DIGITAL PAINTING BY RAFAEL ESPITIA
Concept Art Sketches
I was born in Cartagena, Colombia in 1967. I started painting since I was 5 years old and at the age of 13 my passion for painting was clear. I was distinguished for my skills on painting photographic realism; at the time, the press used to call me a “child prodigy”. Today I have more than 30 years experience in fine arts. I studied art and history of arts in Bogotá, Madrid and New York, and after receiving several awards in Spain and continuing exhibiting, I was commissioned to make murals, cataloged as the best of my city. In 1995 I founded the company “Diseño Interior” in Cartagena, Colombia, and became its design director. One year later and with over 70 employees, I started the manufacture of furniture and moldings, and created the brands "Espitia Art", "Espitia Furniture", and "Espitia Moldings". This gave me 15 years experience in leadership and personnel management. Moreover, I have always been passionate, immersed and seduced by the film world, and so, with the help of my 10 years experience and great management of the most advanced digital software, I am able to work on them with speed and efficiency. Currently I am living between Miami (US) and Cartagena (COL). Thank you for visiting my website.
Rafael Espitia.
GLANCE PROJECT PICS
RAFAEL ESPITIA DEMO
HARANDASH PROJECT PICS
ESPITIA 3D PAINTINGS, Technique and inspiration
"My technique today is the sum of many years of experiments and tests that have resulted in overlapping of spots and effects that serve to convey a message. In the process I use techniques and concepts of wave frequency of the colors, the speed at which the colors travel in space, to produce feelings of beauty to the brain of the beholder and also to be able to show my work in 3D, and yes, my paintings apart that they can be seen in a conventional manner also can be seen with 3D glasses where the images appear as layers to produce the illusion of depth and the 3D vertigo, this is very interesting in my exhibitions and produces a revolution in the room where the works are exhibited, is inovative and the public recognizes it as a contribution to the art of the moment...."
"I am inspired in most cases by color and beauty, the exhuberant beauty of a woman and the beauty of a magical element of my Colombia. In "Women" in particular the contemporary woman, the one that speaks her mind and chooses what she wants, the woman who seduces and is seduced, that woman that with a gesture says it all. I'm also working on a series I call: Glances (glimpses) where I present magical places, strange, unique, unexplored worlds where I want to seduce the viewer inviting him to travel with me and show him places filled with lots of color, shapes and emotions that seem quite like my fantastic Colombia..."
"...this is all about showing and reinterpreting what attracts me the most: color, so I start creating complex compositions that allow me to tell, within the same image, different sensations of color, textures and shapes that tell stories, these stories are read as a product of the result of the combination of what is described by the image, suggested by the brush strucks and color spots and by he imagination of the observer. I always want that ultimately that the viewer feel surprised and delighted with my work. When you see closely and carefully one of my works, especially the work of most recent years, all stains and abstract brushstrokes are individual effects, which together end up showing a possible image, an abstract world that our brain, that is used to bringing everything into a tangible reality, makes very credible my spaces, my characters and themes that captivate me, of course this exalted with the magic that 3D offers us...."
RAFAEL ESPITIA
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"Before and After" version
RAFAEL ESPITIA ACRYLIC MURALS
RAFAEL ESPITIA CURRENT EXHIBITION
EXHIBITION "EARTH VORTICES" Castello Estense by Vivid Arts Network. May 12th 2012, Ferrara Italy
Espitia at ONCE Arts Gallery, Wynwood Jun 9th 2012. Miami, Florida
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Rafael Espitia in Magazine Covers
EL PLANETA Journal. May 2011,
Rafael Espitia, un artista de la luz
ESPITIA BOOK
ART OF MIAMI, Art site. Wynwood March 2012
"BEST OF WYNWOOD ART WALK MARCH 2012"
..."ONCE gallery had an interesting 3-D paintings by Miami-based artist Rafael Espitia. Even with out the 3-D glasses the art work has the illusion of dimension."
ARTEAMERICAS 2012
Miami Beach Convention Center March 2-5
THIS IS CARTAGENA, Cartagen de Indias Book
Ediciones Gamma.
Rafael Espitia Cartagena´s Artist
Grand Opening "ARC 20 de Julio" First Navy ship built entirely in Colombia.
Rafael ESpitia Artwork
February 3rd 2012. Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.
WYNWOOD during ARTBASEL, AREA 23 ART GALLERY
RAFAEL ESPITIA ARTWORK IN CHEPE FORTUNA TV SERIE, RCN CHANNEL
First Colombian artist commissioned by RCN Channel to make his artwork part of "Chepe Fortuna" tv serie scenery.
RAFAEL ESPITIA DIGITAL ARTWORK COMMISSION IN THE GRAND OPENING OF HOTEL LAS AMÉRICAS TORRE DEL MAR, Cartagena de Indias , June 4th 2011
Obra digital del Maestro Rafael Espitia serie Aqua realizada para cada habitación del hotel Las Américas Torre del Mar
Museum CASA GRAU "A 23 Artists Tribute to Maestro Enrique Grau". Bogota, Colombia.
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RAFAEL ESPITIA, CHILD PRODIGY (1981 a 1988)
A child prodigy who exhibits since he was 13 years old.
