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Carnival is in the air! Mardi Gras, music, festivals, mysterious krewes, ancient rituals and celebrations. Benny's last name Comus, refers to the Greek God, Comus, who is God of festivity and laughter. Yet, in this line drawing, Benny Comus is a mercurial jazz musician that I invented, a Caribbean man, a singer and a maracas player in the fictional band, 'The Juanita All-Stars'. As a lover of literature and storytelling, I view portraiture as intuitive illustration, or an expressive, character driven study attached to a larger narrative. I created this drawing on 8" x 8" watercolor paper with acrylic paint and then drew on top of it with brush pen and ink. Packaged securely in a box.
Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper
Size:10 W x 10 H x 0.1 D in
Size with Frame:15.25 W x 15.25 H x 1.2 D in
Frame:White
Ready to Hang:Yes
Packaging:Ships in a Box
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I am a Caribbean-American Artist born and raised in New York City. Through my expressionistic use of line and/or color, I enjoy celebrating the musical, melodramatic, multi-cultural and enigmatic spirit of Carnival in my drawings and paintings. In my work, I seem drawn to characters and scenes that express conditions of longing, nostalgia and grief connected to the desire to carry on and experience pleasure, joy and even ecstatic states. I am quite in awe of the strength of the human spirit! From illustration to portraiture, I focus on expressing character and personality inherent in live models as well as imagined beings engaged in scenes that tell wordless, poetic stories. As a creative writer and visual artist, I often enjoy drawing or painting on small surfaces from 4" x 6" up to 11" x 14" as though I am writing these expressionistic stories. And, indeed there is such a 'fine line' between drawing, painting and writing. I am as inspired by Rembrandt, Matisse, Marc Chagall, Otto Dix, George Grosz, John Singer Sargent, Edgar Degas, Remedios Varo, Winsor Mckay, Jackie Ormes, Laura James, as I am many literary influences such as Zora Neale Hurston, Jamaica Kincaid, Jean Toomer, Bruno Schulz, Jean Rhys, Pablo Neruda.
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