"My Recommendation" series, which interviews your favorite art materials to a Pigment articles expert who also acts as an artist.

Following the previous Serizawa Margarita, this time it is a special feature of Atsumi Okano, who has also appeared in Instagram live videos.

Okano studied painting in California. What kind of art materials do you usually use? Let's ask a question immediately.

-What kind of concept is the work produced?

Should I say natural phenomena? If you look at the shadow of the leaves reflected on the ground, and the sunlight reflected on the water surface, you may feel like it resonates in yourself.

I drop the lights and colors of everyday life, and the sensations caused by their afterimage into the canvas as a layer of color. The color gradation itself seems to be the time of time, so the oil paint that dries slowly and blends into the picture skin is interesting to change the process itself.

-How did you start oil painting?

When I first studied in the United States, I wanted to major in photos, but I wanted to express the world of imagination only in my head, so I tried to touch paint.

The professor who was taken care of at that time was widely seen about color studies and painting materials, and was taught the various charms of oil paint.

I'm still studying because the expression of paint changes depending on how I use it, so I'm still studying.

《STAR TREASURE》 Atsumi Okano, 2015

-I heard that Holbein's Verne is usually used. Please tell me the opportunity to meet this material.

I dilute the tube paint with a solvent, etc., and make the work while repeating the color. So I was looking for a transparent paint without losing the strength of the color.

When I actually used it, I really liked not only the coloring from the tube, but also the creamy, glossy texture and the vividness of the color.

-What did you really like?

It is the best favorite point to be able to get a clear transparency. The rich color without turbidity is also attractive, and it keeps a light and beautiful color even if it is mixed.

Even if the colors are repeated, they do not lose their individuality, and the color development and brightness can be created as they are.

-Verne sells simple prescriptions.

In addition, this oil paint has a silver white one with linseed oil and poppy oil.

It is attractive that you can make a mixture by mixing pastel colors, or use it only in white.

-Do you have any favorite colors?

There is no time to start raising your favorite colors in the Verne series, but I especially like cobalt violet, Ultramarine blue, cobalt turquoise, bismass yellow, pyrol orange, kinakridon magenta.

-Please tell us if you want to try it in the future.

"Morning Call" exhibition scenery, 2021 Art Space Compass (Tokyo)

I want to try mediums other than oil paintings. I also want to make an installation work.

The rest are silk and acrylic resin. I want to draw it on a transparent standard material.

-The specific material are you worried about?

I tried using effect pigments for the first time recently, but I like it because it has become polarized and a mysterious picture skin.

If you mix oil color medium and effect pigments, oil paint will be formed, so I think it would be interesting to use it with Verne.

When I gazzed from the top of the effect pigment, the transparent lower layer was sparkling and the different shine increased.

-If you have any announcements at the end, please.

In Ginza, we are participating in a group exhibition planned by Pigment staff.

There are various art materials used, such as rock paint and ballpoint pens, but since I often talk about art materials on a regular basis, I was happy to have the opportunity to actually exhibit them.

Please come by all means.

Exhibition information

Exhibition name "Morning call"

Hisako Ueno, Atsumi Okano, Serizawa Margarita, Aya Takemoto

Venue art space compass

3-5-3 Kyoebashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo Keiei Building 2F

https://rashin.net/

Service 2021 Monday, February 22, February 6, March 6 (Sat)

11: 00-19: 00 (until 17:00 on the last day)

Exhibition Overview

In the cool air, one morning call sounds with the morning light inserted from the curtains. Wake up from a deep and long sleep, and be released from the world of the dark night for a long time. This is a group exhibition by four flat writers held with such wishes.

Each will work on "light" and "memory", pursue the rich possibilities of paintings, and use their own approach to the sense and memory itself. Please take a look at the works of Hisako Ueno, Atsumi Okano, Aya Takemoto, and Aya Takemoto, which provides visual experiences that are awakened in the everyday life of onlineization in recent years.