Description
Faces – two looks out of the dark
Painting on canvas confronts the viewer with two large stylised faces on a wholly black ground, blue hair and warm orange-red skin held together by heavy black outlines — wall art with a graphic language and no surroundings at all.
Technique and texture
The colour is laid smooth, in even planes, with no visible texture — the opposite of the impasto pictures in this series. The outlines are drawn with a wide black stroke that holds everything together. The transitions on the cheeks are softly blurred from orange into yellow and blue-green, while the eyes and lips are the most carefully worked places.
The motif
The faces are set hard against the edges of the canvas so both are partly cut — the left one shows its left half, the right one its right. A narrow black gap is left between them. Both have straight-cut blue hair, a large blue eye under a strong brow and full lips. The ground behind them is completely black and empty.
Setting and placement
A graphic motif this strong needs quiet around it — a white or dark grey wall and few other pictures. It works in a living room, an entrance hall, a salon or a bar. Both faces are cut by the edges, which means the picture wants a wall narrow enough to feel like the crop continues past it.
- Technique: hand-painted painting on canvas, smooth even planes, wide black outlines, blurred cheek transitions, carefully worked eyes and lips
- Palette: black, blue, orange-red, yellow, blue-green
- Ideal for: living rooms, entrance halls, bars
- Character: graphic, frontal, bold
Choose the size that suits your wall.
The video on this page (0:39) opens close on an eye and the blue hair, where a brush adds a few more strokes, then shows the whole painting Faces in a light wooden frame among frame samples and the corner of the frame, and ends on close-ups of an eye and of the orange areas with their black outlines.
Faces: sizes, hanging and delivery
Faces is painted in 16 upright sizes, from 40 x 50 to 180 x 225 cm. Because the canvas edge cuts through both faces, they suit a narrow wall where the crop seems to carry on: 50 x 70 or 60 x 80 cm between windows or in an entrance hall, 60 x 80 cm above a 90 cm console, about two thirds of its width, 75 x 100 or 90 x 120 cm beside a wardrobe or a living-room door, and 120 x 150 or 130 x 160 cm on a tall wall in a salon or bar.
Once you pick YES under Stretcher, the black-ground canvas with its blue-haired faces comes stretched on a wooden stretcher, ready to hang. Faces does not include a frame, but the Frame menu, starting at Without frame, lets you add one. Delivery is 15–45 days. The smooth planes and wide black outlines are hand-painted with a brush, so this painting is not a print.
Answers about Faces
Which size of Faces suits an entrance hall?
For a narrow entrance-hall wall we suggest 60 x 80 or 75 x 100 cm; the black ground wants a white or dark grey wall with nothing else hung around it.
Does Faces come ready to hang?
Yes – the canvas with the blue hair and orange skin is stretched on a wooden stretcher before it ships if you choose YES under Stretcher.
Is Faces a print?
No, it is hand-painted, with the orange-red skin, blue hair and black outlines laid on with a brush in smooth planes.
Can I order Faces in a size beyond the 16 listed?
For a different wall measurement, ask us about a painting made to order and tell us how wide and tall the crop with the two faces should be.
