Midnight in Old Havana Metal Print

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"Midnight in Old Havana"

A a man in a white fedora as seen from behind walks down the streets of Old Havana in the 1950s, a time when the mob ruled the streets, the stars filled the casinos, and the mamba was the soundtrack everywhere. I used a contemporary pointillist style and vivid colors of red, blue, orange, yellow, purple and white for my surrealist Cuban portrait, which is based on a photograph.

Copyright 2018 Susan Maxwell Schmidt, all rights reserved.

My mind lives in a rather strange world of its own, in a state which I tend to refer to as "delightfully twisted." Through my art, which I am vehemently determined to continue to create with as little outside influence as possible, I work tirelessly to interpret the concepts my mind creates in a moment-by-moment barrage of ideas that always seem to come faster than I can realize them in a tangible form. Though my artwork over the past 40 years has evolved from my early days of shooting on film to manifesting itself in many different forms of more contemporary media, from the delicate transparency of digital watercolor, to the no-holds-barred starkness of noir digital photography, to even the fanciful abstract-turned-conceptual properties...