Kaynil's Paintings

Hahahah! I was like "Finally, someone else comments on my paintings! I made that thread so long ago"... then I realised the thread never existed because I never really shared my paintings. I only have like two of them, hahah.
What gives? :XD:

Oh, well, might as well start... Oh, Look! The same I probably already showed here sometime ago:
That's Rey Mysterio.

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It looks pretty cool, and I am ashamed that I don't remember much from the art classes I took, as to make a more in-depth analysis of it.

Thank you. That is fine I am just happy you took the time to comment on it.

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Challenge accepted.

Game on! :-D

Quote from Queen Legend

It is made with someone's feelings.

You are correct. It is a bit of an emotional piece. I wanted for my first acrylic to make something mexican that wasn't as cliché. Something important to me. Being in Australia I want to hold to my Mexican roots.

It looks great.
I am really bad at art but even I know good art when I see it
Keep up the good job kaynil!

Thank you, guys! This is pretty inspiring for me.
I definitely will show you more of what I come up with when I can. :-D

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Could've just drew a taco.

Is this one cliché enough? [GALLERY=media, 55]Mexa Taco by Kaynil posted Nov 14, 2015 at 2:47 PM[/GALLERY]

The second one is too crappy to feel proud to show but too spontaneous to feel i can reproduce it again.
It's night time now but tomorrow I'll take a picture and show you the stuff I have done but not finished yet.
Nothing exciting.

Yo! Guys!. I have been trying to show you this for ages, but I always had an error message, tapatalk or computer which eventually made me gave up. Today I had another go, got the errors and just print screen the thing and tried again. Pretty ridiculous approach but somehow it worked.

This is the second one. I think for first time online. Like I said not very happy with the execution. Mostly the skull, way too dark although I was trying to make the "smile" to stand out.
I was basically trying to do my own spin on "La Catrina". La Catrina is a well dressed "skull" from somewhere around the first decades of the XX century. It has evolved somewhat since then but the original drawing, for a newspaper is still the most known one. The message basically is that death makes no distinction. No matter how much class or money you got, we all going to share the same end. So it was a small jab to the elite of Mexico feeling superior by reminding them of this.

Behind 'her' There's some cempasúchil (Marigolds). In mexico that flower is linked to the Day of the Death and many people buy and bring to the tombs these flowers. It's name means 20 (petal) flower in Nahuatl. If I recall correctly the reason for its use in altars is because it is reminiscent of the Sun. The sun was believed by the Aztecs to guide the souls of our ancestors. In some regions they make a way from the doorstep to the altar with the petals. Originally I had filled the picture with them but the later on decided against. I still couldn't come with anything else to feature as the background so I just left it like that.