Original Painting Blue Green African Woman Songstress Mask Semi-Abstract Face for Sale

Original Painting Blue Green African Woman Songstress Mask Semi-Abstract Face For Sale

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Original Painting Blue Green African Woman Songstress Mask Semi-Abstract Face:
$1000.00

This is an Original, Modern Expressionist Oil Painting on Canvas - Still as New as Ever

Artist: Janice Marie Alexander - Panny Nationally Published, Award-Winning Artist

Certificate of Authenticity Included

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The title of thispainting is: Vieux Carre Vibe.This is an original oil painting on canvas signed by me. Most of my artwork is spontaneously inspired. Color is as important to me as subject matter. I grew up in Louisiana and lived there until I was a young adult. I stayed in the French Quarter of New Orleans for several years and worked for the Brennan\'s Restaurants as a photographer. Jazz was everywhere in the Quarter and so were very talented songstresses. The dress was loud and colorful and the expressions were just as loud and colorful. These songstresses had a certain \"vibe.\" They were different, exhilarating, enchanting and ALIVE with rhythm. I will always live with those memories and the many, many unique experiences that I lived through in Louisiana.

This painting was created strictly from my imagination as are all of my portraits and is inspired by the unique beauty of the African American woman. The textures created by the fast motion of the brush strokes give a thick movement to the painting. This is meant to show that her spirit is alive, which is also seen in her intense eyes. This painting is also indicative of a larger body of artwork that I am creating for the SMMART ART IMPACT PROJECT. SMMART is Single Mothers and Minority Advocates Reaching-Out Together. I started the Smmart Art Impact Project to bring awareness to the challenges and rewards that single mothers and minorities face and to kick-start the non-profit organization SMMART. The Smmart Art Impact Project will take two years to complete and will end in the summer of 2021 with three exhibits of the artwork and photography work in Los Angeles as well as a book containing all of the artwork and thirty poems.

When you look at a Vermeer, you see poetry on canvas. You see a deliberation that leads the eye to a focal point that he has chosen and you see a brilliance with light that is unmatched. You see what the artist is looking at in everyday life rendered spectacularly on canvas. With my artwork, everything comes from my imagination. ALL of my faces are uniquely created as I paint and nothing about the subject or environment is copied onto the canvas. I draw upon feelings, emotions, past experiences and prayerful spiritual guidance to create my artwork. The focus is not on the subject in the paintings but on the viewer. The subjects in my paintings are almost always staring intently at the viewer and as you look into their eyes you will see the empathy in them connecting to your very soul. They have come from the spiritual realm to aoffere on the walls of those they connect with.

The Painting Process:

Pleaseknow that in my paintings I do not use toxic stains to prime the canvas, harshsolvents when thinning paints, varnishes over the paintings or toxic chemicals.I use costly linseed oil, poppy oil and quality mineral spirits instead ofturpentine or other cheap, harsh and toxic solvents to thin my paints and thisgives them a brilliant and permanent brightness and shine. My paints are notedible but they are much safer than many types of paints. I do not need to gooutside at any stage of crafting my paintings because the air that my sons andI breathe is safe. I care about my family, my customers and the environmentvery much. This way the paintings can dwell in your homes or offices with youand your family and not release toxins into the air that you breathe over time.Depending on how thick that the paint is applied to the canvas it can take upto a year or longer for an oil painting to fully dry and months for an oilpainting with thinner layers of paint to fully dry. My paintings have beendrying for quite some time. I do not list them unless the paint is dry to thetouch. Since some of my paintings are impasto style - they will continue tofully dry over a long period of time. In my impasto paintings, the thickness ofthe paint and how it is applied give the paintings an aliveness of movement. Itis important to me in these impasto paintings for the viewer to not only seethe subject matter but to experience that movement along with the vibrantcolors. I truly believe that the textures, aliveness of colors, brush andpalate knife strokes and materials used can significantly improve the viewer\'sexperience with my paintings. An artist can create the illusion of texture withthe brush stroke or that artist can make those textures a reality that can beexperienced.I primarily paint on canvas with unfinished edges. My edges are unfinishedbecause the paints from the artwork on the edges of the canvas tell a story.You can see what colors I began and ended with and how complex or how simplethe color scheme is based on the amount of fingerprints and brush strokes ofdifferent colors there are on the edges. Because my paints are very low intoxicity, those paints are ALL over my hands when I am painting. I get soinvolved in the experience of painting and creating texture within the paintingthat my hands often touch the paint and that paint transfers on to the sides ofthe canvas after I involve my hands in the painting and then grab differentparts of the edges. I want to be able to do things with the canvas like pullingit very close to me when I am creating a reflection of the surrounding colorsinto the eyes of the subject. The eyes of the subject are very important to me.They are the windows to the soul of that person that I have created. Sometimes,I like screaming atthe viewer that these people are really alive with their eyes. At other times I will purposely paint flat eyesthat reflect nothing because the subject has no soul or because I want thefocal point of the painting to be something other than the eyes, such as thelips or what the subject is wearing. Many of my subjects are African Americanand what they are wearing is sometimes the focal point of the painting.I do not use an easel very often. I hold the canvas when I paint to get upclose and personal with the paintings. My fingers slide up and down and acrossthe edges of the painting so the sides are multi-colored unless I am painting amonochrome painting and then you will see different shades of the same color onthe edges. As for the paints, I mix every color that I use with linseed oiland mineral spirits if the color is darker and poppy seed oil and mineralspirits if the color is lighter. I mix each color separately on a plasticdisposable plate. I do this because I mix my colors extremely thoroughly and indoing so I need a wide space with each color while I am turning the color overand over again with a large palate knife if it is a predominate color in thepainting and a small palate knife if the color is used sparingly. I never mixmy paints with the brushes because I get much more thorough control over themixing process with a palate knife and also because bristles absorb too much ofthe paint when you mix with them and then when I go to paint, the paint is tooheavy in the bristles and that detracts from detailed control of the paint.Sometimes, I will add a different color to the same plate when I want to blendthe two colors into the background and as I use the palate knife or my fingers,I will go back again and again to that same plate while I am creating thebackground mixing the two colors. Because of this, my work-space is covered inpaints, brushes, oils, palate knives and many plates.The painting comes to you with hardware attached and ready to hang on the wall.I do include a certificate of authenticity with the name Janice Marie Alexander - Panny as the artist and this certificate comes to you with all ofmy paintings.Thank you very much for viewing and purchasing my artwork. ALL paintings willbe signed by me with my nickname: Panny. No expense will be sparedin packaging my paintings that will travel to you safely and securely. I do notuse tubes to mail my paintings leaving you with work to do. I mail them usingglassine, corner protectors, layers of foam board, air-tight, high-qualityencasement and the most expensive boxes for mailing paintings sold. Whether thepainting is mailed to a U.S. buyer or has to travel through customs to afar-away destination - my paintings will arrive at your door unharmed. Justknow that when you purchase a Panny - a lot of time, experiences and expensewent into the artwork.

Keywords: portraits, Pop art, african,impasto, black people, fauvism, expressionism, faces, abstract, modern,monochrome

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