Lupe Ficara

Wasserfarben. Acquarelli. Trasparenza e sostanza. salotti bene riunione di famiglia holiday bitch

Un natale con la N minuscola. In Natale di orrori e testimoni impotenti. Nothing is harder on the soul, than the smell of dreams, while they are evaporating” Mahmoud Darwish Faces. Gouache on paper A5

Winter, early dinners, frozen short days, withe on white , I m fading away. Self portrait. Preparatory sketch. Acrylic on wooden board. I m working on this self portrait in the snow. It will be a large self portrait. It’s again time to make a big one, to substitute the old one, of 10 years ago, which is not representative any more. Preparatory sketch. Colored pencils on paper. Some of the…

Mixed Mediums on paper

Have you ever find a canvas in the street? I am a great expert in canvas recovery. Both the ones I find on the street and the ones I accidentally buy at flea markets when I procure vintage frames for my works. Series of 4 pictures taken during the phases of a canvas’ recovery. Often they are canvases with cuts, tears, distortions and, above all, previous work, absolutely too amateurish and with…

Painting Cities 2020-2022 Two years of researches about cities sights. A painting technique developed over two years of research.A careful preparation of the backgrounds, textured, thick, striped, with the intention of rendering the sensation of swarming and continuous movement that, even in the most motionless views, remains hovering over all city views, like a visual smog.A cue of continuous…

“Pumpkins, my favourite model…” Franco Mazzucchetti Oil on wooden board . 26x36cm

Halloween leaving models behind.. Oil on wooden board. 26x34cm

I recently participate to a very pleasant initiative by La Base Nice, an ecological ambientalist association. The initiative consists in a sketching day where all participants alternatively are being models or paintings the models. All drawings authors are anonymous , only the names of the models appear on the drawings. At the end of few sessions the drawings will be sold in an auction to found…

The mirage will vanish. The past is past and none can fix it anymore. You don’t know what you lost. Oil on canvas. 50 x 65 cm

Squalor. Petty revenge.This time not even inspiration for greater works. Just a nauseating endless boredom.

Oil on wooden board. 27x21cm

The grey of the skies , the reflection of grey on the sea. Just a red tree spotting out… Oil on wooden board. 30×30 cm

A couple of images of the last large work. Oil on canvas 95 x 115 cm And me.