Preferred media
My preferred media is oil painting on canvas for the larger scale works and pen/ pencil on paper for the smaller scale ones.
Alternating between these is absolutely crucial for me to find aesthetical balance and I often experience the benefits of working in one method later when exploring the other, almost as if I cannot fully appreciate expressing through large paintbrush stroke painting on a bigger scale without the detail work of precise drawing with pen/ pencil on a smaller scale and vice-versa.
Within oil painting, I use mainly REMBRANDT oil painting colors on Cotton / linen canvases and as far as drawing is concerned my choices fall mostly with BIC, ECOLINE and graphite pencils on canson paper.
Colours
Choice of colors in Tiago’s work draws heavily from the basic three color theory categories: The color wheel (with its primary, secondary and tertiary colors and their respective interactions), color harmony (with its goal of Harmony as a dynamic equilibrium avoiding extreme unity and understimulation and extreme complexity and subsequent over-stimulation), and the context of those same colors should be used (the exact relation between colors and shapes and its contrasting and complementary effects to depict elements and narratives).
The predominant use of warm and cold colors to either determine front or/ and background depending on the viewpoint and light/ shadow on the painting is a recurring technic with the painting/ drawing either exposing a dark frontal object on a lit lighter background or vice-versa.
Brushes and pencils
Both Synthetic and hog bristle brushes of all shapes (Round, flat, bright, filbert and fan) are used in Tiago’s oil paintings to depict the broadest array of elements possible.
As far as drawing goes, all types of pencils and pens are used, ranging from brands like Pigma Micron fineliners and Faber-castell to BIC and Ecoline.
