Hands of Hope

February 6th, 2008,The First Wednesday Art Walk in Downtown Jacksonville is where I began the painting. The progress you see to the left, from the mockup below it is what was accomplished on this evening, approximately 3 hours of work.
Hands of Hope" is part of an event coming up in may that benefits The Saint Boniface Haiti Foundation, a non-profit, volunteer organization. Its primary mission is to provide health care to the poor of Haiti in the rural area of Fond Des Blancs. The painting to the left is the current progress I made during the start of the ArtWalk last night. This represents about 3 hours of work. B The painting will be auctioned off May 2nd. Before I began the painting I received some photos of the hospital in Haiti, with a striking photo of a young boy. I decided at that time I would use use face in the both the paintings and the marketing materials.

April 2nd, 2008,The First Wednesday Art Walk I returned to Gold's Gym to work on the "Hands of Hope" painting The image here was a practice pastel because the painting being auctioned off at the event has many hand represented, but they all ended up looking like mine. So I set out to take photos of my neighbor's hands to use as model. Click here for more details about this painting and the purchasing of prints and related works.

Art of Anthony 2008

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See the start of my new painting Hands of Hope during the February ArtWalk in downtown Jacksonville

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My Blue World Paintings

"My Blue World" which takes its name from a song title from a band in the 70s/80s called Electric Light Orchestra, is not specifically a style of painting but a color chosen as part of a method of painting that dates back to the Renaissance. If you look at many paintings by artists such as Leonardo Da Vinci, or Raphael, the basis of the colors are dark brown over a brighter base color like yellow. The technique involves first painting the canvas a lighter color, letting that dry, covering it over with a darker color, then before the darker color dries, removing it in the areas you want the light to shine through.

Art of Anthony

Much of my art is very intertwined with events in my life, experiences, nightmares, and mostly art from my photography. People and landscapes are probably my most loved forms of expression. Landscapes more these days as after moving to Florida in 1993.

The reason I moved to Florida was because of the ocean, the beauty of its nature, and now that has started to disappear. Okay, so it really started to disappear the moment that famous mouse built that theme park in Orlando. So I set up to document in art what I loved about this state and most about the world around me.

Paintings International

I began this series shortly after coming back from a trip to San Francisco California. Because I have not had the luxury of traveling extensively, I've relied on my friends and other co-workers who do. My day job, if you will, is for a very "global" company, and I've met many great people from the Asia-Pacific, European and South American regions. So with people I know who live in Singapore, to India, Brazil and France, I'm able to have access to photography from around the world. This entire series I plan on doing in oil paintings using style I've grown more accustom to over the years, which is a mix of impressionism and surrealism. Artist who inspire me in these styles are Monet, Van Gogh and Salvador Dali.

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