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Translation :
Daniel Serrano
I'll start saying that I was born in
19th august in 1962. I started in
the hobby in early ages because I
lived with my grandparents and my
grandfather was a fan of building
wood kits of ships so I spent a lot
of time wathing him. Finally it was
my father who got me into the hobby
because he bought me airplane kits
(Frog, Airfix and those bags of
figures, tanks and planes from Monta
Plex).
At
the beginning I just built them
without painting but lately I met a
friend of mine (Alfonso Cuadrado)
and he taught me to paint with
ennamels.
The figures were just mere
complements for the final view of my
works and I started to feel that I
needed to improve the painting of
those figures as I wanted to improve
the quality of my scale models.
But i was being cautivated by the
figures to the point of spend my
time exclusively painting them. One
good day a friend came to my house
and when He saw my planes and
figures he thought they were so good
he wanted me to meet Javier
Barrientos, who taught me the
painting with acrylics and gave me
my first commissions. That's when it
started my professional career as
figure painter, in 1994.
The beginning was hard because it's
though to earn enought to eat, days
of 12 hours of painting, 7 days a
week... I wouldn't have resisted
this situation withouth the
inconditional support of my wife,
Mar, and my fanatic love for
miniatures.
Some time later I started to
colaborate with Andrea Miniatures (i
want to greet Fernando Andrea "San",
the one who taught me better about
what is a figure and probably one of
the best modelers in history but
sadly not very much known because he
works in the shadow and he doesn't
like to be famous. Thanks San) where
I became the official painter for
the brand for about 4 years. After
that time I decide to leave Andrea
and start on my own.
I
assisted to international shows like
Folkestone, Paris, Sevres... getting
some awards. I also write articles
for great magazines like
EuroModelismo and EuroFigures,
Figurines and Military Modelling,
where I have some covers. I've been
jury in some shows like World Expo
in Paris, Val de Aosta and
Fuengirola, this one is in Holy Week
and is organized by some of my
closest friends like José Francisco
“Kiko” owner of the best specialized
shop in the south of Spain, Raúl
García Latorre and many other
friends.
I
paint basically with acrylics, with
highlights and shadows, like the
most part of the spanish painters,
and using the zenital light
technique. I use a 100w white light
bulb, Davinci brushes #1 and #2,
thanks to my friens Jaime Cadavieco,
another spanish-french painter.
I
use to work listening to the radio
and music sometimes. My favourite
subject is World War II but due to
my job I've painted napoleonics,
medieval...
My
favourite scale is 70mm without a
doubt because it's not so small as a
54mm and not so big as a 90mm and it
can reach great details.
My
favourite painters and the ones who
have been a great influence for me
are: Rodrigo Hernández Chacón, Raúl
García Latorre (the most complete
because he sculpts great and he's
helped me a lot at the beginning as
independent painter), I also
appreciate the works of Luis Gómez
Platón with who I share some kind of
style points, of course David Romero
who's a friend too and he's the head
of the new blood as the Gros
Mascarilla brothers, I want to
mention too Gamarra for his great
work and for being the first spanish
painter who showed the spanish art
in european and norhtamerican shows.
I don't want to forget to mention
Gallardo who's a great painter and a
very active person in this our
world.
Talking about sculptors, Raul,
Fernando Andrea, and foreigners as
Stefano Cannone, Adriano Laruccia
and the elegant Bruno Leivobitz.
I
want to say sorry to all of those I
didn't mention because the lack of
time and space because the list
would be endless.
Lately i'm startint to focus on
civil miniatures like cars and
motorbikes because the need of
having a hobby different from
painting figures because that's my
real job.
I
want to say that I accept
commissions for every kind of scales
in figures and kits (contact phone
91 6126395, from 9:00 to 16:00).
Finally, I want to greet Pablo Roig
and Luis Gómez Platón for giving me
the opportunity to be in this
webpages.
Regards,
Fidel
Vistas generlas del Área de Trabajo
de Fidel Rincon.
Gallery
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