Painting titled "Off With Their Head…" by Shanzay Subzwari, Original Artwork, Gouache

Off With Their Heads by Shanzay Subzwari (2018) Painting by Shanzay Subzwari

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Original Artwork Painting, Gouache / Watercolor on Paper

Artworks classification

Original Artwork

Original Artwork refers to any work that is considered authentic and not a copy or imitation of the original works of an artist. Original artwork can be any type of painting, sculpture, performance, or other media. There are many types of original media. Mixed media includes oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings. For workshop paintings that bear evidence of master craftsmanship, this attribution must be further qualified. While they may be less valuable for different reasons, reproductions and copies have had a tremendous impact on our experience. They reach a greater audience than originals and act as a tonic against commodification. Original Artwork could also refer to the first work, which is always preceding all others. It could also refer to a prototype or a model from which other works can be made. Each work bears great similarities to the original.
Dimensions Height 9in, Width 7in
Categories Paintings under $5,000 Abstract

Off with their heads!, 7x9 inches, mixed media on paper, 2018 A humorous take on the Red Queen's anger and how cupid is trying to soften it by aiming at her with his arrow of love. Also how the world needs more love in today's harrowing world. This (and similar) illustrations have been inspired by the original illustrations[...]

Off with their heads!, 7x9 inches, mixed media on paper, 2018

A humorous take on the Red Queen's anger and how cupid is trying to soften it by aiming at her with his arrow of love. Also how the world needs more love in today's harrowing world.
This (and similar) illustrations have been inspired by the original illustrations of Alice in Wonderland as appeared in the earliest versions of the books. This was how the Queen was depicted by Sir John Tenniel.

About this artwork: Classification, Techniques & Styles

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.

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.

Technic Painting

Painting is an art form of painting on a surface by aesthetically applying colored fluids. Painters represent a very personal expression on supports such as paper, rock, canvas, wood, bark, glass, concrete and many other substrates. Work of representation or invention, painting can be naturalistic and figurative, or abstract. It can have narrative, descriptive, symbolic, spiritual, or philosophical content.