Dorin Popa

My name is Dorin Popa, a romanian artist based in Bucharest Romania, mostly painting in oil, in a figurative-realism manner with a touch of impressionism.

Not having part of a formal artistic education, I picked up pencil seriously in 2010, when I was living in Reading, UK.
Attending couple of artistic groups in Reading between 2010-2013(SketchPad, Rising Sun - Life Drawing class, Remenham Portrait Group), I am mostly self-thought artist.
Being a software engineers for 20+ years, I approached drawing and painting in a very systematic manner. I have not touched colors, until I spent enough time understanding
drawing insights, proportions, perspective, volumes and tones which to me are the intrisic skeleton of a good painting.
After completed "Cours de dessin" by Charles Bargue which took me an year to finish and after copying masters for another one, I started to tackle colors, watercolor at first,
then acrylics and finally, few years ago, experimenting oil painting where I settled.