Joseph Verdejo

Born in Valencia, Spain, 1943. Started painting oils at age 6. Entered and won my first competition at age 9. Married in London to my British wife. Lived in Alicante, Spain where I continued painting. Moved to the USA in 1981 with my family. I have had a successful career in investment real estate brokerage but continued painting on and off until now, when I paint every day. Now I am retired and completely focused on painting.

Started painting at age 12 with a professional artist, a neighbor. Studied piano, harmony, and composition at the Valencia Conservatory. Went to college in Valencia and Madrid where I completed my masters in Agronomy and Business Admon.

I have always been interested in drawing and painting and, after having worked with oils and pastels, now I am totally focused on gouache, brilliant colors, and striking color combinations. Being retired I can finally be totally dedicated to creating better and better art.

When I am painting I am not trying to reproduce a beautiful natural scenery or the corresponding beautiful photograph, I am just trying to create a thing of beauty that resembles or reminisce of a person or a landscape. I look at color harmony through music harmony. I believe that a painter should start with only three colors, thus setting the scale. Then by mixing these three colors he/she establishes his on color "scale." All different tones should be made by mixing these three colors in different proportions. Adding any other color outside these three will produce colors that do not belong in this "scale."
Black color should be avoided.
Every scale, like in music, has its own set of colors (notes). Instruments with f...