paintings by Julie Zarate (six06)

I discovered this artist on Flickr and immediately fell in love with her stylized iconic lady-portraits. The combination of bright white faces, as if they're masks, and blood red with pitch black and golden tones is very dramatic. I like how in some of her paintings, the faces are painted in with skeleton face painting, it reminds me of Día de los Muertos, and that is always a good thing (remember, I'm a goth and all that).

Aww look at her black skeleton hole painted nose, isn't it great?:

I love ornamental hair like in this painting:


Check out the artist's website.