PHOTOFRAGMENTS
Mixed media
Photography and paintings
By Juan Bernal
Sunflower
Girasol
Photo, graphite and watercolor on paper, 10 x 10 inches
Sun flower, mixed media
Simplicity is the secret of beauty.
Papyrus
Photo and watercolor on paper, 13 x 19 inches
Papyrus leaf
Dalia Amarilla
Photo and oil on canvas, 40 x 40 inches
Yellow flower with dew
Yellow Dahlia
Photo and oil on canvas, 48 x 48 inches
Flor amarilla con rocio
Wild Poppy
Amapola
Photo and oil on canvas, 24 x 24 inches
Red flower in mixed media
Miltonia
Photo and oil on canvas, 24 x 24 inches
Red orchid with dew
Hybiscus
Photo and oil on canvas, 48 x 48 inches
Pink flower with water droplets
Pink Dahlia
Photo and oil on canvas, 48 x 48 inches
Flor con gotas de agua
Catleyas
Photo and oil on canvas, 24 x 24 inches
Catleya Triana
Ipomea
Batatilla
Photo and oil on canvas, 48 x 48 inches
Blue flower with dew
La flor sencilla la modesta flor
White Gerbera with Dew
Photo and oil on canvas, 20 x 30 inches
Painting and photograph
Paphiopedilum
Photo and watercolor on paper, 12 x 12 inches
Green orchid
Peony
Photo and watercolor on canvas, 40 x 40 inches
Tecnica mixta, pintura y fotografia
PHOTO-FRAGMENTS
Mixed media photography and painting.
By Juan Bernal
Photography has been a very important part of my work, I’ve used it as a stepping stone for my paintings, employing the images I take, transforming and redesigning them.
My paintings are the work of an architect in search of composition, balance, spaces and volumes, based on the geometry of nature, creating my own interpretation.
In this series, on any given work, I use a fragment of a photograph and do a partial print on paper or canvas and then I paint around it, preserving the fragment or changing it as little as possible.
Sometimes, especially at the beginning of the series, I completed the pieces in such a way that it’s difficult to be certain what is photography and what is painting. Later on I have intentionally made the differences more noticeable, sometimes putting them on separate canvases, to let the photo stand for itself, leaving the painted fraction unfinished for contrast.
