Drop 2 - PORTRAITURA
What is a portrait? What is a face..
Every person has two portraits.
The figure, the silhouette, the way they hold and move their body. And the face. Either one communicates you completely. Somehow there is a smaller you inside your face.
Is it not weird that you can look at a face and feel you see someone in their entirety?
Humans! Other humans. The worst! The best. Hell is other people, and there is nothing more useful to a man than another man. Stuck on this earth, in this life, with all these other glorious assholes. At least you'll have someone to dance with.
Ah the face. The face is a flower and we are bees, colourful and intense, inviting, repulsive, unreasonably captivating. Lock eyes by accident even for a moment and feel the sticky capture. Feel the effort it takes to peel yourself from the eyes. Spooky attraction at a distance, electromagnetism of two souls.
The face. Radar station of information, broadcasting and telegraphing state and intent. See safe disinterest, warm affection or burning furious danger. Every day go and judge intent. Passport of the soul, it lists everything: your age, demeanor, the surface temperature of your thoughts.
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This is the bread and butter, the party trick: Rostov draws a face. Machine of making faces, can't stop making faces. There are not enough faces in the world, I can help with this, let me make more faces. Let me make your face.
5 Paintings, 5 Sketches and 5 Portraits of You
Standard Edition
High quality giclee print on acid free paper, resistant to aging and fading. Numbered, titled to the series, and signed.
Sold unframed, shown here in an IKEA frame for demonstration purposes.
Patron Edition
Limited to 5 ever in the history of the universe. Each step closer to #1 goes up in price.
You receive a large, hand framed fine art object, mounted on aluminum composite panel, protected under museum-grade glass, a certificate of authenticity, and 3 original hand drawn sketches.
Print Numbering
Numbers 1-5 are reserved for Patron Editions. Larger prints in handmade frames under museum-grade glass, limited to five ever. Each comes with a certificate, a thank-you note, and a few hand-drawn sketches. For the patron of the art, patron of my art.
Nr 6 I keep for myself, the artist copy. If one is ever spotted in the wild suspect thievery or close friendship.
Standard Series begins at 7 and goes up every purchase, until the end of the sale, and will never be printed again under current series title.
Your print will read something like:
"Somber" (2023) - #7 - PORTRAITURA - 2026 - RSTV
Print Numbering
Numbers 1-5 are reserved for Patron Editions. Larger prints in handmade frames under museum-grade glass, limited to five ever. Each comes with a certificate, a thank-you note, and a few hand-drawn sketches. For the patron of the art, patron of my art.
Nr 6 I keep for myself, the artist copy. If one is ever spotted in the wild suspect thievery or close friendship.
Standard Series begins at 7 and goes up every purchase, until the end of the sale, and will never be printed again under current series title.
Your print will read something like:
"Somber" (2023) - #7 - PORTRAITURA - 2026 - RSTV
Standard Edition
High quality giclee print on acid free paper, resistant to aging and fading. Numbered, titled to the series, and signed. Limited to the duration of the sale and never to be sold under this series again.
Patron Edition
Limited to 5 prints ever in the history of the universe. Each step closer to #1 goes up in price.
You get a large, hand framed fine art object under museum-grade glass, a certificate of authenticity, and 3 original hand drawn sketches.
Buying Patron signals wealth, taste, and patronship. It supports the studio, covering rent and materials, making future work possible, and blesses your household. The smaller the number, the cooler.
Standard Edition
High quality giclee print on acid free paper, resistant to aging and fading. Numbered, titled to the series, and signed.
Sold unframed, shown here in an IKEA frame for demonstration purposes.
Patron Edition
Limited to 5 ever in the history of the universe. Each step closer to #1 goes up in price.
You receive a large, hand framed fine art object, mounted on aluminum composite panel, protected under museum-grade glass, a certificate of authenticity, and 3 original hand drawn sketches.