artist research( Leonid Afremov)

For my artist research I have found an artist who isn’t that well know, I came across one of his paintings on the internet and I really liked it, so I searched the artist and that’s how I found Leonid Afremov. I really love his painting as they are filled with bright colour and joy, even if it is raining in some paintings it is still a happy joyful painting. Leonid is an optimist and you can see it in all of his paintings. Is talents achieved their heights when he moved to Israel in 1990 and the sun was filled with lots of colour, which made Leonid’s paintings bright and joyous. I really like how he uses oil paint and a palette knife to just smooth on the paint and then even it out and also he just blobs the paint on for a patchy effective look. It took him 10 years to learn how to master the palette knife as it is a hard thing to master. Before I watched any videos of Leonid and his actual technique with the palette knife I have developed my own style of painting from looking at his painting and trying to recreate them, only instead of a palette knife I use a paint brush, it’s a similar technique where I brush colour on side to side and for the patchy buts I just dab the canvas/ paper with my paint brush and get the same effect. I just love how effective his paintings are and how all the colours contrast and catch your eye. A good painting makes you feel happy.

Leonid’s talent for art was noticed from a young age so his parents encouraged him to develop his talent.  He had a hard time starting out as he didn’t have the freedom to paint what he wanted however in 2004 his friends told him about eBay and he started to sell his own work on there and had instant success.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjjrPWHKEZ0