I wish I knew :) I guess we'll have a proper name for a hundreds years later, as I am not the only one painting like that!

Meanwhile, let me describe some of the characteristics my work have.

I like to paint real stuff but in a colourful way, enhancing what I see. I love to leave my brushwork visible, without blending it too much. For that, I use oil paints. Sometimes, edges can be mixed, and others, you can paint wet on wet without mixing. In addition, oils can have vibrant colours, but also transparencies in which the base underpainting is seeing. This creates nice happy accidents that make the painting more interesting.

If you want to learn more on my colour theory or techniques, check my Domestika Courses or visit my YouTube channel.

Yes. I'd be honoured! If you need any more info, feel free to send me a mail to hello@alaiganuza.com and we can schedule a call, mails... your best :)

I paint mostly with oil paints. But I also paint digitally sometimes. 

I explain materials deeply in my first Domestika Course.

Oils

For painting in oils I use: wood, paper or canvases as support, gesso, oil ground and/or acrylic for priming, acrylic or acrylic markers for sketching, and finally oil paints for painting.

Digital

Although I tried other painting tablets in the past, I paint mostly in the iPad. Procreate is my preferred tool to edit and make mock ups. But all my traditional-digital paintings are made in an app called ArtRage. 

Short answer: it helps me painting more saturate and it gives some fun to the painting. Recently I made a video with a deep talk/show about this.

To keep the motivation high, you need to see results frequent. For that, I suggest you paint small things in fast sessions. If you have 1 hour to paint, make a finished painting in that hour, maybe 2. If you have 3h a day to paint, you can make more ambitious paintings, but be sure to finish them in that period of time. Only with experience you'll be able to tell how many times you take to paint a thing. Start small with the things you have around. Make a list: ear, eye, pear, avocado, glasses, car, your pet... Don't think, just paint. Grab the list and start painting as you go. The more "meh" objects and random paintings will be the best ones!

Watching you painted a finished piece today, will encourage you to paint another one tomorrow. And if you made some "bad" ones, don't worry, just drop it apart and start fresh tomorrow! Use cheap materials so you don't get attached to the paintings. Oil paper is great for beginners!

I doodled like everyone else since I was a kid. But as I studied science, I have not painted much until 2015 when I entered Fine Arts Degree at University. But it was little, random and unmotivated. It wasn't until 2020 when I started painting daily small things as described above. I learnt more in that year by myself than in the previous years. And now, now I paint more than ever.

I created a free guide to share with you all how I grew my account from scratch. Here you can check that guide. However, Instagram is an evolving social media platform. I suggest you take this as a base and experiment and research more so you can educate and update with it.