I painted this amazing animal caught in the act of advancing silently, with plush step and straight and intense gaze. This work is made with oil colors on a canvas 80 cm x 100 cm. The animal stands out against a black background from which it emerges with its simple elegance.
This painting was exhibited at the "CAGED" exhibition at the Bartoli Felter Foundation for Art in Cagliari by Efisio Carbone, director of the MACC Museum.
All my paintings are entirely handmade and are unique and original pieces.
My artworks, of hyperrealistic and with a photographic style, have got as main subjects animals, mostly exotic ones such as elephants, giraffes or leopards, or typical of the Sardinian territory. I manage to highlight the details, meticulously cared for, and to focus attention on the subject, which is the only character of the work: the background, in fact, is absent, it is mostly monochrome and it emphasizes the focus on the animal, abstracting and extracting it from a real space.
My style is defined as pop - hyperrealism because the subjects are painted following a detailed technique, but their position in an unreal space gives the artworks features that are more typical of pop art, so hyperrealism and a graphic style melt. I use different techniques according to the subject and the effects I want to obtein.
Look at the gallery with all my paintings: https://www.tizianasanna.com/en/animals
Watch the video on Facebook of the realization:
https://www.facebook.com/100007172895231/videos/2014196878829389/
Some information about the panther, which exists in the black version and in the spotted version.
Black panther is the common name with which the black specimens (melanic variants) of some species of felids are indicated. Zoologically speaking, the term panther is synonymous with leopard. In North America the term panther is commonly used to indicate the puma; in Latin America it is most often used for the jaguar. Elsewhere in the world it refers to the leopard.
Black leopards have been spotted in the most densely forested areas of southwestern China, Burma, Assam and Nepal; around Travancore and other regions of southern India and are said to be common on the island of Java and in the southern part of the Malay peninsula, where they are more numerous than spotted leopards. They are less common in tropical Africa, but have been spotted in Ethiopia, in the forests of Mount Kenya and on the Aberdare. A specimen was seen by Peter Turnbull-Kemp in the Cameroon equatorial forest.
In jaguars the mutation is dominant and therefore black jaguars can arise even if only one of the parents is black. In leopards the mutation is recessive and some spotted leopards can procreate black cubs (if both parents carry the gene in hidden form), while black leopards if they mate together produce only black cubs.
In the photo: hyperrealistic painting of the panther made with oil colors on a canvas 80 cm x 100 cm by Tisha (Tiziana Sanna)
Ref. photo: Ana Vasileva