Vusan' (man with a mustache)
Pastel on Paper
17x12in
$2,350
Framing
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Dan Makayda
Ukraine
Artist highlights
- Works on commission
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Artwork details
- Medium : Oil on Canvas
- Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 19.7x15.7in
About this artwork
An old man looks back at the viewer — not for pity, but as someone
who has earned the right to be seen. What drew me to him was the
texture of his face: a topography of decades, where every line is
a record of weather, work, and quiet endurance.
The painting is built with thick impasto and palette-knife marks,
deliberately echoing the roughness of the skin itself. The brush
does not describe his face — it repeats it. Cool ultramarine and
cobalt… anchor the cap and shoulders, while warm ochre and small
accents of cadmium red bring the face into life: the weather-burned
cheeks, the tired but steady eyes.
The background is intentionally unfinished. Bare canvas and rough
underpainting remain visible around the figure — a refusal to
complete what the world itself has left incomplete. He stands at
the edge of the frame and at the edge of the recorded life,
present but unwritten.
A small painting about the dignity that survives everything else.
who has earned the right to be seen. What drew me to him was the
texture of his face: a topography of decades, where every line is
a record of weather, work, and quiet endurance.
The painting is built with thick impasto and palette-knife marks,
deliberately echoing the roughness of the skin itself. The brush
does not describe his face — it repeats it. Cool ultramarine and
cobalt… anchor the cap and shoulders, while warm ochre and small
accents of cadmium red bring the face into life: the weather-burned
cheeks, the tired but steady eyes.
The background is intentionally unfinished. Bare canvas and rough
underpainting remain visible around the figure — a refusal to
complete what the world itself has left incomplete. He stands at
the edge of the frame and at the edge of the recorded life,
present but unwritten.
A small painting about the dignity that survives everything else.
Dan Makayda
Ukraine
Credentials
- Works on commission
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.
Dan Makayda
Unrecorded
$3,420
