ラファエロ・チッカレーニ came to us LIVE from Italy on Friday, November 4th Zoom経由で 水彩画のテクニックと愛用のカラーパレットを共有するために。.
Here’s a quick Q&A with Raffaele:
なぜ絵を描くのですか？
I‘ve always been drawing and painting (and playing) since I can remember, so making art has always been a way of expressing myself. No special goal to pursue or rules to follow, just a normal way of traveling through life. What has come out of that process may not have been actual “art” all the time of course, but it was the essence of that travel anyway.
正式な美術教育を受けましたか？
No, I only had a formal training for my main job, which was teaching. Now after retiring, I am a full-time working and teaching artist.
私にインスピレーションを与えるものは何ですか？
As for subjects, I mainly get inspiration from landscapes. As for creativity, everything can inspire me – books, art history, abstract words, fine art critics, students and teaching.
絵を描いているときは、どんな音楽を聴きますか？
As a musician… I absolutely prefer a non-music environment while I paint. Do musicians usually look at artworks while composing music?
メンターはいらっしゃいますか？
My main cultural mentor was my University professor Gino Stefani, who taught of History of Music. He always suggested a semiologic approach to every field regarding communication and expression. He was a friend of the late Umberto Eco, whose University courses I also attended in the 1970s. My watercolor mentors are to be found in books by J.S. Cotman, E.Lear, J.W.M. Turner, E.Wesson, E. Seago, R. Hilder and J. Fletcher Watson. I have been fortunate enough to have some correspondence with the latter. Also Eastern contemporary masters, which we have only been able to know and follow on the web in the last decades, are of great inspiration.
毎日絵を描きますか？
I do not paint every day. I need blank periods made up of thinking and studying days. Then at a moment’s notice, I go paint!
一度に一枚ずつ描きますか、それとも数枚を同時に制作しますか？
I usually work on a piece at a time, but I often paint some pieces in one session – I do prefer to work very quickly! Sometimes I work after stating a concept or an inspiring idea-trigger, but I mostly go with the flow, especially en plein air.
アトリエでの絵画と、野外での写生、どちらがお好みですか？
I do prefer to paint en plein air, but I feel like I am en plein air even indoors, since I never had a “true” studio.
何色のコアカラーを使用していますか？
I use very few core colors all the time, but I have been limiting myself to very restricted palette sets. In the last decades one of my main interests has been the effort to study, understand and exploit the lessons that color triads teach us painters. My perfect set is three colors, three brushes, and a water cup.
チューブ、パン、それともスティック？
I prefer tube paints, though I sometimes also use pans when traveling – staying light is a must. It may seem funny, but tube paints are still preferable for quick sketches. I consider using sticks mostly for “filling” whole pans in special sets.
作品が完成したといつわかるのですか？
I know that a piece is finished… mostly too late! Only at this age am I beginning to let a painting flow and stand on its own in its “unfinished look” glory.
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