PORTRAITS - Veronica Huacuja

I painted this for an anonymous young man who died in the present war. No matter his nationality, Russian or Ukrainian, he will no longer enjoy the sharing of warm bread over a family table, nor the safe embrace of a mother, nor the trembling before a hopeful future. My heart is so haunted by the absurd loss of life that comes with this conflict. — *Painting for an anonymous young man who died in the present war.*

The title of the artwork intends to be polysemous. So, the verb to intervene, to occur between two things or two actions or two states is what this work is about. — *The Intervention 9*
*Oil on canvas*
*100 x 75 x 0.1 cm*
*2020*
*Collection: Portraits*
*Original Painting (+ delivery)*
*Art Shop*

The artwork shows a frontal close-up of an anonymous character that might be in a deep slumber or on a forensic table. The closeness of this format invites you to unravel its condition. — *Head Study 2*
*Oil on paper*
*24 x 32 x 0.1 cm*
*2018*
*Collection: Portraits*
*Original painting (+ delivery)*
*Art Shop*

The definition of the term epiphany, as you may know, is an experience of a striking realization, that can be mystical, religious, philosophical, etc. — *Epiphany 5*
*Digital Art*
*9,448 x 8,740 px, 300 dpi*
*2020*
*Collection: Portraits*
*Digital Art*
*Art Shop*
*Art Post*

I based my work on Margaret Cameron’s (1815-1879, British India) photo, “Thomas Carlyle” (1867), who was her friend, a philosopher, historian, and a teacher. — *Study of a Portrait 28*
*Ink on paper*
*32 x 24 x 0.1 cm*
*2003*
*Collection: Portraits*
*Original Painting (+ delivery)*
*Art Shop*
*Art Post & Video*

As a creator, I’m concerned in abnormality 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. I explore and investigate their lives. These initial information helps me to develop my work. I created this piece with deep respect and empathy for these persons. — *Deaf Man 6*
*Acrylic on paper*
*32.7 x 23.6 x 0.1 cm*
*2021*
*Collection: Portraits*
*Art Shop*
*Art Post*

The title of the piece intends to be polysemous (diverse meanings). So, the verb intervene, to occur between two things or two actions or two states is what the work is about. — *The Intervention 8*
*Digital Art*
*10,000 x 4803 px, 300 dpi*
*2020*
*Collection: Portraits*
*Digital Art*
*Art Shop*
*Art Post*

What provoked me to make up this piece are two initial sources: a splendid photograph I found on the Internet, and the story of the author Marguerite Yourcenar, “Blue Story”. — *River Blindness 4*
*Digital Art*
*16,0000 x 7110 px, 300 dpi*
*2020*
*Collection: Portraits*
*Digital Art*
*Art Shop*

The eyes were the thing that most impacted me in Velazquez’s work, "Pope Innocent X". Then why don’t make this character a blind one? — *Cortical Blindness*
*Digital Art*
*10,630 x 8,269 px, 300 dpi*
*2020*
*Collection: Portraits*
*Original Painting*
*Art Shop*
*Art Post*

I’ve always been concerned with the probable astonishment and strangeness that a person might experience while facing its death. — *In The Morgue 10. Variation 2*
*Digital Art*
*9,448 x 4,784 px, 300 dpi*
*2020*
*Collection: Portraits*
*Original Digital Art*
*Art Shop*

The influences of artists upon other artists. This time, the work of the British India woman photographer, Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879), amazed me. My work is based on her photo, “Thomas Carlyle", 1867. — *The Deaf Man 8*
*Crayon, oil on paper*
*48.2 x 61 x 0.1 cm*
*2021*
*Collection:Portraits*

As in other artworks, the painting circumscribes, in a close-up, the deformed face of the personage. I do the latter to exalt his emotional disturbance. — *Head Study 46*
*Oil Painting*
*30.5 x 23 x 0.1 cm*
*2020*
*Collection: Portraits*
*Original Painting*
*Art Shop*
*Art Post*

As an artist, I’ve always been concerned in abnormality and its effects on human life. So, characters with faces with eccentric, asymmetric features is something I find fascinating. — *Head Study 24*
*Oil on paper*
*24 x 32 x 0.1 cm*
*2018*
*Collection: Portraits*
*Original painting (+ delivery)*
*Art Shop*
*Art Post*

