Jimi Hendrix
This art piece by Amber presents a stylized abstract portrait of a figure reminiscent of Jimi Hendrix, characterized by geometric shapes and a vivid collage of colors. It's a visual expression of the artist's internal emotional landscape, with each color and form translating a different facet of her feelings and reflections. Amber's technique involves layering acrylics, inks, and other mediums, then manipulating them manually—sometimes with a blow torch—to create a riot of colors that organically emerge and intertwine, much like the legendary musician's own innovative style fused various genres of music. Created in her Garland suburb studio in Dallas, the portrait is more than an homage to a music icon; it's a personal diary entry of Amber's, where Hendrix's dynamic persona and music are interwoven with her own emotional release and artistic intuition. The portrait stands as a testament to both Hendrix's enduring legacy and Amber's journey in art, where raw emotions are laid bare in bright, contrasting colors that seek to reveal the beauty and complexity within.
Dimensions: 18” x 24” x 0.75”
Materials Used: Acrylic, Paint
This art piece by Amber presents a stylized abstract portrait of a figure reminiscent of Jimi Hendrix, characterized by geometric shapes and a vivid collage of colors. It's a visual expression of the artist's internal emotional landscape, with each color and form translating a different facet of her feelings and reflections. Amber's technique involves layering acrylics, inks, and other mediums, then manipulating them manually—sometimes with a blow torch—to create a riot of colors that organically emerge and intertwine, much like the legendary musician's own innovative style fused various genres of music. Created in her Garland suburb studio in Dallas, the portrait is more than an homage to a music icon; it's a personal diary entry of Amber's, where Hendrix's dynamic persona and music are interwoven with her own emotional release and artistic intuition. The portrait stands as a testament to both Hendrix's enduring legacy and Amber's journey in art, where raw emotions are laid bare in bright, contrasting colors that seek to reveal the beauty and complexity within.
Dimensions: 18” x 24” x 0.75”
Materials Used: Acrylic, Paint
This art piece by Amber presents a stylized abstract portrait of a figure reminiscent of Jimi Hendrix, characterized by geometric shapes and a vivid collage of colors. It's a visual expression of the artist's internal emotional landscape, with each color and form translating a different facet of her feelings and reflections. Amber's technique involves layering acrylics, inks, and other mediums, then manipulating them manually—sometimes with a blow torch—to create a riot of colors that organically emerge and intertwine, much like the legendary musician's own innovative style fused various genres of music. Created in her Garland suburb studio in Dallas, the portrait is more than an homage to a music icon; it's a personal diary entry of Amber's, where Hendrix's dynamic persona and music are interwoven with her own emotional release and artistic intuition. The portrait stands as a testament to both Hendrix's enduring legacy and Amber's journey in art, where raw emotions are laid bare in bright, contrasting colors that seek to reveal the beauty and complexity within.
Dimensions: 18” x 24” x 0.75”
Materials Used: Acrylic, Paint
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Amber Mcneel
"If I could say in words what my paintings reveal about my inner feelings, my sequestered emotions finding escape in the dawn of description, I would have no need to paint. What is my nude silhouette art about? All I can say is that every painting starts with a compulsion to exhale emotions that are foreign, frightening, or frustrating. From there pure unadulterated emotion takes over and fingers and hands spread acrylic across a canvas leaving behind blaring echoes of my desires, my pains, my passions, and my very soul.
The bright colors attempt to hide the sorrow and heartaches just as I try to hide behind a smile in real life. Each painting is a page directly out of my personal diary, another tale of lovers lost, anger amplified, or damages long disguised. The celebrity abstract portrait series is how I see the world around me. The colors are meant to reflect how colorful and unique our personalities are and to show the beauty that resides within that color. The abstract mixed media series is done with acrylics, inks, and multiple mediums. The paint colors are stacked in one container then poured onto the surface of a board or canvas. Manual manipulation spreads the paint and a blow torch makes colors rise through each other to the top. The end result is a chaos of color that has made it's own course much like we each must do in life."
Amber is happily married to my soulmate Cody and live in the Garland suburb of Dallas. She began painting as a way to release pent up emotions and stress in 2009 after realizing how much emotion painting allowed me to release. She used art as a creative outlet ever since, painting mostly emotional silhouettes using acrylics, texture mediums, and just her hands and an occasional brush here and there. Amber prefers to feel the paint and let the emotion pour out of me onto the canvas. Her paintings are bright in color but full of raw emotion.
