Leszek Piotrowski Lesstro
Land scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
our readers something about the evolution of your style ? In particular , would you shed light on your usual process and set up ?
I am 32 years old and at this stage of my career it is difficult for me to determine the evolution of my style . I started with painting female nudes . With the passage of time I found , that I feel very good by creating big and very big scale paintings – usually historical genre scenes . However it is not a rule : I like very much painting commissioned portraits , landscapes , seascapes , horses . Generally speaking I enjoy painting a lot . And I am searching for beauty in my painting objects . Women are my favorite painting objects . I try to show their beauty and endless mystery by means of chiaroscuro , where light always wins , just like good overcomes evil .
Here I can say , that the basing element of my usual process – incentive which makes me paint is light . Deep light and shadow game are indispensable for me to create good painting .
Regarding technical questions : my canvas are hand-made . I use raw linen . After stretching it on the loom , the surface is lubricated with rabbit glue . When it is dry it needs to be rubbed until it is completely smooth . Then I apply with a brush a layer of proper prime coat , which is solvent mixture of glue , champagne chalk and linen-seed oil . The process of drying canvas takes up to two months . I paint with the technic of Old Masters , it means , that at first I make underpainting in the form of painting sketch and then I apply many coats of paints in order to get deep color effect .