Hi friends I’ll show you my new painting: is a lion entirely hand painted on a 100 cm x 100 cm canvas with acrylic colors.
I chose to paint it in black and white to emphasize its thick and wrinkled skin. To draw the drawing I used charcoal; then I went through every single line with acrylic colors. I highlighted the clear contrasts by emphasizing the lights and shadows to achieve a very realistic result. For the bottom I used a monochrome black laid out flat, because I wanted a very modern result where the elephant was the only protagonist of the picture.
This painting was exhibited in 2019 at the exhibition "Shades of art" at the Mazzoleni Foundation Gallery
(see https://www.tizianasanna.com/en/exhibition-Fondazione-Mazzoleni and https://www.tizianasanna.com/en/exhibitions).
Watch the video on Instagram with some stages of the realization:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B2rHA7loCSr/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Watch the video on Facebook with some stages of the realization:
https://www.facebook.com/100007172895231/videos/2274385316143876/
Look at the gallery with all my paintings: https://www.tizianasanna.com/en/animals
All my paintings are entirely handpainted and are unique and original pieces with a certificate of authenticity.
I use colors and materials of the best brands, large and high quality canvases mounted on a 4 cm thick frame. The painting continues on all edges and is immediately ready to be exhibited in the environment you prefer.
The result is a very modern work of the highest quality, with attention to every detail.
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.
Some information about the elephant
Elephants are the largest mammals on earth that live on land. There are two species of elephants and some subspecies that live in different habitats: the African savannah elephant (Loxodonta africana) and the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus).
The savannah elephant (Loxodonta africana) can reach up to 7 meters in length and weigh as many as 7 tons.
In the wild it can live up to 50 years, it usually perishes only after having lost the last few teeth that wear out and is no longer able to feed itself; in captivity, elephants can live even longer as breeders also take care of their mouth and teeth.
The savannah elephant is an endangered species and, as often happens, the greatest threat is posed by poachers and the urbanization of their natural habitat.
There are four subspecies of the Asian elephant: the Sri Lankan elephant (Elephas maximus maximus), the Indian elephant (Elephas maximus indicus), the Sumatran elephant (Elephas maximus sumatranus) and the Borneo elephant (Elephas maximus borneensis ).
This wonderful animal lives in tropical regions and in the prairies in India, Iraq, China and in Southeast Asia such as the islands of Sri Lanka and Indonesia.
The Asian elephant is in serious danger of extinction: many specimens for this reason live in captivity (especially the Indian elephant specimens).
In the photo: hyperrealistic elephant painting made with a mixed technique on a canvas 100 cm x 100 cm by Tisha (Tiziana Sanna)