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Mihai

They say that if you want to learn to be a great artist, you need to copy the masters. Of course, that’s total non-sense, we all know that. You are a great artist when you can improve on the masters’ work!

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Acrylic painting based on “The Scream” by Edvard Munch, with the main character being the severely depressed robot Marvin from the Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. The depiction of Marvin is based on the 2005 movie that based on the book.

January 11, 2026 at 10:13 AM

Mihai

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Study of perspective. I’ve noticed the Pareto principle at work: the last 80% of the work took the last 20% of the time. Which means that I lost the first 80% of the time doing only 20% of the work - that is mildly demotivating, especially with large paintings 😄

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Monochrome acrylic painting of an isolated bicycle and it’s rider in motion, viewed from the ground level looking upwards, thus distorting the view. The background is white and there are a few brush strokes to depict movement

January 4, 2026 at 8:29 PM

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I’ve been working for the past weeks on a commission. I’m happy with the concept, but disappointed with the brushwork. The client was ecstatic and I was moved when I saw that they hanged it in their living room the next day. Will not be taking commissions for a while

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Large painting of a tree that’s changing with the seasons, symbolising life cycle, the process of change.

December 21, 2025 at 7:15 PM

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Faffing about

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Picture of a kitten sitting on its bum and yawning heavily with the head facing the viewer. The yawn can be interpreted as a laughter or as a scream, too.

November 20, 2025 at 9:51 PM

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Here’s a painting with multiple meanings; I’ll let you decipher what it means to you 😃

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Acrylic painting in impressionist style depicting a man falling on his back, with legs and arms upwards, blurred due to the speed. Could be jumping on a trampoline, or falling from a ladder.

October 3, 2025 at 5:51 PM

Mihai

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Ok, no more excuses: need to get back to painting. Went yesterday to a painting course/group and, boy, felt so good to mess with paint just for fun!

I’m grateful my customers have been patient and understanding recently, but I do feel I let them down.

Acrylic painting divided in 4 sections, showing detailed representations of close-ups from a photograph

September 5, 2025 at 6:25 AM

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Finished. The friend loved it and I loved her reaction. We argued about signing the painting though. I don’t normally sign my paintings, but I seem to get more and more requests to do so…

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Painting of a cat, in an soft impressionist style.

July 27, 2025 at 7:25 PM

Mihai

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Next commission… 😥

A large blank canvas barely fitting the easel and the room.

July 6, 2025 at 10:09 AM

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Got yesterday two Ampersand gessoboards; what a fantastic medium for painting! Worth the price. So I tested them by making her and his inner children.

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July 2, 2025 at 12:23 PM

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The idea and the design are not mine, I copied them from the internet. I was moved by the simplicity of the image as well as its message. We carry inside us our younger selves that we do not honour as much as we those younger selves deserve.

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Simple painting showing the figure of an adult sitting on a small chair, with a boy figure sitting on the same spot. The concept is that of an inner child, a little person that we carry inside us and that we need to take care of

June 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM

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Vacation time! Found a store with art supplies while on the island and went bonkers.

June 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM

Mihai

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Now that I’m more settled in my new house, I restarted painting. Sadly, a friend’s beloved pet passed away recently and she was deeply affected. I hope a painting of the cat will give my friend a way to cherish her memories. (WIP)

Acrylic painting of a cat setting upright and looking at the viewer.

May 30, 2025 at 6:43 AM

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Aaaaand finished! I think… I hope the sellers of the house will like it and will remind them of the good conversations over coffee in their soon to be former garden.

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Painting depicting two garden chairs and a table between flowering plants and trees, with a shed in the background.

April 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM

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I will receive the keys to my new place in a few days. The sellers told me they will miss the garden a lot, so I will make a painting of the garden for them; not a photo in the cloud, but a painting on the wall. (Work in progress)

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Early stages of a painting of a garden, showing two garden chairs and a table in classical style, a few bushes and trees, a wire fence and a shed behind the fence.

April 3, 2025 at 8:28 PM

Mihai

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I have ideas and I have a client begging for paintings, but I feel stuck; 2 very long weeks until I get the keys of my new house+studio. I just fooled around for an hour every now and then, practicing and learning (light and shadows, test of soft blending acrylic paint)

Painting depicting a vase and a decorative object with light coming from top right and showing the interaction between shadows and highlights.

Painting canvas showing soft blending from bright red to bright yellow

March 29, 2025 at 7:17 AM

Mihai

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I want to paint more often, yet I feel resistance. In a month I’ll get the keys to my new house and one room will be turned into a studio - excited, but it will be a very long month… 😅 31 days!

In the mean time, here’s a painting I made yesterday.

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Painting depicting a human head with exaggerated shapes and large earrings.

March 14, 2025 at 11:59 AM

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It’s almost finished; the eyes need some sparkle. Since last time, I only re-worked the eyes, the mouth, the nose and the hair. Oh, and the neck. It would have been easier to say “I kept only the left ear as is”, but that would have been a very short post 😅

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High-contrast monochromatic (red) portrait of a woman

March 2, 2025 at 4:50 PM

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One more miniature painting.

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Miniature painting of a fox/wolf, minimalist style, monochrome.

February 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM

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I think I’ll leave it as it is.

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Painting of a curled up fox with one eye open, sleeping in grass.

February 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM

Mihai

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Another work in progress. I don’t know how other artists work, but I feel dread and overwhelmed when I set out to start a new painting, yet one hour later I’m so excited that you need to drag me away from the canvas by force, otherwise I won’t even drink a glass of water.

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Painting of a curled up fox with only on of its eyes visible, on a generic light blue background.

February 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM

Mihai

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Work in progress - unfinished underpainting for a portrait of a woman. It’s nuts how much energy I get after one hour of painting, seeing the painted shapes coming together to form a painting. “Oh, here a bit more, and there, and this, ah forgot that!”

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