A Lenda de Iara - the Iara Legend Painting

My name is Aldo Camargo and I'm in Brazil, which is in South America. I currently work in my country producing art for sale of copies in high quality prints with specialized companies, however I rarely sell my original studies and final paintings, I intend to make a philanthropic donation of these originals in the future to cultural institutions in my country. I am self-taught, but my artistic career has more than twenty years of practical experience and a lot of study. My art is of an old and academic style, I mainly like the Italian Renaissance and the Dutch Baroque, and I am inspired by them. I read many period books available on the web to not only be inspired by the theme, but also to capture the spirit of the time, so my work differs from many current artists who have prolific production, where some works of mine usually take months of: preparation, execution and completion. I spend a lot of time on design and details so that my work speaks to people's hearts and I will never produce garbage and try to sell it as art, a closer look at the canvas reveals: the density of the textures, the layers and the infinity of brushstrokes with a very small brush and short, precise strokes to bring out all the details. I love indigenous themes and also more classical painting techniques, seeking to unite in balance between the themes; I also try to study different subjects besides art, trying to possess as in the past the renaissance mind of the universal man, such as: history, geography, theology, folklore, ethnography, sciences, philosophy, among others... I work with all art materials and only selected with good quality and pure pigments, I try to study and master not only the technique but also the materials, thus, execution and technique motivate my art to be similar to that of museums. I work in the most different techniques, the main ones being: oil painting, oil pastels, digital art and professional colored pencils, where I try to use a large number of colors to enrich the vitality of a work, differentiating it from a print that only uses combination. three-color (RGB).