Albert Serino Biography
Albert Al Serino is a visual artist from Brooklyn working mainly with watercolors but also acrylic, oil, and mixed media. He likes to experiment with textures and colors. His work includes a lot of beaches and nature-related paintings. Albert tends to have different styles, modern, traditional, contemporary, naïve and colorful. He works a lot with complementary colors like green and red, blue and orange, or yellow and violet. He also loves bright colors. Modern acrylic paint is so suited to his love of vibrant color which is applied thickly from the tube so the huge range of colors is a bonus.
The Early Beginnings
Albert Serino cannot remember a time in his life when he did not think of himself as an artist. As a child, he was always drawing and painting. Art is just what he is, so he cannot claim to have made a conscious decision to be an artist.
Throughout his life, Albert always had a pencil in his hand. Drawing was his favorite way to communicate. At the age of eight, he asked his parents if he could attend art school instead of public education, showing them some of his best works. His parents said art was a wonderful hobby, but not a career. Albert disagreed. As an adult, he went on to Art College.
The Artist in the Studio
In the studio Albert Serino enjoys experimentation. His preference is to paint outside, being part of the landscape and being influenced by the colors, tones, and textures. The paint is applied in bold, gestural strokes, either with a brush or painting knife, often on top of color which has been thrown at the canvas and brings unity to the painting.
Albert’s current studio is located on the outskirts of the city, somewhere nice and cozy. There is a big window that allows sunlight to enter his working area. It really helps especially when he does the coloring process of his works. Albert has been working here for over seven years. He paints almost every day, usually from the morning until the afternoon. When he is not in the mood to paint, he often does paper drawings for some kind of remedy.
Albert Serino’s Artistic Process
Creative expression is playful, liberating, and fun. Albert experiments constantly with different styles, materials, and sizes. Yes, he accepts commissions, but only when there is a loose brief, like keywords, because too many restrictions stifle creativity.
For Albert, it all starts with the message that he wants to convey. The ideas usually come up in an unexpected manner; so he always brings a small sketchbook for note-taking or rough sketching. After deciding on which message he wants to dig deeper into, he moves on to more serious sketches. If it is a painting that he is making, then he picks the best sketch and moves them to the canvas using grids. Albert spends between a week to two months finishing a work, depending on the size and the medium.