HARD CANDY

I love portrait as a classic genre in painting. Sometimes in my style I paint portraits on commission. But frankly, I prefer to paint portraits of people I have never seen. Which I can imagine in my imagination and endow with features that interest me. Create a portrait as a generalised character, as a person living in an imaginary world. So, I never met a woman painted in this artwork, I don’t know why she holds candy in her hand and why does she have a cap on her head, as if there is a invisible holiday fest somewhere.She listens intently to herself, but I do not know what her thoughts are about. Items located next to her also do not give clues to the viewer. The portrait turned out thin, exact, stylish and with irony. I painted this story twice, trying to find the personal touch of a character through movement, gesture, color, clothes. This is the second version. As in most of my artworks, I used the style of the 20s-30s of the last century, which I feel very close to me both in spirit and in design. This painting is part of my 2019 Festive Promenade collection.

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