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Other details :
Artwork on supported wooden frame. Framing on request.
Dimensions :
19.7x15.7in
About this artwork
Emerging from deep teal darkness, a figure materializes — a wide-brimmed hat, weathered features, a pipe glowing with amber light. Smoke coils upward, dissolving between breath and spell.
Painted without references, driven purely by intuition, this portrait channels the Jungian archetype of the Wise Old Man — the inner guide who stands at the threshold between the known and the unknown. Ancient, not merely old. Carrying knowledge beyond reason.
The… cold, phosphorescent blue strips away the superficial, leaving only essence. One eye gleams with cool intelligence, the other burns with something wilder. Wisdom and sorcery held in one gaze.
This is not a portrait of a man. It is a portrait of something that lives within us all.
Dan Makayda (D.K., dan.makayda) is a self-taught painter working primarily in oil on linen canvas and dry pastel on black paper, shaped by both instinct and recent mentorship. His techniques merge Impressionism and Expressionism, with gestural, confident brushwork, bold impasto textures, and intense, often warm color palettes, favoring visible strokes over seamless blending. His portraits render the human face as an expressive landscape, evoking vulnerability, resilience, and a visceral emotional energy that aims to be felt before understood.
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The Sage, the Sorcerer
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