Drawing titled "Portrait of a Lady…" by Maria Cristina Cerminara, Original Artwork, Watercolor Mounted on Cardboard

Portrait of a Lady on Shell (2020) Drawing by Maria Cristina Cerminara

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Original Artwork (One Of A Kind) Drawing, Watercolor / Gouache / Pencil / Conté / Pigments / Collages on Cardboard

Artworks classification

One of a kind (OOAK / Original Artwork)

One-of-a-kind works of art are also known as “OOAK” artworks. This means that every work of art is unique and there will never be another identical one.
Dimensions Height 6.9in, Width 4.7in
Framing This artwork is not framed
Categories Drawings under $500 Figurative

I love decorating and painting on shells because naturale elements are a very important part of my art works. Shells are among my favorite natural jewels and I create series of drawing and painting or collages on their beautiful surface. I decided to create a serie dedicated to love and women and i painted these subjects on the shell surface.[...]

I love decorating and painting on shells because naturale elements are a very important part of my art works.
Shells are among my favorite natural jewels and I create series of drawing and painting or collages on their beautiful surface.
I decided to create a serie dedicated to love and women and i painted these subjects on the shell surface. After the painting I place the the shell inside a decorated cardboard box ready to be hanged on walls. They become in this way also an assemblage.

About this artwork: Classification, Techniques & Styles

Watercolor

Watercolor is a painting in which gum arabic binds transparent pigments revealing the support of the painting. The gouache, of identical composition, is opaque. A watercolor is a water-based painting on paper. We rarely speak of a painting for a work painted in watercolor. Watercolor paintings are considered to be a unique way to creatively represent dreams, illusions, emotions and luminous feelings using water soluble pigments. However, painting with watercolors can be difficult. It's a difficult medium to master, in large part because it can be ruthless and unpredictable. Mistakes are difficult to correct and its fluid nature makes it difficult to control. Yet it is these very qualities that give the medium its undeniable charm.

Gouache

The substances are diluted with water and rendered pasty and opaque by the addition of gum and honey. The colors become opaque and can, therefore, be superimposed, which makes one paint with gouache as with oil. The gouache is recommended by its bright, fresh and delicate tones.

Conté

Colored drawing made with colored pencil, an instrument made of a small wooden stick used as a sheath for a colored mine of the same length.

Pigments

Paint made with colored powder suspended in a liquid binder to obtain some paint or ink.

Collages

Collage is an artistic creation technique that consists of making a plastic creation by combining elements of various kinds: more or less flat materials, such as printed oilcloth, painting or drawing, newspaper extracts with text and photos, paper paintings, documents, various objects of low relief, etc. When the creation incorporates elements in relief, one can also speak of assemblage. This also includes glued papers, which employ a variety of papers, including newspaper, and drawing techniques.

Figurative

Figurative and colorful painting having taken the liberty of including all forms of art without border of cultural genre and geographic origin, without hierarchy of values between high and subculture.

Technic Drawing

Drawing is a technique of visual representation on a flat support. The term "drawing" designates both the action of drawing, the resulting graphic work, and the shape of any object. It is also a representation on a surface of the shape (and possibly the light and shadow values) of an object or figure, rather than their color. There are a large number of drawing techniques: “Linear drawing” represents objects by their outlines, edges and some characteristic lines; beyond this limit, the drawing develops by representing the volume by shadows, often by means of hatching, incorporates colors, and joins, without clear transition, the painting.

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Maria Cristina Cerminara

Italy

I’m a drawer,painter and multidisciplinary artist based in Rome were I was born. After many years studying and working abroad I now live in Rome where I concentrate my research on drawing techniques,[...]