Augusto Sandroni Art

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  • Niki Lauda is in the house

    abstract painting resembling a racing driver helmet with lettering "parmalat", "NIKI LAUDA", signed A.S. 2024
    Untitled (Niki Lauda) Acrylic on Canvas, 48 x 36, 2025

    As a young boy, I watched the horrific crash in the Nurburgring race track in Germany as it happened, live, on TV during the German GP of 1976.

    Niki Lauda was the top Ferrari driver at that time, the reigning Formula 1 world champion.

    The notoriously dangerous track was wet since it had been raining. Lauda’s Ferrari lost control, spun, hit the side rail and back to the track in flames and ended up getting hit by other cars unable to avoid him.

    The sheer size of the circuit also meant that weather and track conditions around it could vary wildly with some sections dry and others wet, making a safe choice of tyres difficult or impossible.

    He was seriously burned, but survived the accident and resumed racing that same year, once he recovered from his injuries.

    This was the second tribute to a racing driver painting I made these past few weeks.

  • A Drawing After Garden Designed by Roberto Burle Marx

    color pencil drawing of a tropical garden with a pond, guard rail in the foreground, three palm trees on the center top, a light fixture in the bottom left.
    Untitled ( Burle Marx No Shopping )
    Pencil on Paper, 10 x 7 in, 2023

    According to an architect friend, world famous Brazilian landscape designer Roberto Burle Marx created the garden depicted in this drawing. The garden is located inside a nondescript shopping mall in a small town in the interior of São Paulo state.

    I had been visiting Brazil a few years back, and I headed to the mall to check out their bookstore.

    When I came across the garden it had just finished raining. The mall’s roof had openings above the garden, and you could feel nature inside the building.

    This is not by any means a glamorous Roberto Burle Marx project. It resides in a humble location, but that is what makes it so special.

  • The Alexanders Still Life

    image of three paintings hanging on a wall
    Left: Untitled (Blu) Oil on canvas, 2017 Middle: Untitled ( Alexanders still life ) Right: Untitled ( Pink Tulip ) Oil on canvas, 2017

    In 2021 Augusto dined at Alexander’s in North Park, San Diego, CA. That was during the tail end of the COVID-19 pandemic and they were passing out paper menus. He took advantage of that to create a sketch of one of the floral arrangements.

    pencil drawing of vase with floral arrangement, signed A SANDRONI 2021, Alexanders & address at the bottom
    Alexanders Still Life – 2021, pencil on back of menu

  • The Drawing Paintings: From The Digital To The Analog…

    image of abstract painting with geometric charcoal black and white drawing and caption "TAMALES" in red, signed A.S. 2022 in blue at the bottom
    Title: Untitled (TAMALES) Charcoal and acrylic on canvas, 2022

    According to Augusto, he was doodling with a vector program, and the process revealed the starting point for the drawing paintings.

    “I was trying to make brushes, which I’d use to eventually draw with the brush tool…”

    square with diagonal and vertical stripe lines and curved paths using a brush with the same initial square to create curved organic lines.

    The first building block, the striped square in the image above.

    After many different trials, Augusto decided on the composition in the image below.

    He had to make additional custom forms, such as the corners, the only parts that aren’t made from the initial building block.

    In the non-digital ( the image at the very top ), Augusto created the drawing layer using charcoal with a straight edge. The curved lines were hand drawn and sometimes they were re-drawn/erased multiple times until Augusto felt they were correct.

    Vestiges of the mistakes, smudges, are not erased. They are the tracks left behind from the interaction with the surface as the drawing is created.

    The lettering is stenciled using painter’s tape. It’s not a very efficient process, since the porosity of the canvas surface, and the relatively crude stencil. Each letter is painted separately, until it dries, then the tape is peeled off and the next letter is painted. It’s a time consuming and inefficient endeavor, but Augusto claims it is the method that provides the best results for him.

    “If they were perfect or letterpress-like, then I would not enjoy the making of the painting nearly as much; and I do not believe the end result would be as appealing.”

  • I Want To Be A Painter

    image of man standing in front of a painting with the words I WANT TO BE A PAINTER.
    I WANT TO BE A PAINTER

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