Diary of an artist 🎨

Diary of an artist 🎨

When the brush glides smoothly, leaving the paint on the canvas, I can see that the perfect technique has been achieved and the learning is over, but the creativity and imagination is limitless.

I paint acrylics part by part so the paint doesn't dry and so I can pull out as much of the paint as possible to make it smooth and perfect.

The technique requires patience and takes time to develop, like someone exercising a muscle daily...

Creativity depends on the work done, and the more we work, the more creative we become...

Hours of painting saturate and fade the creation, the best thing is to take a break and continue later...

I have been painting for many years, but it was only a few years ago that I developed several painting techniques...

Because of my curiosity and learning all the painting techniques, I started: with watercolor colored pencils offered by a mathematics teacher in the eighth year of school...

But after three years I started painting with these carandache watercolor pencils...

During that time, I had already started working in a framing shop, which was my first job.

Over the years, a former art teacher came to the store to frame her watercolors for an exhibition and I recognized her, of course not because I grew up and was practically 19 years old when I started painting at home, but when she appeared at my work and was attended to by me, of course it reminded her of me, and she remembered that I was one of her best art students until one day I was still attending her classes, she asked me to paint her pillars of the school...

On the agreed day I was there to paint and I painted together with an acquaintance of mine who has already passed away named Virgílio...

After painting with Virgílio she gave us five hundred escudos for lunch, as I was still a teenager, imagine the joy, I then went to the cafe and bought a bowl which at that time was a hit with the children...

Returning to the frame shop where I worked for seven years, working with Professor Isabel Fernandes, who is also an artist, came back to get her framed paintings and invited me to join an association of artists called ArcoArtis founded by the renowned plastic artist Victor Lages. ..

Every Tuesday I was there to listen to tips from the artists and especially from Mr Victor Lages (because his tips helped me and his experienced way of explaining what should be done or not to avoid discouraging beginners in painting). a great value coming from this master!!?

It was through this association that I began to hold group exhibitions until in 2001 I held my first solo exhibition at the Amadora recreios gallery...

I heard it was a good exhibition but I didn't sell anything during the month that my paintings were there...

For me it was a victory to exhibit in this gallery, because many tried and failed, for some reason my work was selected and I even gave an interview in the city newspaper...

I took a break from painting for a few years, but in 2005 I started working on acrylic on canvas with an African style, always involving spirituality, which I still maintain today...

I stopped several times and started until I made the decision in 2017 to take what I've always done deeper, and since then I've never stopped.