanted to share some drawings I made. Some are inspired from different magazines and others are my personal designs. They are not perfect, I know, I just meant to work more on the body not on the actual design. I never really had fashion design classes but it was always a passion of mine so I need practice. By the way , any criticism is welcome !
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I had some problems lately with my pc and I couldn't sign in , but I hope now everything is solved . So I bring you a sketch I made some time ago . I remember I inspired myself from a magazine article , and this picture attracted me especially because of its sophistication .
Enjoy !