Devianart

Also you can browse my portfolio at Devianart:

http://jsalinas.daportfolio.com

Facebook

I have a Facebook page with works. tell me if you like them:
http://www.facebook.com/jdpaint

Sketches

I have been a little blocked on the painting side, however I have been scketching using graphite, charcoal, acrylic, ink, and markers.

 

 

Anamorphic

I am trying to get a 3D effect on some drawings using anamorphic technique, this is my first attemt to do so: Dry pastel on colored paper.

In the wilderness

I had forgot to publish this work, it is the last oil painting I have worked on, it was last year though. I have not taken time to create. I have been reading a lot and experimenting with digital media and photography. I hope to continue painting soon, but I have no had the peace of mind I need to do so.

The House on the Hill

A little incursion on landscape, however I cannot avoid to construct a scene with a human being, in a way that that tells a story to the viewer, hopefully something subtle extrange or disturbing.

Jumpers from another time

This is an unfinished painting which is a collage from a painting of Sydney Richard Percy and Wall Jumpers from Malcom Morley. The Jumpers, in this case, are running from a 19th century british lanscape. I liked very much the idea and I am planning to finish the painting soon.

A reproduction and 20' Sketches

The following exercice consisted on a reproduction from Lucien Freud:This was a interesting exercice that maked me to struggle with colors and textures.

Following a set of 20' sketches on canvas mounted on carboard, I am not satisfyed with them, but they served it purpose of oblige me to sinthetize:

Human Figure Exercise (Baroque)

First Step: Grisaille, lights and shadows, figure cutted on the margin, chiaroscuro

Second Step apply color, emphasis on the lights and shadows.

Colors used in thios exercise: Blue, Red, Yellow, White, Violet, Green Orange.

Human Figure Painting

Exercise of human figure painting

First Step, a drawing with carbon and later painting

Second Step: Grisaille: painting the shadows and lights with grey

Third Step apply local colors over the grisaille

Fourth Step, paint over the local colors with a restricted palette.

Colors used in this exercise: Naples Yellow, Ochre Yellow, Burnt Earth Sienna, Natural Earth Umber, Burnt Earth Umber

A diptic

The final exercise to finish the course I was previously describing, was the developmento of a project based on a triptic or a diptic. I choose a diptic.

The Fire

Each one of the paintings work alone however I think that they have more impact together.

The letter.

When I was working in them I was thinking in the relation between them. It is not clear, one gets the light from the other, however they might be at a world of distance, one might be a wife reading a letter from a husband (a soldier?) on the other side of the world just where the fire (explosion?) is.

This is the Diptic expected Layout

They were at an exibition in the Autumm Salon at the Chilean Society of Fine Arts, and "The Fire" got an Honourable Mention.