Sylvia Pekarek
My Art work
was featured in the
Art Creations Magazine
was featured in the
Art Creations Magazine
My Art was featured in the
Art Creations Magazine
Photography
by Alex Lanier
(Book) in Arts & Photography
Art Creations Magazine : In this issue ACM features some of the world’s best new and seasoned talent with interviews, profiles, and images of their work. Laniercreations ...
More info.
Art Creations Magazine
Photography
by Alex Lanier
(Book) in Arts & Photography
Art Creations Magazine : In this issue ACM features some of the world’s best new and seasoned talent with interviews, profiles, and images of their work. Laniercreations ...
More info.
My Art work
was featured in the
"Artists Diary"
was featured in the
"Artists Diary"
Artist Story: Sylvia Pekarek
I first realized that creating Art was embedded in the depths of my soul was when I was in the first grade, because I would arrive early to class just to fill the chalk board with my Art. I felt this was my way of observing the world and expressing my thoughts. I found Art to be my answer... Later on I attended San Francisco Academy of Art University, I studied and majored in Graphic Design, along with fine art classes. My career in the Arts included teaching painting, drawing, 3d art, ceramics, and various arts and crafts classes. I was featured in the San Mateo paper as one of the lead teachers in the City Art program. One of the most rewarding moments in my life is seeing my students arrive early to class, (as I once did) with the sheer excitement and joy to work on "their Art."
I can remember when I was seven, attending a ceramic class and loving the whole idea of being part of a creative class. I believe the greatest visionaries show strength through their creative imagination process, this alone is so powerful. My personal view is that Art is the truest and purest form of communication. This process sets forth a clear translation of the "observation of the world." I aspire my Art work to be spontaneous, momentous & dynamic, infused with the passion I have for life. I like to use mix media to bring forth the complexity of life's profound moments. I believe this helps bring depth into my work. At times I may start a painting, or sketch and then capture it into my computer to enhance it digitally. I am part of the "digital generation," it swims in my veins... I am like the pianist who uses the piano, to create music. I play the computer like an instrument and let the creativity flow as I work. I also love feeling the brush in my hand, stroking the canvas with pigments, I will never abandon that process completely. The computer allows my flurry thoughts to bring forth directness of intent, much more rapidly, capturing the moment.
My design featured
Core77 / Industrial Design Magazine
In San Mateo, &
San Francisco Paper
Art Related Projects
Recent review on my artwork:
Written by -Naval Langa
PAINTINGS GALLERIES
Painting, sold. Selling prints.
Painting Emotions and Writing a Story Theme: Painting Emotions. Paintings of Literary Characters. The Phantom -by Sylvia Pekarek Acrylic 18 x 24 Portraying of the emotions on canvas has always been a challenge for the clan of artists. But the artists crave to do that difficult job. The art work, a painting or a sculpture is a record of what an artist feels. Such recording of the feeling is named sometimes as ‘movement of the soul’, too. And if you want to see such a ‘movement of a soul’, then the collection of paintings by Sylvia Pekarek, living in the city of Novato in California, is the most proper destination. Her visual images, the paintings, are bound to create a crowd of emotional responses among viewers.
The philosophers of the world and the artists of all the genres believed that art must tell a story. They believe that an artwork must have some significant meaning. Here in the above painting The Phantom, the artist Sylvia Pekarek has injected such a meaning. In this painting she has painted the face of a literary character, Phantom. Here Sylvia has used all the artistic materials to express the feeling that the character Phantom wears on his face. If we look closely at the painting, we can observe that much care is taken in drawing and painting the eyes. Moreover the artful use of colors, lines, and the painting of tilted face is a strong evidence of the artist’s painting skill. The story of Phantom revolves around the strength of true love prevailing over wrongful dominance or undue control exercised by individuals or the society as a whole. The flat-looking face of Phantom, having no creases on it, the use of limited palate, and absence of any hair on the face (not even eye brow or eyelashes) may not put this artwork among the company of the faces painted with these details. But here the artist has one key word in her mind: the emotions. And she had poured in the whole stock of emotions in the eyes of Phantom. A painting can tell us a story of depict an idea. But for the artists if is important to show the element of art, the element that stirs emotions and expresses the feelings.
