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I Share My Struggles In Traditional Art As A Self Taught Artist

I was born in Italy and since I was little I’ve been interested in art and crafts: I was always watching art programs in television, buying art tools and trying new tecniques. Even if with time I improved as a crafter and sculptor I still struggle as an artist. I wasn’t able to study art during my life and the lack of knowledge about basic perspective and anatomy often burdens me when I attempt to draw or paint. Exactly for this reason I decided to challenge myself to create simple works in differents traditional media to overcome my difficulties. These are some of the ones I was able to complete. I would love if you told me what you think of them!

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Tainted sunset

This is my first attempt at painting. I used acrylic paint and a square piece of foam as canvas ( the side is 9.5 cm). I wanted to portray a bright red sunset over the sea. I started with the sea and the sky and after those were dry I added the sun and the black effect!

Nature goddess

I Share My Struggles In Traditional Art As A Self Taught Artist

This is my first attempt at using watercolors I know that both the drawing and the colouring are very simple but I’m still very satisfied because I love trying new art tecniques!

It depicts a nature goddess ( the figure on the left ) I also painted a snail some birds and some flowers to show the natural element at the center of the picture there is a wood sceptre the goddess is holding onto and on the right there is her knight with a flower shaped weapon I used an abstract background to keep things simple!

The vineyard

I Share My Struggles In Traditional Art As A Self Taught Artist

Out of al the works here this is the one I struggled with the most. To make it I used wine, tea and soy sauce. They all dripped very easily off the paper and took a lot more to dry than normal watercolors. In this work a man and a woman meet under a vineyard and a wine of glass. I made it in honor of my hometown very famous for its wine!

The bonds that connects us

I Share My Struggles In Traditional Art As A Self Taught Artist

To draw it I used gel pens, pencils and gold leaf. In the center there is a huge heart with colorful roots and branches that connects many people together and on the bottom I drew the sea of emotions we feel as we interact with each other
This work is 21.5×14.5 cm.

This was truly fun and challenging to make!

I was born in Italy and since I was little I've been interested in art and crafts: I was always watching art programs in television, buying art tools and trying new tecniques. In my early years of life I was mostly invested in glass art, painting, drawing and paper crafts. It was during middle school that I got closer to the world of assemblage and recycling: I bought my first glue gun and I started to stick different small caps and buttons to paintbrushes to decorate them. With time I've gotten more and more invested in crafts and I started to decorate mirrors, pens, photo frames, bookmarks, centerpieces and canvas. In these years I started to feel the need to develope my craft from a simple decoration to an abstact works on its own so I created bases of cloth, wire and glue that were covered with layers of different materials. Throught trial and error I was able to improve my works and my creations started to grow in size. In these years I've also studied watercolors, fashion design and still life photography. It was in 2018 that, for the first time, I decided to join an art contest; it was the "unconventional art" contest sponsered by the Rypley gallery. Being awarded a place among the finalists of this competiton I started to rethink and redevelope my style from craft to artwork and I started to be more interested in art competitions and this brought me to join during 2019 the "unconventional duo" art contest sponsored by the "How to train your dragon" franchise where I was awarded an honorable mention. Afterwards I started to be intersted in making animal and human sculptures so I started studying anatomy and proportons and I tried to apply them in my works. In 2019 my work was exhibited in Milan for the " Swiss handmade original art contest" aften being selected by a panel of judges.

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My name is Aelita and I have been an Editor for Bored Panda since 2019. I spend my days working with my amazing team and making articles the best they can be. Fantasy and magic have always ruled over my world, from movies to TV shows, to Video Games to tabletop games like Dungeos and Dragons, I try to find magic in every part of my life. Writing is a big part of me too, I hope to publish a fantasy novel one day. I also enjoy playing guitar and singing, as music always help me to get in a great mood. I have an adorable German Shepherd named Hela and we get into all kinds of adventures together.

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