Revealing Struggles and Joy, Expressive Portraits Are Superimposed onto Watercolor Foliage — Colossal

Revealing Struggles and Joy, Expressive Portraits Are Superimposed onto Watercolor Foliage — Colossal


Revealing Struggles and Joy, Expressive Portraits Are Superimposed onto Watercolor Foliage — Colossal

Spanish artist Àngela Maria Sierra, who works as Riso Chan, explores the human psyche through subtly layered foliage. “I always imagine that they are someone’s soul, what we don’t see, our nature,” Sierra says of the delicate botanical assemblages that she overlays onto her subjects’ faces and torsos. Each portrait begins with a focus on texture and pattern as the artist paints clusters of twigs and leaves with watercolor. She then scans those botanical elements and uses Procreate to superimpose the figure onto the original piece. More

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