HUMAN BODY - Veronica Huacuja

The work portrays an erotical volumetric male body. — *The Obese Man 3*
*Acrylic on paper*
*29.7 x 42 x 0.1 cm*
*2022*
*Collection: Human Body*
*Original Painting (+ delivery)*
*Art Shop*
*Post*

As a creator, I’m interested in abnormality and its effects on human life. To make up this artwork, I made a research of people that live conjoined lives. I created the piece with deep respect and empathy towards these people. — *The Bond. Study of a Portrait*
*Acrylic, color pencil on canvas*
*120 x 80 x 2.0 cm*
*2021*
*Collection: Human Body*
*Original Painting (+ delivery)*
*Art Shop*

As a creator, I’m interested in abnormality, deformity and its effects in human life. The persons that lose one of their five senses or were born missing one of them call my interest. This initial information helps me develop my work. I created this piece with deep respect for these persons. — *The Deaf Man 7*
*Digital Art*
*10,000 x 10,000 px, 300 dpi*
*2021*
*Collection: Human Body*
*Original Digital Art*
*Art Shop*
*Post*

The character in this artwork has an emotional state. So, that being said, its motivations are something I leave to the observer to decipher. — *Woman in Brown, Study 8*
*Acrylic on canvas*
*80 x 60 x 2.5 cm*
*2021*
*Collection: Human Body*
*Art Shop*
*Post*

I based this work on various video stills from a true documentary where a collective interview is being held. — *The Intervention 5*
*Acrylic on paper*
*95 x 68 x 0.1 cm*
*2019*
*Collection: Human Body*
*Original Painting (+ delivery)*
*Art Shop*
*Art Post*

The character in this artwork is in an emotional state. Its motivations are something I leave to the observer to interpret. — *Study of a Body in Brown 5*
*Digital Art*
*5,000 x 6667 px, 300 dpi*
*2021*
*Collection: Human Body*
*Original Digital Art*
*Art Shop*

As a creator, I’m interested in deformity and its effects on human life. The persons that lose one of their five senses or were born missing one of them call my interest. This initial information helps me develop my work. I made this piece with deep respect for these people. — *The Deaf Man 14*
*Acrylic, digital painting*
*2021*
*Collection: Human Body*

This time, I wanted to paint a nude body showing its state of defenselessness. Deformity is another topic I explore in the work. — *Body Study 7*
*Oil on paper*
*30.5 x 22.8 x 0.1 cm*
*2017*
*Collection: Human Body*
*Original Painting (+ delivery)*
*Art Shop*
*Art Post*

In this figurative artwork, I recreated an eerie, black painting of a haunting scene in a dungeon. Somewhat a dreadful slumber. The relationship established between the characters is an interpretation for you to decipher. — *Bodies Study 19*
*Oil, acrylic on canvas*
*120 x 70 x 0.1 cm*
*2017*
*Collection: Human Body*
*Original Painting (+ delivery)*
*Art Shop*

I tried to make a dramatic artwork by using firm lines in the foreshortening and exalting the nudity of the model. — *Study of a Nude Body 25*
*Charcoal and oil on paper*
*35.6 x 43.2 x 0.1 cm*
*2021*
*Collection: Human Body*

The character in this artwork has an emotional state. So, that being said, its motivations is something I leave to the observer to interpret. — *Woman in Brown, Study 7*
*Digital Art*
*10,000 x 4803 px, 300 dpi*
*2021*
*Collection: Human Body*
*Original Digital Art*
*Art Shop*
*Art Blog*

The frantic behaviour of this anonymous man in a psychiatric asylum deeply impressed me. I watched him on a film done decades ago. His story, still “talks” to us… The man in yellow, the man in pain. — *Man in an Asylum 4*
*Digital Painting*
*2021*
*Collection: Human Body 1*

As in the myths, this painting shows a bicephalous in a strange dialogue. One of the creatures is aware of the observer, who is looking at the scene. In return, the personage’s gaze intends to wrap up the observer such as some characters do in “The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp” created by the grand master, Rembrandt (1606-1669, Dutch Republic). — *Bodies Study 10*
*Acrylic on paper*
*55.6 x 74.9 x 0.1 cm*
*2017*
*Collection: Human Body*
*Original Painting*
*Art Shop*

Fatness is a human condition that, in arts, is a splendid topic to work with. The generosity with which an overweight body exposes itself, displaying its carnality, is magnificent. — *Body Study 82*
*Digital Painting*
*2020*
*Collection: Human Body*
*Post & Video*

The strange pose of the model in a workshop inspired me to make this drawing. — *Kneeling Woman 15*
*Charcoal on paper*
*35.6 x 43.2 x 0.1 cm*
*2021*
*Collection: Human Body*

