Men portraits

A man's portrait that had no model. Anyway he reminds me of Vladimir Putin, by chance. Acrylic painting on canvas, 5"x7"

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An old man's portrait with lots of textures. Knife technique, acrylic on photographic paper with modeling paste. 5"x7". 

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Acrylic painting on postcards

 

A Christmas hand painted postcard. Acrylic on photographic paper. 

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Pine trees in a field of flowers. There is snow on the ground but the pines are bright green like the ones I have at home.

I have painted these postcards as part of my research and practice on Abstract Impressionism and Abstract Expressionism. The subject is whatever comes to my mind at the moment I am painting them.

Sympathy or funeral flowers postcard. Acrylic on photographic paper.

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This one has the feeling of a postcard for sympathy and it seems I am still doubting which side is the up and which is down. It is also related to Halloween season.

A field of yellow flowers Impressionist postcard. Acrylic on photographic paper.

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This postcard above is absolutely Impressionist, and has a lot of texture.

The technique for all: I begin with a non figurative colorful acrylic pour. I work on it with different impressions and then I finalize with a brush and sometimes markers.

A pregnant lady girl with flowers postcard. Acrylic on photographic paper.

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The pregnant girl is the result of a non figurative morphology under which I imagined the naive figure, the rounded belly, the wind in the hair, and the flowers which are an intentional touch of color and happiness in the overall gloomy blue.

Hippopotamus postcard art. Acrylic on photographic paper.

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The Hippopotamus is the only one intentional. I have taken the model from one of my pictures at the San Diego Zoo. The real Hippopotamus is brown but I preferred the blend of black, silver, white and purple, with touches of silver glitter.

Fractales de Abril. April fractals

This one I see it as a cross section of a kidney with a stone inside

A wound, right on white. Una herida, sobre el blanco

A bleeding wound, right on white. My photograph, January 2018

Una herida sangrante sobre el blanco. Mi foto de Enero 2018

Gajda. The medicine man

Gajda is a medicine man from Papua, New Guinea. The model has been taken from Kieron Nelson's splendid photograph. I'm thankful to Kieron because this is my first portrait and he allowed me to use this model. More practice is needed but I am still in the process of investigating techniques and color.

Acrylic on canvas, 20"x24"

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Remembering Marilyn Monroe. Recordando a Marilyn

One of my neighbors trashed an old classic poster of Marilyn Monroe. I couldn´t help myself, she looks so beautiful, I took some pictures of the poster, which is in bad condition and full of dust, and finally I decided to take it into my kitchen. I´m not sure what I´ll do with it. Maybe transform it into a piece of art.

María Antonieta? O mannequin francés

Fractal breasts 2. Senos fractales 2

Brain trapped in a net. Cerebro atrapado en una red

This is my artistic way to show a vegetative brain that is desperately looking for communication. Or two illustrations for news like this:

Neurologists are employing brain electrodes to try to establish contact with people in vegetative and minimally conscious states.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/neurological-rescue-mission-communicating-with-those-trapped-within-their-brains-a-677537.html

Woman´s belly button. Ombligo de mujer

Seno geométrico. Geometric breast

Seno geométrico. Geometric breast by Myriam B. Mahiques is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Escala Humana

Coloso. Pintura digital de Myriam B. Mahiques.

El turista disfrutaba de su tour por las ciudades más populares de Europa; o más bien se divertía posando frente a enormes edificios, cuya grandiosidad pétrea, él comparaba con su propia Shangai. En complicados ideogramas, meditaba que si los antiguos habían erigido sus templos hacia el cielo de los dioses, pues ellos también, y no tenían qué envidiarles.

Su ansiedad fotográfica, lo llevó luego a los pies del coloso, quien en un leve instante se le manifestó en su escala rotunda; y fue así que el turista, sintiendo su cuerpo absolutamente empequeñecido, derramó lágrimas por las civilizaciones perdidas.

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Nota al 7 de mayo de 2013:

He encontrado un excelente ejemplo para ilustrar este microrrelato, y demostrar la grandeza de las esculturas frente a la escala humana; se trata de una turista que toca los fragmentos de la escultura de Constantino en Roma, en diciembre de 1962. La foto pertenece a Robert Sisson y ha sido publicada en National Geographic.com

Translucent female body. Cuerpo femenino transparente

Translucent female body. Cuerpo femenino transparente by Myriam B. Mahiques is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Un ojo. One eye

Un ojo. One eye by Myriam B. Mahiques is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Corazón partido. Broken heart

Corazón partido. Broken heart by Myriam B. Mahiques is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Alien fetus growing inside a womb. Feto alienígeno creciendo dentro de un vientre

Alien fetus growing inside a womb. Feto alienígeno creciendo dentro de un vientre by Myriam B. Mahiques is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Fractal breasts. Senos fractales

Fractal breasts. Senos fractales by Myriam B. Mahiques is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Vertebrae structure. Estructura de vértebras

Vertebrae structure. Estructura de vértebras by Myriam B. Mahiques is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Woman in filigree. Mujer en filigrana

Uterus with embryo. Útero con embrión

This digital painting is pretty explicit. The red symbolizes the blood that the mother spreads when the baby is born. The uterus is like a hard shell that protects the luminosity of new life. The embryo is floating in light that is, in time, transferred to the mother.