Dominic Palazzolo
About:I am an Artist found by community. In my my most difficult time of need, when I felt I had nothing left, and was facing homelessness, I found that I was looking for community but, in reality community had already found me. Online in various parts of the country, and world, locally, especially in my home town, in the Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Community, the Art Scene, and Wyandotte's populace city and local. When I did not have resource, my Jiu Jitsu team waived tuition and allowed me to train and understood when I took a year off to pursue Art.
When my online, and local community found me needing help, I learned that I am blessed with abundant support from those that know me and my story. Being in my local art fair has been a childhood dream of mine and my dream came true last year and even more so this year. I am currently paying for it through my healthcare job. My dreams as a an Artist are growing, and I would be honored to get to know more of my community in the Art World. I believe Plymouth UnFAIR would be dream come true within itself.
Again my name is Dominic Palazzolo. I am building my brand Dominictheinsomniac. I appreciate and sincerely thank yous for the opportunity to introduce myself through this application.
What I love to create: I find a place to paint where I can set out multiple paintings to work on, and set out all my markers, and then I think without thinking, I grab colors and as a friend once called it, "Scribble," style, I use Copic and POSCA pens to create my paintings. My hand grabs color at random, but it's clear it has a balance, and pallet as time and the process of color unfolds. Heavy saturation. Toxic Like The Detroit River Baby took 4.5 months to color the blue background. I would say it is similar in some ways to tattoo design. I used to paint in high school with brushes, but, I took heavy damage to my pinky and ring finger in my drawing hand, and cannot hold a paint brush for long. My hands are unsteady. I haver always had an easier time with sketching in pencil and pen this paint brush, and found I could not hold one. Posca Markers gives me the precision I need to be able to create these images, I primarily use my wrist a shoulder.
I tend to to sketch in copic and add posca as I sketch it out. There is no mistakes because all my pieces are fluid. I like to watch my art piece evolve in real time. One moment I'm careful lining, the next im shaking and splattering paint onto the Art indifferent to where it lands. I do not have to mix color so looking at floristry and embroidery impact my color understanding.
My inspiration? Why I make? I like Art to feel like the magic of building a sand castle for the first time. My first time watching a sandcastle be made, it seemed like magic, and something that would take time to be able to do. The magic as a tiny child was that I to first time, could put water and sand together and have the magic hold of sand and water. I hope to achieve that feeling as I watch my process, and paint as I work on each piece. There is no true single piece in my art work, it's a body of process. More regularly I am inspired by the Detroit Artist Niagara who most likely does not know who I am...but my grandmother lived next store to this Pop Artist, and I got to see the studio, as a small kid. I also grew up loving anime and manga, with the 90s slide style animation. My color is also inspired by embroidery and floristry as how colors are placed together matter.
Georgia O'keeffe and her eye sight as she got older I think about a lot. I joked once call me Georgia O'Keeffe cause we have the same birthdate.
Really, though I draw everyday color pulls me in, I don't stop and if I do I itch to paint.
When my online, and local community found me needing help, I learned that I am blessed with abundant support from those that know me and my story. Being in my local art fair has been a childhood dream of mine and my dream came true last year and even more so this year. I am currently paying for it through my healthcare job. My dreams as a an Artist are growing, and I would be honored to get to know more of my community in the Art World. I believe Plymouth UnFAIR would be dream come true within itself.
Again my name is Dominic Palazzolo. I am building my brand Dominictheinsomniac. I appreciate and sincerely thank yous for the opportunity to introduce myself through this application.
What I love to create: I find a place to paint where I can set out multiple paintings to work on, and set out all my markers, and then I think without thinking, I grab colors and as a friend once called it, "Scribble," style, I use Copic and POSCA pens to create my paintings. My hand grabs color at random, but it's clear it has a balance, and pallet as time and the process of color unfolds. Heavy saturation. Toxic Like The Detroit River Baby took 4.5 months to color the blue background. I would say it is similar in some ways to tattoo design. I used to paint in high school with brushes, but, I took heavy damage to my pinky and ring finger in my drawing hand, and cannot hold a paint brush for long. My hands are unsteady. I haver always had an easier time with sketching in pencil and pen this paint brush, and found I could not hold one. Posca Markers gives me the precision I need to be able to create these images, I primarily use my wrist a shoulder.
I tend to to sketch in copic and add posca as I sketch it out. There is no mistakes because all my pieces are fluid. I like to watch my art piece evolve in real time. One moment I'm careful lining, the next im shaking and splattering paint onto the Art indifferent to where it lands. I do not have to mix color so looking at floristry and embroidery impact my color understanding.
My inspiration? Why I make? I like Art to feel like the magic of building a sand castle for the first time. My first time watching a sandcastle be made, it seemed like magic, and something that would take time to be able to do. The magic as a tiny child was that I to first time, could put water and sand together and have the magic hold of sand and water. I hope to achieve that feeling as I watch my process, and paint as I work on each piece. There is no true single piece in my art work, it's a body of process. More regularly I am inspired by the Detroit Artist Niagara who most likely does not know who I am...but my grandmother lived next store to this Pop Artist, and I got to see the studio, as a small kid. I also grew up loving anime and manga, with the 90s slide style animation. My color is also inspired by embroidery and floristry as how colors are placed together matter.
Georgia O'keeffe and her eye sight as she got older I think about a lot. I joked once call me Georgia O'Keeffe cause we have the same birthdate.
Really, though I draw everyday color pulls me in, I don't stop and if I do I itch to paint.