In this work I tried to grasp the dramatic gesture of the woman. I associated her demeanor with a verse from a song of Omeria: “Allí amé a una mujer terrible...”. (”There I loved a terrible woman...”.) — *Kneeling Woman 17*
*Acrylic, oil on paper*
*43 x 35 x 0.1 cm*
*2021*
*Collection: Human Body*

In this painting, I looked forward to create the gaze of a nude male posing in a disturbing pose, and by that action making the observer take part in what’s happening in the piece. — *Body Study 12*
*Acrylic on paper*
*61 x 74 x 0.1 cm*
*2017*
*Collection: Human Body*

As a creator, I’m concerned in abnormality and its effects in human life. The persons that lose one of their five senses or were born missing one of them call my interest. — *The Deaf Man 9*
*Digital Painting and oil on paper*
*2021*
*Post*

The artwork is my interpretation of one the scenes of the story, “The Hell So Dreaded 1” (1) by Juan Carlos Onetti (Uruguay, 1909-1994): “La primera carta, la primera fotografía, le llegó (a la oficina) entre la medianoche y el cierre. (La) vio por sorpresa, no terminó de comprender, (pero) supo que iba a ofrecer cualquier cosa por olvidar lo que había visto.” (The first letter, the first photograph, arrived (to the office) between midnight and the closing time. (…) He saw it by surprise, and did not quietly understanding it, but he knew he was going to offer anything to forget what he had seen.) — *The Hell So Dreaded, 1*
*Acrylic Painting*
*48.3 x 61 x 0.1 cm*
*2021*
*Collection: Human Body*

I based this artwork on one of the Specola Anatomical Collection from the Museum of Natural History in Florence, which is a collection of wax figures in sensual postures that hide and reveal the inner wonders of the human body. — *Body Study 8*
*Acrylic on paper*
*100 x 70 x 0.1 cm*
*2003*
*Collection: Human Body*
*Original Painting (+ delivery)*
*Art Shop*
*Art Post*

The work of the British photographer, John Coplans (1920-2003) amazed me. This work is based on his photo “Self Portrait: Torso With Large Upper Arm II", 1985. — *Body Study 62*
*Oil, crayon on paper*
*28 x 21.3 x 0.1 cm*
*2019*
*Collection: Human Body*
*Original Painting (+ delivery)*
*Art Shop*
*Art Blog*

My work intends to picture life with its sometimes dark, dramatic, incomprehensible ways of presenting itself. I try hard to make art that has polysemy or different interpretations by the observers. So, I only point in a direction without defining a destiny. The journey has to be made by the re-creator. — *Woman’s Torso 14*
*Digital Painting*
*2021*
*Collection: Human Body*

As an artist, I have always been interested in abnormality and its effects on human life. I based this work on a series of public photographs of human fetuses. They stroke my attention because of its composition, colors, dramatic poses and their strange beauty. I made up the work with great respect towards the tragedy of these never born creatures. — *Baby in Yellow 3*
*Digital Painting*
*2021*
*Collection: Human Body*
*Post*

With a certain concept of a female’s body I began sketching. Little by little, the body began to take shape, offering itself. The results, as most of my work, is dramatic. — *Woman’s Body 25*
*Digital Art*
*5,251 x 7,000 px, 300 dpi*
*2018*
*Collection: Human Body*
*Original Digital Art*
*Art Shop*
*Art Blog*

The portrait displays a Jane or John Doe. It exposes the body in a violent movement and tragic expression. — *Body Study 83*
*Acrylic on paper*
*25 x 25 x 0.1 cm*
*2022*
*Collection: Human Body*

These paintings operate in a diptych, which means they flow together to form a single unified scene with a narrative that bonds them. They search to have a strong sense of visual coherence. — *Two Studies for a Portrait 5*
*Oil on paper*
*22.8 x 30.3 x 0.1 cm each piece*
*2017*

Human Body Artwork — *Body Study 14*
*Oil on canvas*
*120 x 100 cm*
*2017*

Regarding the technique I used in this work, I made it up with brushes and finger painting. One thing that I enjoyed is the use of thinner in the crayon strokes that diluted them, and then I mixed the colour that was left them with the oil painting. — *Female Body, Study 1*
*Oil and crayon on paper*
*90 x 60 x 0.1 cm*
*2003*
*Collection: Human Body*
*Art Shop*
*Art Post*

I pictured the character of this work with great dynamism and in an emotional state. — *Woman in Green 3*
*Digital Painting*
*2021*
*Collection: “Human Body”*

The acrylic painting features dynamic and dramatic strokes. — *Body Study 67*
*Acrylic on paper*
*34.5 x 46 x 0.1 cm*
*2019*
*Collection: Human Body*
*Original Painting*
*Art Shop*

