Out There...

...Outside the comfort zone.

Study for Portrait - Oil

Caroline Self Portrait

A small intermission off the big painting to do this 30X25cm Oil/Acrylic sketch.

Used Caroline's self portrait photograph, one of the more recent ones as my reference.

And thats that.

Ordinary Series - Oil on Canvas

After spending 2 years working exclusively with Digital, I am starting to paint on canvas again.

The ordinary series I did in Photoshop is the one I chose to do first.

Someone tagged my work in a online album called "Figurative Deconstruction" and I think the name nailed what I've always had in mind when I looked at the works of people like Bacon, Ghenie, Saville, Kanevsky, etc.. So Im gonna stick with it.

This is a Beast With Two Backs:

Work in Progress only because I am far from done.

Female In Love

This was the last one I finished for the January exhibition.With a few steps.

Self Portrait

It was supposed to be part of my first exhibition in January. But, just as my real face, I am tired and sick of looking at it. Who needs another ugly painter painting himself full of hate and pseudo-poetry. I think this is pompous and purposeless so my exhibition is going to be just about women.

Oil on Canvas - 150X120cm

  

Frontal

Study for Frontal Portrait.

61x45 cm - Oil on Canvas

   

Study for Portrait of Woman with Facial Tumor

Oil on Canvas 20X15 cm

A few progress images

   

Study for Portrait of Woman with External Tumor

Oil on Canvas - 20X15cm

Study of female head with tumor

Oil on Canvas - 20X15cm

True Beauty

Oil on Canvas - 24X20 inches

Study on style.

Safe from the Media

This is a study for a new series of portraits.

A series about socially retarded people. The incapacity to interact, the self consciousness, ugliness and deformity. The people that dont have photos of parties and thousands of friends to show. To me, they are the people I identify with and they are the people I find most interesting to portray and to sit and chat.

This is called Safe from the Media - Oil on Canvas Board - 31 X 25 cm

Oil - Marriage or True Love

Oil on Canvas - 61X91 cm

The largest canvas I've ever painted, An unavoidable aspect of love and marriage. The brain receptors for pain and pleasure are next door neighbours.

Michigan

Caroline Silent - Oil on Canvas - 39 X 29 cm

Tied Up Intro

Oil on Canvas - A study of leather bands  and cover for the tied up series

Almodovar

Caroline for the Tied Up Series.

The upper image is the final painting detail and below two stages of the progress.

Oil on Canvas.

SmallVille

A small & rough artisan Oil on Canvas paper - Using a polaroid I took of Caroline as reference. Done at work over lunchtime.

here is the original photo on my flickr page - http://www.flickr.com/photos/marioucci/3625238125/

Caballero

Oil on Canvas, Self Portrait.

Wonderland

Oil on Canvas, Self Portrait.