Pacifica, California.

Stopped by Pacifica, a small town between San Francisco and Half Moon Bay and experienced the coldest night this season. The warmer palette is only due to sunset hour. Charming place, delightful with its expanse and a lot of fresh air. 

Pacific Scape.

One more seascape of the Pacific coast. These are small snippets 6''x4'' of oil on board. The small scale allows me to work fast and be spontaneous, something I would love to carry on to bigger scale before too long. Of course scale isn't that important and for now this series is a lot of fun. 

Central Californian Coast.

One more painting I did from central Californian coast. This will be a series of small format oil on board paintings. Summer is so hot that never before I saw an oil painting drying in one day or less! More to come. 

Piedras Blancas Lighthouse.

And so, I took some time off. This is oil on board from California's central coast along the Pacific Coast highway, the lighthouse from 1875 and still functioning. While showing my parents around California this summer, it turned out that I was shown all this profound beauty that was missing within the walls of university, not to complain about education, anyone! Soon more to come!

Los Angeles Zoo, painting with Deborah Ross.

Today was a fortune. I painted with Deborah Ross, one of America's leading wildlife artist. Ross is a faculty of the School of Visual Arts in New York and also teaches workshops in animal drawing and movement at Dreamworks, Pixar, and Walt Disney Feature Animations. 

“I work in watercolor because of the speed, mobility and emotional richness of the medium. My technique derives from the oriental school of painting. A broad sweep of color applied with the full body of the brush lays down the overall gesture. I then use the fine tip of the brush for a telling detail – the arch of a wrist or angle of brow line - to set and ground .the pose. All of this must be done quickly, for I only work from life. Once the moment is past, I stop.  My ambition is a portrayal of the essence of a subject distilled during the moments of observation. This “genii loci” (spirit of the place) is severely depleted and often lost when an animal is displaced from it true habitat.” - Deborah Ross 

Robert, my friend.

Taking breaks between film work and putting some care into this blog keeps me happy and sane! 

Painting.

Two Candles, oil on board, 9'' x 12''

Winter Light.

I painted this in two years. Started it one winter, and painted for about two hours. Then I took a year to think and completed it next winter in another two hours. It would not be possible for me to come to this result in that first year. 

Winter Light, oil on board 8'' x 10''

Countryside.

A few people from my native country told me that this painting reminds them of Mikalojus Ciurlionis, probably one of the most known Lithuanian artists. He was a painter and a composer. Even though that I do not find any vivid resemblance, I agree, that in some way there is a similar spirit in this painting. It came out unintentionally, I love when it happens.

Countryside, 24'' x 36'' oil on linen

On the way to San Francisco.

Oil on board

Aaron.

Oil on canvas and mixed media. I painted the portrait of this child while still living in Lithuania. I took a photo of the painting with a primitive digital camera I had at the time, and that is all I ended up having, since the painting went missing. Then, just recently, I discovered this image and finished it digitally. 

Aaron, oil on canvas & mixed media

Lindscape - Soundscape.

The Soundscape, acrylic on canvas

Baltic Pier.

Baltic Pier, 20'' x 24'', acrylic on canvas 

My Little Boat.

Painted it in Dublin, Ireland, and after years passed, I realize that this is exactly how I felt during that time. Very little and not giving up. I think that throughout the time I only became smaller. 

Little Boat, 24'' x 20'', oil on canvas 

Painting from Film.

Sometimes I stop frames while watching a film and paint. In this way I study from all, director, actor, light artist, and cinematographer.  

Promissed Heaven, acrylic on card

Stalker, Girl. 10.5'' x 8,6'', oil on card

Painted in France.

I painted these during my half-a-year stay in France in 2009. Preproduction of the first three episodes of Oah & Harlam stories was made at ENSAD, a film school in Paris. During this time I took a painting class with Mark Tunguy, a French contemporary painter.  

Cannes at Sundown, 10'' x 14'', oil on canvas board

Cannes after Sundown, 12'' x 16'', oil on canvas board

Reed on Sunset, 129,5 x 96,5 cm, oil on canvas

Landscape, 60 x 73 cm, oil on canvas

Portrait, 130cm x 162 cm, oil on canvas

Plein Air painting in Malibu, California.

June Gloom in Malibu, 12'' x 24'', oil on linen

La Piedra Beach, 12'' x 24'', oil on linen

Elephant Rock, 12'' x 36'', oil on linen

Morning at El Matador, 12'' x 24'', oil on linen