Friday, February 23, 2007

Previous works 1998 down to 1982

Here is a sample of AESastrias' works while she was a young artist at Uni to a mature age artist in Mexico and Australia.

This is the selection of her best works done during this timeframe


In the memory of Manuel Alvarez Bravo - "Torito"
Year: 1998
Acrylic on canvas
Size: 20 x 20 cm
Place: Sydney, Australia
Private Collection


In the memory of Manuel Alvarez Bravo "Dancer's Daughter"
Year: 1998
Drawing in Charcoal bar and charcoal pencil and Ink on Bag's brown paper
Size: 25 x 36 cm
Place: Sydney, Australia
Private Collection


Dreams of a Siren
Year: 1994
Watercolour
Size: 54 x 64 cm
Place: Mexico
Private Collection

Exhibitions: Casa de la Acuarela, Coyoacan, Mexico


Two little ballerinas tiding laces
Year: 1993
Drawing in Pastel chalks
Size: 50 x 45 cm
Price: $ 250.00

Exhibitions: "St Margaret Piazza Open Market", Surry Hills
"Nepean Art Society, Art Show"


Little ballerina
Year: 1992
Drawing in Sanguina Pencil
Size: 50 x 45 cm
Price: $ 200.00

Exhibitions: "St Margaret's Piazza Open Market" Surry Hills
"Nepean Art Society, Art Show"


Nude in Pink and Blue
Year: 1991
Watercolour
Size: 65 x 55 cm
Place: Mexico
Price: $ 300.00


Woman Posing
Year: 1991
Drawing in Graphitte Pencil
Size: 37 x 50 cm
Place: Mexico
Price: $ 220.00

Exhibitions: "Illustration Show" at the Blaxland Bar, Katoomba


Sleeping woman
Year: 1991
Drawing in Charcoal Pencil and Pastels
Size: 59 x 46 cm
Place: Mexico
Price: $ 240.00

Exhibitions: "Illustrators Show" at the Blaxland Bar, Katoomba


Growing Roots
Year: 1988
Oil on canvas
Size: 87 x 106 cm
Place: Mexico
Price: $ 1500.00

Exhibitions: Originally submitted for an Art Prize in Mexico City in 1988. Then, exhibited "Summer Moments" at ArtMoment Gallery, Bondi Beach.


Boy seated at the Dining Table
Year: 1986
Oil on canvas
Size: 31 x 35.5 cm
Place: Mexico

Private Collection


Original work of Greek woman with the white napkin
Year: 1985
Oil on canvas
Size: 31 x 35.5 cm
Place: Mexico

Private Collection


Fisherman with woman
Year: 1983
Oil on canvas
Size: 70 x 90 cm
Place: Mexico

Private Collection

Three Ages
Year: 1982
Oil on canvas
Size: 63 x 45 cm
Place: Mexico

Private Collection

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Small format art - animals


"Mexican rabbit with pickle fruit cactus"
Private Collection: Familia Morales


"Mexican poppy flowers"
Private collection


"Yellow badgery"
Price: $ 120.00
Exhibitions: TAP Gallery 18th Anniversary Group Exhibition 18 June 2007 - 1st August 2007



"Red fly catcher and flower"
Price: $ 120.00
Exhibitions: TAP Gallery 18th Anniversary Group Exhibition 18 June 2007 - 1st August 2007


"Blue butterfly with white flowers"
Private collection


"Green badgery"
Price: $ 120.00
Exhibitions: TAP Gallery 18th Anniversary Group Exhibition 18 June 2007 - 1st August 2007


"Blue badgery"
Price: $ 120.00
Exhibitions: TAP Gallery 18th Anniversary Group Exhibition 18 June 2007 - 1st August 2007

Figurative and Nudes



“Vision with a view to the ocean”
Oil on canvas 102 x 102 cm
Year 2007
Price: $ 1500.00
Exhibition at WizardZone (only in the Night with the Artist Show)


"Surrounded by flowers"
Year: 2007
Oil on canvas
Size: 90 x 65 cm
Exhibition at WizardZone from the 6th of May until the 1st of July 2007
Live, Love and Hope Fundraising event 31st of July, 2008
AUCTIONED!



