Sitting skeleton I (2010) Drawing by Clara Almada

Original

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Seller Clara Almada

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Original Artwork Drawing, Ink on Paper

Artworks classification

Original Artwork

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Dimensions Height 33.9in, Width 24in
Categories Drawings under $500 Figurative

Quietly observing a model helps reveal an inner, calmer, honest version of that model. It makes the author a sort of authorized voyeur, an observer of the daily. The fragmented reality.
With this drawing I tried to make a personal aproach to a very academic subject. The way I made it mine was through the use of my personalized marker: A canvas wedge strecher with ink. I used old, stained paper, that with time got even more weathered, gave it character.
I can only hope the viewer will feel the calmness I did when I observed and made it.

About this artwork: Classification, Techniques & Styles

Ink

A strongly tinted liquid or paste that is used to mark paper or other printable materials. The design is done manually with a slab, feather, brush, or straightener.

Figurative

Figurative and colorful painting having taken the liberty of including all forms of art without border of cultural genre and geographic origin, without hierarchy of values between high and subculture.

Technic Drawing

Drawing is a technique of visual representation on a flat support. The term "drawing" designates both the action of drawing, the resulting graphic work, and the shape of any object. It is also a representation on a surface of the shape (and possibly the light and shadow values) of an object or figure, rather than their color. There are a large number of drawing techniques: “Linear drawing” represents objects by their outlines, edges and some characteristic lines; beyond this limit, the drawing develops by representing the volume by shadows, often by means of hatching, incorporates colors, and joins, without clear transition, the painting.

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Clara Almada

Portugal

I think that what drives me to create art is unconscious. I don't know why I create art; I do it because it feels natural, soothing, necessary. It's exhilerating and calming at the same time. It's after that I rationalize my work, my intention, my goal.
When I was growing up, very exposed to art, I allways thougt I'd study painting. One day I realized that what really draws my attention is the fragment, usually not the whole. From then on, that became increasingly more apparent in my work. I endeng up studying sculpture because it felt natural, like it was my real path, and it's the perfect medium to work the fragment.
My inspirations are again very scattered, it's usually based on whatever caught my atention at some period in time. Sometimes, I work it months or even years after, and sometimes that inspiration comes back again for another go.
I had a highschool teacher, a painter, who said: An Artist has a job and a profession; The job is what you do to survive and pay for your profession. I think that somewhere along the way I got lost in my job and almost forgot my profession. Now I rediscovered the sheer joy of my profession, how it makes me feel overjoyed and I feel galvanized to show it to as many people as possible, that's why I chose to use digital platforms. they have a wide number of viewers and are incresingly respected references in the new ways to sell art to an international public.