Welcome to Friday lovely readers, and a brand new edition of Friday Friends.
I hope your festive and New Years celebrations were filled with much love and good cheer. All the Christmas parcels have been sent, perhaps I should put up the tree this weekend!
This week it is my very great pleasure to introduce you to Mely (Melissa Ramirez) the very talented creator behind Imagino and Nuviart.
Mely paints and draws beautiful images designed to tickle the imagination and get you thinking outside stylised boundaries.
Take for example these three pieces, that really caught my attention. Take a moment to study them to see what you can see!
1. blu platapus bird
2. Imagino Sticker Familia
3. Mr Uh oh
Dear readers, I invite you now to explore The Imagery of Imagino and to let your imagination run wild! See you on Sunday for a new weekend blogpost. Have a fantastic weekend xo♥
The Imagery of Imagino
Artist name: Melissa Ramirez
Biography:
My full name
is Nuvia Melissa Ramirez Bourdett, I am
from Panama City, Panama, residing in Sunshine Coast, Queensland for the past 6
years. I have been part of collective exhibitions
and have worked in commissioned projects.
I
am contracted to work as a Scenic Artist with the Art Department of the US
Television show "Survivor" periodically, as well as other TV
and Photo Shoot productions. I am also a Vinyasa Flow Yoga instructor currently
teaching at Limitless Health in Nossa Junction, Sunshine Coast.
Painting
is my main passion, I enjoy the process, it relaxes me. It is almost like
meditation, where I can concentrate on something in particular and leave aside
everything else. It can be clean or messy, big or small, detail or blocky,
abstract or realistic, and all it's forms makes me happy.
Depending on the
project, I use acrylic, watercolour, oil base, stencil and spray paint, colour
pencils, ink and pens, Posca markers and Sharpies, on plywood, canvas or paper.
The illustration style is my favourite, 3D objects and still life.
Artist
Statement
Creating
watercolour "Imagino series" characters, came from a brief thought I
had of making something fully spontaneous, using water to collaborate in the
process. I started by painting shapes with water onto the paper, randomly
adding colours to the water, letting it dry. The colour paint will change,
move, mix and blend while drying, which was really amusing to me. Once it was
dry, an image appeared, very different to what I started with.
I would look at
the shape, then draw with ink pen what I saw, as I saw it. I wanted the process
to be freestyle and almost non-stop. I made one character and found myself with
more, as I enjoyed so much. They represent to me, new friends, almost like the
type you have when you are a kid, imaginary ones. They come from an image I
see, that then gets interpreted in my mind, and becomes a colourful character,
which I play with. They'll love to become your friends too!
About the work
Each painting is an original watercolour painting, one of a
kind, NOT a print, signed on the front and back. They were made using
watercolour paint on 300 Gsm Arches watercolour paper and white card stock
paper, Artline black pen, love and imagination. Paper size varies from A5, A4
and A3.
Each painting is safely packed
with a recycled corrugated cardboard sheet backing, inside a clear cello sleeve.
Original paintings also available online at imagino.etsythemeshop.com - Open to
custom orders.
Dear readers, do you want to see more? Here is how you can connect:
Buy Imagino art in person at In.cuber8r Gallery in
Fortitude Valley Brisbane from Friday 13th December 2013 to the end of February
2014.
View the Artist Website here:
http://www.nuviart.com/
Become a follower on Facebook here:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Nuviart/224545394290051
Buy lovely works of Art on Etsy here:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/Imagino?ref=si_shop
see what inspires on Instagram here:
http://instagram.com/imagino_#
View the full Artist Portfolio of works on behance here:
http://www.behance.net/Nuviart
love the creativity of this artist
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