P7-pride by Adam Rehama
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Medium: Pencil drawing
Dimensions: 29.7 x 42 cm
Year: 2025
Price: $500.00 USD
Status: available
This pencil drawing, titled "P7-pride," is a striking portrait rendered on A3 paper. The artist employs a meticulous technique, capturing the subject with a series of fine, controlled lines and subtle shading. The composition is dominated by the figure's face, adorned with intricate headgear and jewelry, which are depicted with remarkable detail. The contrast between the dark, textured background and the illuminated features of the subject creates a compelling chiaroscuro effect, emphasizing the contours and expressions of the face. The emotional impact of the piece is profound, with the subject exuding a sense of dignity and strength. The artist's approach to texture and detail invites the viewer to explore the cultural elements represented in the adornments, adding layers of depth to the work. The intensity of the gaze and the careful rendering of light and shadow imbue the portrait with a lifelike presence, making it both captivating and thought-provoking. For collectors, this piece offers a unique blend of technical skill and emotional resonance. Its detailed execution and the cultural richness it conveys make it a valuable addition to any collection focused on portraiture or works that explore identity and heritage.
Why collect this work?
P7-pride sets softly modelled facial features against densely patterned adornment, making the portrait hinge on the contrast between bodily presence and graphic structure.
- The artist states that recent pencil portraits pursue the distinctiveness of faces across character, emotion and ethnicity. Here, specificity emerges through the sitter’s three-quarter turn and composed expression rather than through any stated identity.
- In the photograph, the head nearly fills the sheet. Patterned bands frame the forehead and neck, while a large circular ornament anchors the lower composition; the parted lips and sidelong eyes keep the pose from becoming fully frontal or fixed.
- The documented pencil medium allows exposed paper, fine hatching and dense graphite to operate together. Light passages across the forehead, cheek and neck stand out because the surrounding background and shadows are worked more heavily.
- Dated 2025 and made on A3 paper, the drawing supports discussion of how portraiture can register an individual face while withholding the sitter’s name and the precise cultural identity of the adornment.
About the Artist
Adam Rehama
Adam Rehama is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: drawing. Based in Ajman , Sudan.
Nationality: Sudanese
I've been practicing all kind of painting and drawing with different material such pencils watercolor acrilic and oil color with different methods...
