Upside-down Print

I loved the movie Upside-down and the music of Syd Matters. The living model I work with made me think about it. This is a mixed technique of ink drawing and acrylic ink painting on aquarelle paper. I worked with a living model moving slowly during the session. I also used a hand-made colapen tool that diffuse ink freely on the background. Why does my latest artworks focus on the body ? I started by drawing human bodies as a challenging training about ten years ago. But after several years of practice, I realized that each body is like an endless exotic world to explore. No human shape can totally seal nor unveil what is inside. When I cannot travel to discover other countries, I am „mapping“ bodies in my atelier. My work with the living model is a permanent challenge to capture more than just a face and shape. The body is also a messenger of our hidden singularity. How relevant is our first impression compared to a deeper immersion in somebody’s life? Our accomplishments, our roots and wounds, our delights or fears are encrypted in our anatomy and faces. My objective is to capture a part of this intrinsic and hidden identity. I always loved to explore the hidden side of my first perception. Maybe it is a fragment of this 20-year-long experience behind the Iron Curtain where everything was just a fake and propaganda. I have learned to analyze closely all little signs to understand better each person in front of me. It was a survival instinct to go beyond appearances. Maybe this passion to map bodies come from this period, maybe not. By the way, the body is also a good stimulus to develop analogic thinking. Which is a nice way to create something individual. How to get it? You can print this image on fine art paper or on canvas. The canvas prints are museum grade Giclée reproductions, matte textured (20,5 mil), bright white, poly-cotton blend with no additives and no agents. Fine Art Paper is European-made. It has a natural white finish with a slightly structured, soft-textured surface, similar to traditional watercolor or etching paper. No bleach is used for whitening. It is 310 GSM, 100% Cotton linters (short fibers) and archival quality. Each Fine Art Paper Print carries an additional 3” white paper border. For example, if a 16” x 20” image is ordered, the outside trim size of the paper will be 22” x 26”. For this image, I would recommend to print on fine art paper to be closer to the original texture and to feel the transparency of colors. The quality of the image allows you to print in bigger size than the original painting. It works very well, I did it for myself. if you buy the original painting,you have to know that I sign always in the back of the drawings with my logo and my original stamp HanaG. I also send you a certificate.