When I had asked Sylvia that from where you got the inspiration to paint such an emotionally charged painting, this was her answer: I was so moved by the tragic love story of the Phantom of the Opera; it was such a beautiful and poignant movie. The movie had this message of such intense vulnerability and the fragility of human existence, for the need to love and be loved. I was so overcome by this sad ending, I wanted to pour it out in this artwork I created, to release these projected emotions.
I first realized that creating Art was embedded in the depths of my soul was when I was in the first grade, because I would arrive early to class just to fill the chalk board with my Art. I felt this was my way of observing the world and expressing my thoughts. I found Art to be my answer... Later on I attended San Francisco Academy of Art University, I studied and majored in Graphic Design, along with fine art classes. My career in the Arts included teaching painting, drawing, 3d art, ceramics, and various arts and crafts classes. I was featured in the San Mateo paper as one of the lead teachers in the City Art program. One of the most rewarding moments in my life is seeing my students arrive early to class, (as I once did) with the sheer excitement and joy to work on "their Art."
I can remember when I was seven, attending a ceramic class and loving the whole idea of being part of a creative class. I believe the greatest visionaries show strength through their creative imagination process, this alone is so powerful. My personal view is that Art is the truest and purest form of communication. This process sets forth a clear translation of the "observation of the world." I aspire my Art work to be spontaneous, momentous & dynamic, infused with the passion I have for life. I like to use mix media to bring forth the complexity of life's profound moments. I believe this helps bring depth into my work. At times I may start a painting, or sketch and then capture it into my computer to enhance it digitally. I am part of the "digital generation," it swims in my veins... I am like the pianist who uses the piano, to create music. I play the computer like an instrument and let the creativity flow as I work. I also love feeling the brush in my hand, stroking the canvas with pigments, I will never abandon that process completely. The computer allows my flurry thoughts to bring forth directness of intent, much more rapidly, capturing the moment.
My design featured
Core77 / Industrial Design Magazine
In San Mateo, &
San Francisco Paper
Art Related Projects
Recent review on my artwork:
Written by -Naval Langa
PAINTINGS GALLERIES
Painting, sold. Selling prints.
Painting Emotions and Writing a Story Theme: Painting Emotions. Paintings of Literary Characters. The Phantom -by Sylvia Pekarek Acrylic 18 x 24 Portraying of the emotions on canvas has always been a challenge for the clan of artists. But the artists crave to do that difficult job. The art work, a painting or a sculpture is a record of what an artist feels. Such recording of the feeling is named sometimes as ‘movement of the soul’, too. And if you want to see such a ‘movement of a soul’, then the collection of paintings by Sylvia Pekarek, living in the city of Novato in California, is the most proper destination. Her visual images, the paintings, are bound to create a crowd of emotional responses among viewers.
The philosophers of the world and the artists of all the genres believed that art must tell a story. They believe that an artwork must have some significant meaning. Here in the above painting The Phantom, the artist Sylvia Pekarek has injected such a meaning. In this painting she has painted the face of a literary character, Phantom. Here Sylvia has used all the artistic materials to express the feeling that the character Phantom wears on his face. If we look closely at the painting, we can observe that much care is taken in drawing and painting the eyes. Moreover the artful use of colors, lines, and the painting of tilted face is a strong evidence of the artist’s painting skill. The story of Phantom revolves around the strength of true love prevailing over wrongful dominance or undue control exercised by individuals or the society as a whole. The flat-looking face of Phantom, having no creases on it, the use of limited palate, and absence of any hair on the face (not even eye brow or eyelashes) may not put this artwork among the company of the faces painted with these details. But here the artist has one key word in her mind: the emotions. And she had poured in the whole stock of emotions in the eyes of Phantom. A painting can tell us a story of depict an idea. But for the artists if is important to show the element of art, the element that stirs emotions and expresses the feelings.
When I had asked Sylvia that from where you got the inspiration to paint such an emotionally charged painting, this was her answer: I was so moved by the tragic love story of the Phantom of the Opera; it was such a beautiful and poignant movie. The movie had this message of such intense vulnerability and the fragility of human existence, for the need to love and be loved. I was so overcome by this sad ending, I wanted to pour it out in this artwork I created, to release these projected emotions.