Samuel Silva | A Contemporary Hyperrealist Portugese Painter

 

Samuel Silva's Paintings

It's difficult to imagine that Samuel Silva, a self-taught hyperrealist Portuguese artist—more accurately, a photorealist—did not attend art school and learned how to paint by doing. He produces his works with standard ballpoint pens. Silva says that he does not blend colors; instead, he merely adds many layers of ink using brushstrokes. This gives the false impression that there is color and blending when there isn't. Samuel started drawing when he was two years old and over time he refined his unique style. The process of creating such works of art is impervious to faults and blunders since ballpoint pen ink instantaneously freezes. As an attorney by profession, he doesn't make new art as frequently as other artists, but when he does, it's really masterpieces. This demonstrates once more that what an artist draws is not as essential as what they do. A genuine artist may use any medium to produce a piece of art. Samuel Silva draws using a ballpoint pen and is inspired by actual individuals in his favorite images.

Faunal representatives dazzle with their elegance and photographic realism of each fiber and feather. Samuel Silve drew a variety of realistic animals in ballpoint pen, including tigers, squirrels, frogs, horses, and both domestic and wild cats. Samuel Silva puts in anything from five to fifty hours of intense labor to produce one piece like this. About the technique of making his artwork, Samuel Silva states: "A ballpoint pen's ink dries quickly once applied to the surface and cannot be removed. And then you only need to apply different colors to create the desired look. I apply layers of colored shading to create the appearance of several hues in order to broaden my palette. "At this point in my life, I'm pretty familiar with chalk, pencil, colored pencil, pastel, oil, and acrylic," said Samuel Silva, but he still likes to use ballpoint pens to sketch. In 1983, Samuel Silva was born in Portugal. As the artist himself notes, "I began to draw and develop my own style with a ballpoint pen for drawing when I was at school, in a simple class, making sketches in my notebook." The artist's love of painting, sculpture, and drawing first emerged when he was just 2 years old. It is noteworthy that Samuel Silva graduated from law school in 2007 and selected a career unrelated to the arts. For Samuel Silva, drawing is still only a pastime. Samuel Silva is a resident of London, United Kingdom.