PORTRAIT ARTWORK

Portrait Artwork
As we may know, Robert Franklin Stroud (1890-1963) was a convicted criminal with significant contrasts in his lifetime. These dichotomies prompted me to create his portrait. I tried to capture the tumultuous events in his life and in the lives of others that crossed their paths with him. Most of my work is figurative and semi-figurative. In this artwork I turned the way around and created a semi-abstract portrait.
Robert Stroud, “The Birdman of Alcatraz”
Digital Painting
2021
Collection: The Relentless
As an artist, I'm interested in those that fight monsters (true crime) and their reality.
The Persecutor 3
Digital Painting
2021
Series: The Relentless
The drive that a character has in a true crime documentary inspired me to create this artwork. So, the artwork's title, the character's gesture and mood, the special use of light on its face, the close-up format and the palette make up the atmosphere of the work.
The Informant 4
Oil on paper
32 x 25 x 0.1 cm
 2020
The title of the artwork intends to be polysemous. So, the verb intervene, to occur between two things or two actions or two states is what this work is about. The medium size of the canvas and the close-up format give the observer nothing else but to watch.
The Intervention 9
Oil, acrylic on canvas
100 x 75 x 0.1 cm
2020
This portrait is an homage for the women that lost their lives in the hands of Jack the Ripper a couple of centuries ago. Their names, as we all know, are Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly. Since I began this artwork, I wanted to portray the troubled life and tragic deaths of these unknown (at the time) women. I created this artwork with deep respect towards them.
A Whitechapel’s Woman
Oil on paper
11 x 13 x 0.1 in
2020
Sometimes, I visit a park that’s nearby, which has a huge pond filled with dozens of carps. Sometimes, as well, I stop and feed them pieces of bread that begin floating in circles on the peaceful surface. In a matter of seconds, the obscure waters transform just as if they’re boiling because dozens of those animals gather trying to swallow the food. It is very impressive to see their flashing open mouths, the savage struggle between them trying to capture the crumbs and to hear the sound of their bodies colliding. In this artwork, I tried to picture the strength of this experience.
In the Morgue 10
Digital Painting
2020
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The Intervention 8
Digital art
2020
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Bodies Study 64
Acrylic, oil on paper
2019
Portrait Artwork
Bicephalous Lina and Alexandra 5
Digital Art
2020
Bicephalous Study 5
Ink on paper
30 x 21 x 0.1 cm
2020
Portrait Artwork
Body Study 65
Acrylic and oil on paper
67 x 97 x 0.1 cm
2019
Title: Study Head 4 Media: Oil, acrylic ink on paper Size: 24 x 32 x 0.1 cm  Year: 2018
Study Head 29
Oil, acrylic on paper
Size: 24 x 32 x 0.1 cm
2018
Portrait Artwork. Just like in dreams reality overlaps experiences. This artwork responds to this phenomenon: the reading of a story of Duras and the obscenity of the killing of a tragic personage.
Blue or Marguerite Study 3
Ink on paper
30 x 21 x 0.1 cm
2020
Portrait Artwork
Cortical Blindness
Digital Art
2020
Portrait Artwork
Head Study 77
Oil and acrylic on paper
96 x 65.5 x 0.1 cm
2019
Portrait Artwork
Head Study 75
Oil and ink on paper
108 x 91 x 0.1 cm
2019
I base this portrait on a photograph of an unknown inmate. While making the portrait, I tried to capture the tragedy that I saw in the character's face, as well as her astonishment (probably, because of her conditions at the time). I exaggerate some of her features and positioned her face in a close-up.
Head Study 68
Oil on paper
24 x 32 x 0.1 cm 
2018
This artwork is base in the mugshots of an USA inmate, Walter Turpin (1877-?).
Head Study 28
Oil on paper
24 x 32 x 0.1 cm
2018
Portrait Artwork
River Blindness 4
Digital Painting
2020
The artwork shows a frontal close-up of an anonymous character who might be in a deep slumber or on a forensic table. The closeness of this format invites us to unravel its condition. Either way, its deformed face denotes a peaceful mood.
Head Study 2
Oil on paper
24 x 32 x 0.1 cm
2018
The artwork seeks to express a contained violence, distraught and disturbance of an anonymous character.
Head Study 4
Oil and ink on paper
24 x 32 x 0.1 cm
2018
Title: Head Study 69 Media: Oil and ink on paper Size: 24 x 32 x 0.1 cm  Year: 2018
Head Study 69;
Oil, acrylic on paper;
43.2 x 35.6 x 0.1 cm; 
2019.
Title: Study Head 4 Media: Oil and ink on paper Size: 24 x 32 x 0.1 cm  Year: 2018
Head Study 35;
Oil on paper;
Size: 24 x 32 x 0.1 cm; 
2018.
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Portrait of an Anonymous Character 27
