Art Portfolio · Made by Hand · 2025–2026

Renaira's
Art
Portfolio

Painting · Printmaking · Photoshoot References · German Expressionism · Relief & Mono-Prints

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Colourful face painting development Expressive face artwork Turtle sketch in watercolour Mono-print shells
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Series & Studies

Abstract painting with oil pastels
Painting
Emotion & Technique
Rachel Jones inspired study
Artist Study
Rachel Jones
German Expressionist print styles
Printmaking
German Expressionism
Relief prints — Pyramid of Skulls
Relief Print
Pyramid of Skulls
Mono-prints
Mono-Print
Shell Studies
Photoshoot References
Photography Study
Photoshoot References
Large colourful face painting
Development · Oil Pastels & Acrylics

Expressive
Face
Paintings

Inspired by the bold, layered style of Rachel Jones, Renaira built this work through scraffito, impasto, and scumbling techniques — mixing acrylics and oil pastels to create rich gradients that express complex emotional states. The large scale demanded precision in proportion: getting the mouth, teeth, gums, and facial features to sit naturally together.

Scraffito Impasto Layering Scumbling

"I used many techniques: layering, mixing colours, scraffito, to express more complicated feelings."

Renaira, on her face painting series

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Artist Studies

Rachel Jones artist study page
Artist Research

Rachel
Jones

Rachel Jones is a celebrated British contemporary painter known for large-scale abstract works exploring Black identity through motifs like teeth and landscapes. Renaira researched her vibrant, celebratory colour palette — neon yellow, green, blue, purple — and her use of oil paints with layering techniques to create artworks rich in meaning and cultural depth.

Celebration Community Feelings Culture
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Process Work

Photoshoot reference page 2
Development spread
Painting techniques swatches
Rachel Jones study
German Expressionist print study 2
Relief prints spread
Relief print closeup
Karl Blossfeldt study
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Printmaking

Relief print — skulls
Relief print spread
Blue relief prints trio
Mono-print shells page
Mono-print closeup
German Expressionist print styles page
German Expressionist print 2
Observational Drawing

Sketches &
Studies

From a charcoal shell study informed by Karl Blossfeldt's macro photography of natural forms, to a carefully constructed turtle sketch built up with construction lines, basic tones and emphasis — Renaira's sketchbook shows a rigorous observational practice underpinning all her expressive work.

Charcoal Watercolour Karl Blossfeldt Construction Lines
Turtle and shell sketches