Video: Samuel Silva is an artist with eight multi-colored ballpoint pens
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Drawing and photography are the yin and yang of contemporary art. Amazingly, in the works Portuguese artist Samuel Silva it is almost impossible to distinguish one from the other. It would seem like first-class pictures, but in reality - hyperrealistic paintings, on which reality is captured with amazing clarity. But the most interesting thing is that these paintings were created not with watercolors or gouache, but … with ballpoint pens! Eight colors from the Bic firm - that's the whole palette that the master has at hand!
Girls and cats look just great in Samuel's drawings: his paintings breathe life, as if a magic smile froze on the lips of a child for a moment or the piercing gaze of a predator was directed at the viewer. In principle, this is not surprising: many of the paintings were copied by the artist from the photos he liked.
It takes about 30 hours for Samuel Silva to create a portrait; this is a rather painstaking task. Most importantly, he has no right to make a mistake: incorrect strokes freeze instantly and it is impossible to “remove” them from the picture. In addition, Samuel admits that he does not mix inks, he applies strokes of different colors to layers, due to which the effect of a rich palette of colors is created.
The 29-year-old admits that creating drawings for him is nothing more than a hobby, he is a lawyer by profession. He began to create the first pictures with a ballpoint pen back in school notebooks and since then has not ceased to improve his skills. Of course, ballpoint pens are not the only material with which he works, Samuel also "masters" the technique of drawing using chalk, pencil, colored pencils, pastels, oil paints and acrylics.
Recall that earlier on our website Kulturologiya.ru we have already talked about artists whose paintings are indistinguishable from photographs. That only there are realistic street drawings by David John Cassan, black and white "almost photographs" of Ethan Murrow, as well as "photographs" of animals, created by Paul Lung not with a camera, but with a pencil!
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It's hard to believe, but these realistic paintings were made not in oil or watercolors, but with ordinary ballpoint pens
“All I have is just eight colored ballpoint pens,” says self-taught Portuguese artist Samuel Silva, who creates stunningly realistic paintings that are so hard to distinguish from photographs. According to the author, he never mixes colors, but only applies several layers of ink with strokes so that the illusion of mixing and various colors is obtained, which he actually does not have