"Adam and Eve different story"
Year: 2007
Oil on canvas
Size: 70 x 70 cm
Price: $ 650.00
Exhibition at WizardZone from the 6th of May until the 1st of July



"Nude resting at the edge of the water"
Year: 2006
Oil on canvas
Size: 122 x 92 cm
Price: $ 1500.00
Exhibition at WizardZone (only in the Night with the Artist Show)


left side and right side of the board: (problem displaying right side colours)
Board for the "Dreamscape Newtown Festival"
Public Art
Exhibition: at the Newtown Arts Centre Plaza
(12/11/2006)


















"Woman in pink"
Year: 2006
Acrylic/Oil on canvas
Size: 50 x 50 cm
Price $ 300.00 SOLD !!
Exhibitions: St Margaret Piazza Open Market
WizardZone from the 6th of May until the 1st of July

Portfolio - Portrait



"David Bowie - Portrait"

Year: 2006

Acrylic / Oil on canvas

Size: 50 x 75 cm

Price: $ 800.00

This portrait is based on a BW photo from Black and White magazine.

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Portfolio - Homage to Manuel Alvarez Bravo




"Woman brushing her hair"
Year: 2006
Oil on canvas
Size: 20x 20 cm

Exhibitions: TAP Gallery 18th Anniversary Group Exhibition 18 June 2007 - 1st August 2007;
St Margarets Piazza Open Market and Nepean Art Society Art Show

Price: $ 200.00



"Working Class men dining"
Year: 2006
Acrylic on canvas
Size: 20 x20 cm

Exhibitions: TAP Gallery 18th Anniversary Group Exhibition 18 June 2007 - 1st August 2007
St Margarets Piazza Open Market


Price: $ 160.00








"Daydreaming girl"
Year: 2006
Acrylic on canvas
Size: 20 x 20 cm

Exhibitions: TAP Gallery 18th Anniversary Group Exhibition 18 June 2007 - 1st August 2007;
St Margaret Piazza Open Market and Nepean Art Society Art Show


Price: $ 160.00







" The daughter of the dancer"
Year: 2006
Acrylic on canvas
Size: 20 x 20 cm

Exhibitions:TAP Gallery 18th Anniversary Group Exhibition 18 June 2007 - 1st August 2007;
St Margaret Piazza Open Market and Nepean Art Society Art Show


Price: $ 160.00







"dog, girl and bull"
Year: 2006
Oil on canvas
Size: 45 x 45 cm

Exhibitions: Auctioned, funds went to a Wellfair Organisation
Blaxland Bar, St Margaret Piazza Open Market and Nepean Art Society Art Show

Price: $ 300.00 AUCTIONED!!







"Collage"
Year: 2001
Acrylic on canvas
Size: 76 x 85 cm

Price: $ 500.00





These paintings are inspired by the work of the famous mexican photographer Manuel Alvarez Bravo (1939 - 1949).

Portfolio - Landscapes

"Down Under Reflected Landscape"
Year: 2006
Oil on canvas
Size: 75 x 75 cm

Price: $ 600.00

Exhibitions: 1. "Nature's Moments" - ArtMoment Gallery (8/11/2006)

"WA Aerial Landscape"

Year: 2006
Oil on canvas
Size: 85 x 60 cm

Work submitted to participate in the Australian Landscapes Paddington Art Prize (14/11/2006)

Price: $ 600.00

"Bushwalking in the fog"
Year: 2006
Oil on canvas
Size: 60 x 40 cm

Price: $ 400.00

or

See Gallery Front website to purchase online.



























































































AESastrias Art



AESastrias is the artistic name of Ana E Sastrias. She was born in Mexico City in 1962 and migrated to Sydney Australia in 1996. Her professional background is in Computing Engineering, but she has always displayed a great ability for visual arts and started taking visual arts lessons since she was 11 years old with renowned teachers like Laura Elenes, back in Mexico.

Here in Sydney, she has taken some courses like: Picture Framing, Children's Book Illustration, Graphic Design, Dreamweaver, Certificate II in Graphics and Printing (Desktop Publishing).
Just recently, after living in Australia for 10 years, she has decided to dedicate more time to the Art and start building her career as an emerging artist.

She has already participated in group exhibitions and has done some commission work.

Her work is mainly figurative and has a preference for Nudes or Human bodies and the environment that surrounds them. Recently she has started doing more landscapes and flowers and animals like birds and rabbits.

She can accept commission work for:
- Portraits
- Decorative painting
- Nudes (drawing or painting)
- Book Illustrations
- Desktop Publishing Graphic Design (business cards, posters, T- Shirts)
- Website templates

You can post a photo or idea for a very special painting or drawing to: ana.sastrias@myartsmail.com

IF YOU NEED TO USE AESastrias artwork images for promotion, advertising and commercialisation, please refer your request to VISCOPY for copyright licence protection.

You can see AESastrias Portfolio in the next links:

Landscapes

Homage to Mexican Photographer Manuel Alvarez Bravo