Oil and crayon on paper
21 x 27 x 0.1 cm
2018
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Portrait of an Anonymous Character 28
Crayon on paper
21 x 27 x 0.1 cm 
2018
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
Title: Study Head 4 Media: Oil and ink on paper Size: 24 x 32 x 0.1 cm  Year: 2018
Study of a Character 2
Oil on paper
21 x 27 x 0.1 cm 
2018
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Study of a Character 1
Crayon on paper
21 x 27 x 0.1 cm 
2018
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Head Study 81
Oil, crayon
on paper
27 x 21 x 0.1 cm 
2018
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Woman’s Portrait 4
Oil on canvas
24 x 32 x 0.1 cm
2018
Title: Study Head 4 Media: Oil and ink on paper Size: 24 x 32 x 0.1 cm  Year: 2018
Man’s Portrait 28;
Acrylic on paper;
25 x 40 x 0.1 cm;
2003.
Title: Study Head 4 Media: Oil and ink on paper Size: 24 x 32 x 0.1 cm  Year: 2018
Study based on a photograph of an unknown inmate;
Ink on paper;
24 x 32 x 0.1 cm; 
2005.
Title: Study Head 4 Media: Oil and ink on paper Size: 24 x 32 x 0.1 cm  Year: 2018
Study of a Portrait 25;
Ink on paper;
24 x 32 x 0.1 cm;
2005.
Work based on a Julia Margaret Cameron’s photograph.
Title: Study Head 4 Media: Oil and ink on paper Size: 24 x 32 x 0.1 cm  Year: 2018
Study of a portrait 26;
Ink on paper;
24 x 32 x 0.1 cm;
2005.
Work based on a Paul Weston’s photograph.
Portrait Artwork
Study of a Portrait 27
Ink on paper
24 x 32 x 0.1 cm
2005
Work based on a Julia Margaret Cameron’s photograph.
Title: Study Head 4 Media: Oil and ink on paper Size: 24 x 32 x 0.1 cm  Year: 2018
Study of a Portrait of an Anonymous Character 28;
Ink on paper;
24 x 32 x 0.1 cm; 
2005.
I created this artwork after reading about Eva Perón’s afterlife, the First Lady of Argentina (1946-1952). As we all know, when she died, the Spanish pathologist, Dr. Pedro Ara, embalmed her body with magnificent success. Since then, she resembles just like the character of the children’s story, “Sleeping Beauty”, immersed in a deep, peaceful dream in a forever youthful body. Her embalmed corpse has a lengthy story. In one of its to and fro transcontinental trips from America to Europe, her coffin fell down and her nose broke. This detail inspired me to create the artwork of an unknown female with a broken nose.
Head Study 45
Oil and acrylic on paper
40 x 35 x 0.1 cm
2018
"Head Study 24" is a portrait of an anonymous character with strong indigenous features. This work, as you can appreciate, avoids the symmetry of the face and elongates the mouth and lips in a non-proportional way. The technique I used is the chiaroscuro.
Head Study 24
Oil on paper
24 x 32 x 0.1 cm 
2018
I based the artwork on an image of a true forensic documentary. This with deep respect for the woman I portrayed.
And We Loved Each Other So Much, Study 7
Acrylic on paper
59 x 35 x 0.1 cm
2020
Title: Head Study 44 Media: Oil on carboard; Size: 24 x 32 x 0.1 cm  Year: 2018
Head Study 4
Oil on cardboard
30.5 x 40 x 0.2 cm
2018
Title: Study Head 4 Media: Oil and ink on paper Size: 24 x 32 x 0.1 cm  Year: 2018
Study Head 42;
Oil and ink on paper;
Size: 24 x 32 x 0.1 cm; 
2018.
Title: Study Head 4 Media: Oil and ink on paper Size: 24 x 32 x 0.1 cm  Year: 2018
Head Study 38;
Oil on paper;
Size: 21 x 27 x 0.1 cm; 
2017.
Title: Study Head 4 Media: Oil and ink on paper Size: 24 x 32 x 0.1 cm  Year: 2018
Woman’s Portrait Study 5;
Oil on paper;
Size: 24 x 32 x 0.1 cm; 
2017.
In this artwork, I use, in a special way, some elements of art, such as light (value, luminosity), form and shape. I add one more procedure: the character’s face distortion to provoke an emotional tension on its face.
Study of a Portrait 25
Oil painting on paper
23 X 30.5 x 0.1 cm
 2020
Portrait Artwork
Study of an Anonymous Character 31
Crayon on paper
27 x 21 x 0.1 cm 
2017
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Crime Scene 5
Digital
27 x 20 cm
2019
Title: Study Head 4 Media: Oil and ink on paper Size: 24 x 32 x 0.1 cm  Year: 2018
Study of an Anonymous Character 29
Crayon on paper
Size: 27 x 21 x 0.1 cm 
2018
Title: Study Head 4 Media: Oil and ink on paper Size: 24 x 32 x 0.1 cm  Year: 2018
Head Study 3;
Oil on paper;
Size: 24 x 32 x 0.1 cm; 
2018.
Portrait Artwork
Crime Scene 10. Six Blade Knife.
Digital media
2020
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
I base this artwork on a screenshot from a true forensic documentary. This with deep respect for the implicated. As an artist, one of the things that calls my attention is the human experience after losing life, such as the physical changes the body suffers. And I add, the emotional states that a person must suffer during the lasts moments of its life.
Crime Scene 7. Another Angel in the Crowd
Digital painting
2019
 
