Zdeněk Ozzy Chlumecký
Česká republika 🇨🇿
I started drawing when I was just a little boy, around the age of eight. I first encountered the technique of painting with oil paints on canvas when I was twenty. That’s when I realized that this was the path I wanted to follow and the art I wanted to create.
More than thirty years have passed since then, and canvas and oil paints have remained an inseparable part of my life. You could say that I can no longer imagine my life without painting.
In my early days, the brilliant painter Salvador Dalí was a great inspiration to me. His precise, sophisticated, and fascinating ability to capture both the whole and the finest details completely captivated me. Inspired by his work, I devoted myself to surrealist-realist painting, creating works such as Analytical Geometry, For a Friend, Point of View, Stairs to Heaven with Robert Plant, and Chess.
Later, this period gave way to the WPAP (Wedha Pop Art Portrait) technique, created by Wedha Abdul Rasyid in 1990. As a former graphic designer, I was immediately captivated by the combination of oil painting with geometric shapes and contrasting colors. The resulting painting retains the clear likeness of the original, yet takes on a completely new, distinctive character.
If a client requests a portrait of a well-known figure from the worlds of music, film, or politics, I use available reference images as a basis. For private portraits, however, the process is much more personal. First, I prepare a digital sketch on the computer, where I create the composition and the foundation for the painting itself. It often takes many hours of work before I can sit down at the canvas and begin painting.
Because there is still a part of me that is a classical artist who enjoys working with proportions, light, shadows, and contours, I add realistic elements closely tied to the subject to some of my paintings. I’ve named this original technique WPAP-R (Wedha Pop Art Portrait Realism).
In addition to paintings on canvas, I also enjoy painting backdrops on wooden panels and murals, where I work primarily with acrylic paints.
Today, I devote myself almost exclusively to painting. It is a process that fulfills me, gives me a sense of purpose, and constantly inspires me to seek new ways to capture emotions, thoughts, and stories through colors and shapes.
