The imprint theme which appears in the sculptures is also leitmotiv of the paintings. The aim of the artist was to imitate digital and graffiti lookalike effects with classical paintings techniques creating figure-ground illusions and lookalike Photoshop effects. Federico Vecchi usually begins with spray painted background on which he paint with acrylic color, then the brushstrokes are partially washed away leaving just an imprint of themselves, later some parts of the painting are masked with liquid clay and sprayed again. A plainly sculptural material is present in the painting with its absence. The technique denies the gesture of painting to counterfeit the pictorial trace which leaves only an imprint of itself