Pino

A regular customer came into my job today with some art books. I told him about what I was studying last week and he got really excited and brought me these books to look at. His favorite, and the one he wanted to talk about the most, was Pino. Pino is from Italy, and he was born in 1939. Sadly, he passed away last year. Anyway, the title of his book is "Contemporary Realism," in which he showcases beautiful oil paintings. They mostly feature women, but his touch is unique. He uses fast strokes, and his work has an impressionist feel. He puts the most detail usually within the face of the subject, and the backgrounds tend to be less detailed, and "carelessly" stroked with paint, leaving the evidence of the brush behind. I've never really been drawn to painting that much (pun intended), but looking at Pino's work makes me want to invest in some oil paints. Honestly, I don't even think I've ever seen oil paints.

I just looked this book up on Amazon, and it costs around $250. Wow. His paintings are really gorgeous, though. I'm really glad talking about art with a random customer brought me Pino.

The Last Dance
www.pino-artist.com

Waiting
www.pino-artist.com

Anne Boyles

Smoking

Kids

Engaged

I stumbled upon Anne Boyles today. She's a young artist in Boise, Idaho, and I'm about 85% positive I went to high school with her.  But anyway, she's 23 and she studied in New York for awhile, but now she's back and she's been doing these awesome photorealistic paintings. Her work can be found on anneboyles.com and all of the images are pulled from that website. 

Walkens Welcome

Marilyn Monroe

I've always been envious of those who are skilled with a brush, and I've also had a fascination with photorealism. What I love about Anne's work is that I'm really not convinced they are paintings just by looking at the images of them, because they seriously look like photographs. I'd like to see them in real life! The one of the girl smoking really intrigues me. She has a nice touch with a paintbrush.