Portrait Artwork
In the Morgue 4
Acrylic and color pencil on paper
97 x 67 x 0.1 cm
2020
Title: Study Head 4 Media: Oil and ink on paper Size: 24 x 32 x 0.1 cm  Year: 2018
Head Study 79;
Acrylic on canvas:;
125 x 102 x 3; cm; 
2009.
Title: Head Study 76 Media: Oil and ink on paper Size: 24 x 32 x 0.1 cm  Year: 2018
Head Study 76;
Acrylic on paper;
Size: 36 x 48 x 0.1 cm; 
2019.
n this artwork, I tried to picture a troubled character. 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”.
Man in Violet
Digital Art
2020

My Portrait Artwork

You're welcome to this Portrait Artwork collection.

I hope you enjoy this Portrait Artwork gallery where you can find diverse artworks done to special characters. Because I’m an artist with interests in figurative art, one thing that calls my attention is the man (referring to the human species) and its precarious conditions (temporality, decay...). So because of this, the man is the central topic of my work.

My Art Initial Resources

As an artist-in every portrait–, I use all the resources I have in hand. This means that to create an artwork I apply some of the following tools: human models, digital photography, video stills, radiology image archives, clay and also 3D (digital) sculptures (done by me), digital deformation, among others. In other words,  almost any media is an initial resource to paint a portrait! 

My Main Art Topics 

Therefore, the principal art topics I approach are the head structure and the facial features. I’m fascinated by the human face because it’s the most expressive body element that reveals the personality, character and temperament of a person. Consequently, I explore the technical diverse ways to solve a portraiture: front, three-quarter views, profile, etc..

Art Modalities

The modalities I use are traditional techniques (oil and acrylic, crayon, pencil, etc.) and digital painting (digital tablet, Photoshop, Illustrator, 3D sculpture in Blender, which is an open free software and clay sculpture, etc.). 

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