Art galleries or artist’s supply stores are some kind of sacred places for art lovers. If you’re in an art shop, there are isles of brushes with beautiful bristles and handles that feel like like you’re holding something precious in your hands; there are hundreds of paint tubes for different kinds of painting methods, such as watercolor, oil painting or if you’re into acrylic painting. But oil paintings have a special place in my heart, because there’s just something so out of this world about their texture and color. The artist took her / his time to think about details and to build the painting upon its foundation. I included some of my favorite paintings from the National Gallery.
Sketching and observing art works at the National Gallery felt surreal. Art may not be fundamental and it’s not everybody’s cup of tea, but there’s a story behind it. Some of my favorite pieces come from the Realism and Impressionism movements, here I sketched Jurij Šubic’s portrait of author Ivan Tavčar and one of the main figures from Ivana Kobilca’s Summer.