Paintings I've been working on lately

I've just made photos of my fresh paintings. Those pictures that I've posted last time was made in about a year. Ofcourse there were few paintings that I didin't wanted to be posted on the blog. All the new paintigs were made in last two months and the last one was finishd about two weeks ago.

I made this one from a photo I've taken in "naujininkai" district in Vilnius. I like those places around the railway, because it is like an interruption of something that obays the other lows than the usual city life. Something very unfamiliar with a humankind at first sight. Those places are empty and becames a bit provintial because of that emptyness, but it is also essentialy industrial and urbun as well. I love this contrast. I liked the contrast between the open spece ( the sky ) and something very sharp and edgy in the bottom of the picture. I guess this time I've managed to capture that evnings melancholy.

The building in the picture is a football stadium. I'm a big fan of this kind of sport. Unfortunetly it isn't popular in Lithuania and the only feeling you can have walking round the stadium is the fealing of something that once was crowded and popular, but now is totaly abandond, of something thar was created for crowds, but is left for a slow invasion of nature . I captured this sight few years ago in Ferrara, Italy. I was walking through the stadium during the match between Ferrara and once world famous Napoli. Inside the stadium the crowds were chanting, but it was all very peaceful outside.

The main influence on this picture was De Chirico. I just loved the way he creates mistery out of painting simple architecture.

First steps

Hi, it is a first time I present my pictures on my blog. I'm not very willing to write a lot about what I do. I'll just mention some key things that I find i n my pictures. I'm intrested in space, color and the mood, that my pictures create. I try to avoid sorrow and try to share the fealing of beatuful and relaxing melancholia that I enjoy so much. Most sights in my pictures are landscapes or interiors, but even if it sometimes looks like a certain place, it isn't taken from my real surroundings. Most pictures I paint derives from photos I take, but transformed into paintings it changes because of estetic effect that I need. I belive that realism in my pictures is a bit similar to the one in Antonioni films. It is realism that becomes abstract through the mood or estetic effect it creates.