We present the work of a young Argentine artist named Martin Palottini. Born in Buenos Aires in 1981. His work is part of several public and private collections.

Martín Palottini defines himself as an illustrator. His work enjoys an exquisite technical precision.
This realistic artist and at the same time "symbolic, surrealist, conceptual"......, organizes his artistic discourse based on the portrait and the figure. The portrait worked with a tool that we all have within our reach: an HB pencil and a watercolor graphite stick.

The "invoice" of the images he creates, alternates a hyperrealistic finish, made with pencil and / or watercolor graphite that in many works, accompanied by other materials such as paper with designs, gold leaf, threads with which he sews the paper .... only these textures generate color rhythms within a monochromatic work. And when this color appears, it is transformed into a dense plane that balances the line.

He works on paper and also on canvas! Yes, he draws with graphite on the canvas itself. He finds interesting the texture that the pencil gives him on that surface.
As for his iconography, a common feature in his work is the superimposition of drawings on this hyper-realistic portrait. Sometimes there are splittings of the character itself, the repetition of the figure on itself, duplicating the focus of the gaze, which provides a certain sense of movement, of uneasiness, of uneasy dream, of cloistered reality.

Heterodox frames and positions. Gestures that defy the viewer. Each painting narrates a scene, a stopped time. There is no landscape. The scenery is bathed in neutral backgrounds, white, emptiness....

And that surrealistic conception of the scene, where from the figure appear projected diverse elements: animals, vegetation, etc., which endow the image with hidden meanings open to numerous interpretations and sensations....

"We propose a work based on this approach of the artist. Collect portraits from newspapers, magazines, internet... and cut out, tear these portraits and paste them on a sheet of paper. And in the same way that Martin Palottini intervenes on them, you can intervene on your paper surface ..... either by superimposing the same figure several times and without lifting the pencil from the paper, drawing only with a line. Or, inspired by what the character suggests to you, come up with different elements, objects, characters .... whatever, but there must be a connection between what you draw and the character.
Try to integrate somehow the image with the technique you choose.

When we draw, ALWAYS keep in mind the language of the line, its nuances, its presence or absence... that parallelism that we usually establish between the language of the line and the language of music....Matiz, nuance, nuance.....

Attached are some drawings to serve as inspiration in case you want to include them, or make variants of them or work doodling or how you feel like it "