Sam Battaglia Art – Paintings – Drawings

Sam Battaglia Art

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A detail of an oil painting of a fall pear with golden red leaves by artist Sam Battaglia
Detail of an oil painting of a fall pear with golden red leaves

An Artist

I find inspiration in the connections and beauty of the natural world and the human figure.

Silver-point

  • Hand drawn silver wire
  • Renaissance formula gesso
  • Italian cotton paper support
A photograph taken the next morning of a drying fig and leaf on my drawing table. My silver point drawing stylus is also shown lying on top of the drawing of the fig and leaf.
A photograph taken the next morning of a drying fig and leaf on my drawing table.
A Silverpoint drawing of a fig and leaf
Silverpoint drawing of a fig and leaf

The Morning After – The next morning I saw the change that occurred in what the day before had been a freshly picked fig and leaf from my tree. The silver-point drawing remained as chronicler of nature’s rhythms.

Silver-point is an enjoyable medium with which to draw although somewhat unforgiving. It is traditionally accomplished by using a small diameter wire of pure silver held within a stylus. Minute flakes of the precious metal are laid down onto the specially prepared paper using a surface ground of crushed eggshell, gypsum, or marble dust. The flakes are faint when first applied but darken with time as the silver oxidizes. Drawings in gold, brass, and other soft metals can also be used. Many artists do, though I usually prefer the subtlety of an image made of silver.

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An oil painting on panel of red roses and buds, Sold
Roses – Oil on panel – Sold

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Posted November 2024