i won!

not much, but i did win the competition!!!
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/public/competitions/article2461554.ece

Season's Greetings

To my many many many readers:
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

octopus

octopus
Originally uploaded by paola mollica

the original photo from which i painted the paint

darkness

I have not painted much recently...
So I upload this photo I took.

octopi

I painted this Octopi hanging from the Ouzerie in Lips for Mrs Gatti:

afro

another pair, original acrylic on canvas by other artist, watercolour re-interpretation by me

and the others

the road

en route to dakar

this is the title of Mimi Mollica's photographic essay shot in Dakar, Senegal.

the photos themselves are amazing, they capture the transitory and disruptive moment

when the new motorway was being built.

please have a look at these photos if you want to see these paintings for what they are:

http://www.mimimollica.com/reportage/project/en_route_to_dakar

the fishes painting

the fishes small painting

has been made for mari

the original photo has some salt

on top of the fishes,

as they lay ready to go into the bbq

i had to remove the salt crust as it wouldn't

be too sweet for the child.

starting from many years ago

i have always liked drawing and painting

and i now find that it is a way for me to relax

and express my self in other way than words.

my latest paintings (mini) are mainly based on photographs

and they are apart of a project i am doing with my brother,

a photographer.

we work together. he takes the pictures, i paint them,

giving them another dimension.

the originality of the image is in the photograph as it capture

the moment in that particular frame of time and space.

however the re-production of the photograph stops it, and

at the same time it diminishes it and elevates it.....

if you know what i mean

i have posted some images from the series in my other blog

but i will now keep them in this separate space

je suis 'artiste!