Hello! My name is Vince, and I'm a Melbourne-based mixed medium visual artist with a focus on portraits and still life, and I utilise both dry and wet medium techniques. I have been capturing the essence of the facial expressions and mood of the portrait with my own artistic freedom since 2012, and have been a freelance portrait artist since then.
As much as I love experimenting and working with as many different mediums as I possibly can, the ones that I am most comfortable with are charcoal, coloured pencils, graphite, watercolour and oil paints. I am still working on my skills when it comes to soft pastels and acrylic paints, up til now.
I have exhibited some of my pieces and works in an art gallery back in the Philippines to get exposure, as well as I have done here in Australia, inclusively 2017-2018. Now I am focusing more on creating art content and pieces.
Portraiture and still life are the subjects I mostly focused on, as I love drawing and painting faces and capturing their expressions, thinking of it as a form of photography but using traditional art materials as the medium.
And as an artist, I take my inspiration from fellow creatives’ works and whatever I see around me, I see an expressive and aesthetic subject and I keep that in my head all day long until I draw it. It is quite important to stay inquisitive so the drive of learning and the flow of inspiration plus ideas keep coming.
More artwork by Vince Mariel
Oil painting of a girl in red cloak
Oil paint of a lady in black background
Watercolour painting of a bakeshop
Rose in coloured pencil
Henry portrait in graphite medium
Commissioned portrait of a couple in graphite medium