You know stay
true to yourself, this is not really a gimmick but you have to set yourself apart
from everyone else.
-James Henniger
Here’s the thing about James Henninger’s paintings, they are done in an ultra-real style but with a medium
that is so fantastically visionary and historical at the same time. James does encaustic paintings. Encaustic
painting is a 4,000 year old practice that uses hot bees wax with added
pigments to create art.
Through
James use of wax a ghostly and an ethereal facet is layered onto his
photorealistic portraiture like a thin gauze of fabric. Painting with this rare
medium his portraits create a sense of the fluidity of the human face. The dripping
strokes that created his portraits are all minuscule because he operates with
such fine precision and detail even on a very large scale.
James
is in the process of tackling color but I see no hurry for that because I love
how the monochrome black and white highlights the texture in his painting.
James paintings remind all artist to experiment with different mediums that
could yield a truly aspect perspective to your work and subject matter. For us
art viewers we look at his large wax paintings and are reminded that there is
not one way to be real and create realism in our lives.
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