Expressive Whimsical Portraits by Rebecca Berman I Artsy Shark

Painter Rebecca Berman produces dreamy whimsical characters with expressive eyes. Delight in her portfolio and check out additional artwork on her site.

“Fern” acrylic on board, 8″ x 8″

I love a fantastic tale. If I really don’t comprehend someone’s actions, I make up a backstory to fill the void. I make up small anecdotes in my head about persons all over my day.

“Wallflower, However Life” acrylic on canvas, 30″ x 24″

Soon after having lower off by an intense driver, I’ll say to myself, “Ah, he’s in all probability speeding home to his sick grandmother or his cat…or probably his grandmother’s sick cat.” I use these tales, not only to amuse myself, but also to ignite my have compassion.

“Same Roots, Diverse Blooms” acrylic on canvas, 36″ x 36″

Even if they are silly, outlandish, or just plain incorrect, these small imagined narratives make it less difficult for me to give men and women the gain of the doubt. I in the end feel far more linked.

“The Girl in the Yellow Raincoat” acrylic on canvas, 20″ x 16″

I use backstories to give lifetime to the figures I paint and sculpt as well. These are loosely centered on my individual human activities, and bolstered by my creativity. I produce situations, emotions and viewpoints for my subjects. After I forge a link to their stories, the generating element gets a whole lot less difficult.

“Lucy” acrylic on board, 14″ x 11″

Just like my fabricated clarification about the impatient driver, the tales I weave in the course of my artwork don’t have to be sensible to be relatable. In fact, I appreciate distorting my characters’ features—giant eyes and tiny mouths make repeated appearances. However, I attempt to make them experience serious. Then viewers can identify the humanity in just them.

“She Selected to Truly feel the Warmth” acrylic on canvas, 30″ x 15″

No matter whether I’m portray an adoring chicken or sculpting a head growing out of a vase, my aim is for other individuals to engage with and in the end relate to the compact human stories inside them.

“She Carried the Key to Her Possess Heart” acrylic on canvas, 24″ x 20″

My purpose isn’t for them to say, “Oh, which is very!” In its place, I want them to realize some emotion and induce empathy. “Oh, bless her coronary heart!” or “Oh, she reminds me of my sister…I just appreciate her!”

“Sonora’s Heart” acrylic on canvas, 24″ x 20″

Starting to be an artist was a course of action of composing myself again into my possess story. After a career in health care and training, I found that getting an artist allowed me to take pleasure in my own one of a kind perspective and to focus on the psychological complexity of humans which has constantly fascinated me.

“Too Much Fun” acrylic on canvas, 20″ x 16″

Our life surface so linear. Yet, with just a glimpse below the area, we see the intricacy—our minds and hearts taking turns steering the ship, our stories, genuine and imagined, overlapping and intermingling. My art explores these little times, established in just the web of the elaborate human expertise.

One particular of the best things about portray and sculpting smaller human moments is that I’ll in no way run out of substance. With people, there’s generally a backstory.

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