Alvaro Silva

I was born in Brasília (Brazil) in 1961 and have always painted and drawn since I was a child. Self-taught by nature, I always look for information about drawing and painting techniques and I enjoyed the artistic productions of other artists in the most diverse times and styles of Universal Artistic History. Son of a pianist, dancer, poet, draftsman and painter mother, I had in my heredity not only a motive, but the natural consanguineous impetus for the arts.

My father, a naval officer, bequeathed me his love for the sea and for designing and building boats. I unite the two passions: the plastic arts and shipbuilding, in a single activity: naval modeling; During 18 years of my life I produced, to order, naval models of the highest realism and precision. There were sailboats and boats, historic ships, fictional vessels and restorations that really described all the love and feeling put into the works.

In the 1980s, I produced drawings and paintings that were sold, and not documented, except for the last drawing - Fazenda Mineira - dated 1986, when I was already married.

From 1984 to 2016, I was able to work in the naval area as a designer of naval structures, an activity in whic...

-Technical in naval structures design graduated from the Technical School of the Navy Arsenal of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) since 1984.
The knowledge of the design process of the shapes of a vessel allows me to create and materialize in a judicious way a huge number of types of artistic structures with any type of material, texture and complexity.
-Architecture and Urbanism from 1985 to 1987. Training in subjects related to aesthetics, art history, artistic, architectural and plastic drawings.
-Experience in graphic programs such as Rhinocerus, AutoCad, Microstation, Tribon, Aveva Marine, Fusion 360 that allow me to create complex shapes, sculptures and artistic structures with any type of material, texture and complexity.
-Course of SolidWorks, Maya, Zbrush programs, for the creation of sculptures, 3D character models, realistic environments, etc.
-Improved "hull design" at Kawazaki in Japan in 2014, which allows me to create, design and build artistic structures and sculptures in steel or aluminum of any size and a multitude of shapes.
Civil engineering, mechanics and physics courses, unfinished.