Portrait Artwork — *Study of an Anonymous Character 31*
*Crayon on paper*
*27 x 21 x 0.1 cm*
*2017*

To create this artwork, I read and watched testimonials of persons united in the same body (twinning of two heads being supported by a single torso), and living intersected lives. I made up the artwork with deep respect for these persons. — *Bodies Study 64*
*Acrylic, oil on paper*
*95 x 66 x 0.1 cm*
*2019*
*Collection: Portraits*
*Original Painting (+ delivery)*
*Art Shop*

Capturing the emotional state of a character is one of my main goals as a portraitist. — *Head Study 38*
*Oil on paper (mounted on cardboard)*
*21 x 27 x 0.1 cm*
*2018*
*Collection: Portraits*
*Original Painting (+ delivery)*
*Art Shop*

I have always been concerned with forensic art, the physical changes that human body suffers after losing life, and, among other topics, the probable astonishment, strangeness and absurdity that a person might experience while facing its death... But these are concepts. In this artwork I tried to picture this experience. — *In the Morgue 3*
*Digital paint*
*2020*

Title: Study Head 4 Media: Oil and ink on paper Size: 24 x 32 x 0.1 cm Year: 2018 — *Woman’s portrait 2*
*Oil on paper*
*24 x 32 x 0.1 cm*
*2018*

What inspired me to make up this work is one personage of Marguerite Yourcenar’s (1903-1987, France) arcane story, "Blue". — *Head Study 44*
*Oil on cardboard*
*30.5 x 40 x 0.2 cm*
*2018*
*Collection: Portraits*
*Original Painting (+ delivery)*
*Art Shop*
*Art Post*

Once, in a very early morning, in a downtown Mexico City's street, I saw this man lying on the cold sidewalk. — *Head Study 29*
*Oil, acrylic on paper*
*24 x 32 x 0.1 cm*
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*Collection: Portraits*
*Original Painting (+ delivery)*
*Art Shop*
*Art Post*

This is a portrait of an obscure character within a weird composition. What inspired me its creation is one of the personages of Marguerite Yourcenar’s arcane story, "Blue". — *Head Study 44*
*Oil on cardboard*
*30.5 x 40.6 x 0.2 cm*
*2018*

In this artwork, I tried to picture a troubled character with a broken nose. The emotional state of a character is one of the most important things I believe I have to accomplish while making up a portrait. This is to picture its emotions which “(...) are often intertwined with mood, temperament, personality (...) and motivation” and personal history. — *Head Study 69*
*Acrylic on paper*
*35.6 x 43.2 x 0.1 cm*
*2019*
*Collection: “Portraits”*

I created this artwork based on stills from a true psychiatric video* of a catatonic patient, where stupor makes him resemble an immobile sculpture. I made up the work with deep respect towards this person. — Study for a Portrait 35
*Crayon, oil on paper*
*21 x 27 x 0.1 cm*
*2020*
*Collection: Portraits*
*Video*

You're welcome to this collection.

One thing that calls my attention as an artist is the man and its precarious conditions (temporality, decay...). So, sickness, pathological behavior, forensics… are just some of the topics I explore. I find them fascinating.

Because of the diverse subjects I'm interested in, I've classified my work in collections. This helps me understand my work in a better way. It also helps the re-creator to understand it, to invite or produce in him or her a state of mind that assists them in penetrating the work's creation circle.

In my Portraits collection, I work special characters in borderline situations. This means that the artworks are dramatic and in most of them I try to grasp their frantic beauty.

My Initial Resources

As an artist, I use all the resources I have in hand to create a piece. Some of the following tools are oil painting, charcoal, acrylics, digital painting, coloured pencils, 3D digital sculpting, clay sculpting, photographs of other creators and stills from true crime documentary videos–giving the artists their due credit, of course–are all good resources for my work. I've sometimes mixed, very interestingly, acrylics with digital painting, such as in a work I like very much The Deaf Man No. 7. For this painting, I first made up a portrait, The Deaf Man No. 6. I digitalized the latter, distorted it in PhotoShop and, using the same software, created the character's body in a pink environment.

Art Techniques

The techniques I use are traditional (oil and acrylic, crayon, pencil, clay sculpting, etc.) and digital painting (digital tablet, Photoshop, 3D sculpture, 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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