I practice using both digital and traditional techniques, such as acrylic on cardboard. The work shown here is one result of this daily practice. If you're interested, visit the following link to read my experience while making up this work: https://www.patreon.com/posts/39552171 — *Body Study 68*
*Acrylic on cardboard*
*46 x 33.2 x 0.1 cm*
*2019*
*Collection: Human Body*
*Art Shop*
*Art Post*

*Body Study 64*
*Acrylic on paper*
*67.8 x 47.7 x 0.1 cm*
*2003*

In this portrait I looked forward to create the gaze of the male nudes to provoke an emotional response in the observer. This to include him/her in their tragic condition. I took this principle of art from Rembrandt's "Syndics of the Drapers' Guild"*, where the characters stare at the observer and that action makes the latter participate in what's happening in the piece. — *Bodies Study 75*
*Oil, acrylic on canvas*
*120 x 80 x 1.5 cm*
*2020*

There’s a folk singer-songwriter called Lhasa de Sela (1972-2010). She was born in America and raised in Mexico. One of her songs, “The Desert”, sang with her deep, husky voice, was the inspiration for this artwork. — *Woman in Red 5*
*Digital Painting*
*2020*
*Collection: “Women”*

I created this artwork after studying the body of art of the English-American photographer, Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904), who analyzed bodies (animals and humans) in motion. — *Deformed Body in Movement 12*
*Digital Painting*
*2017*

One important thing to achieve in drawing or painting the human body is the dynamism that the figure must have, no matter if it is at rest or in movement. — *Body Study 65*
*Crayon, oil on paper*
*20.8 x 21 x 0.1 cm*
*2019*
*Collection: Human Body*
*Original Painting (+ delivery)*
*Art Shop*
*Art Post*

The artwork was made out of a physical model. — *Woman’s Torso 12*
*Oil on paper*
*95 x 70 x 0.1 cm*
*2021*
*Collection: Human Body*

Just after admiring Eadweard Muybridge’s (1830-1904) body of art, I pictured the character of this work with great dynamism and in an emotional state. — *Woman in Brown, Study 6*
*Digital Art*
*9,000 x 9.000 px, 300 dpi*
*2021*
*Collection: Human Body*
*Original Digital Art*
*Art Shop*

As a creator, I’ve always been concerned with abnormality and its effects in human life. To create this work, I read and watched testimonials of persons united in the same body living “intersected lives”. I created this work with deep respect for these persons. — *In the Morgue 8*
*Digital Art*
*10,000 x 10,000 x 300 dpi*
*2020*
*Collection: Human Body*
*Original Digital Art*
*Art Shop*

I attend to workshops where physical models pose to the participants, but during this Covid period, I haven’t had the chance to do so. So, what I do, among other activities, is remembering these past exercises, and draw/paint them by heart. In most of them I try to achieve the gesture. I invite you to watch a 1 min video where you can appreciate the process of the artwork at https://www.patreon.com/posts/45864748 — *Gesture 6*
*Digital Painting*
*2021*

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Welcome!

One thing I say with humbleness is that I paint what human life uncovers at certain moments and permit me to palpate it. Sometimes–when this happens–, the extraordinary unfolds, plentiful with deformity and drama. I seek to capture this deranged beauty with polysemous (different) meanings. Within these results, I always search too to cause a visual impact, a blow, a strike upon the soul of the observer.

My Initial Resources

As an artist, I use all the resources I have in hand. This means that I use physical human models, digital photography, chronophotographs (video stills from documentaries), digital images, radiology images, clay and digital sculptures (done by me). The aforementioned means that almost any media can be an initial resource for my work.

Sometimes, I even mix traditional techniques (oil, acrylic) with digital art, such as in Head Study 76. The process of this piece is interesting. I sculpted a human head in Blender (open-source 3D software), duplicated it and merged both pieces. In the same environment, I explored the figure from different points of view (profile, low-angle, high-angle images, etc.). Then selected the one I liked the most. I used the last image as an initial source to paint this portrait in a physical environment with oil on paper.

Art Techniques

The techniques I use are traditional (oil and acrylic, crayon, pencil, clay sculpting, etc.) and digital painting and sculpting (digital tablet, Photoshop, Blender, etc.).

My Art for Sale

I established my Art Shops at Fine Art America and Singulart where you can find prints of my artwork and other merchandise products. Visit them any time.

If you're interested in an original artwork, you can contact me at art@veronica.mx

Art & Mindfulness For Business and Schools. Program For Creativity And Well-being

As an art teacher, I've designed this program for Business and Schools who seek a means of anti-stress relaxation through artistic enjoyment. The teaching I offer is a lifelong learning, as it encourages participants to practice their emotional intelligence both individually and as a group.

Head over to the following links to know the features of each educational intervention that comprise this program:

Business: https://veronica.mx/artprogram

Schools: https://veronica.mx/artprogram1, https://veronica.mx/workshop

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