La Mama - Scarlet Gaze - XL - 1/1
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La Mama’s original 1/1 XL artwork Scarlet Gaze is a mixed-media giclée on premium canvas (46 × 66 cm), hand-signed, produced in France, dated 2020 or later, featuring AI-assisted creation and a 3 cm white border.
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Scarlet Gaze by La Mama – A unique original artwork 1/1 XL – Artist’s Proof (EA)
A single glance is enough. Everything else seems to have been painted around it.
In Scarlet Gaze, La Mama deliberately moves away from the traditional portrait universe toward a more contemporary, nerve-wracking, and graphic form of writing. The female face appears through a succession of black lines, erased areas, and broad red interventions, as if several layers of the same image had been revealed and then covered again.
Yet the gaze remains perfectly legible. Intense, frontal, almost magnetic, it cuts through the apparent chaos of the composition and becomes its true anchor point. The hand resting against the face adds a more intimate dimension, while the red lips extend the work’s chromatic language.
Scarlet Gaze thus explores the boundary between portrait, drawing, and abstraction. A work built on the tension between control and spontaneity, where the image seems to appear and disappear under the traces of creation.
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About the work
• Title: Scarlet Gaze
• Artist: La Mama
• Edition: Unique original artwork 1/1 – Artist’s Proof (EA), part of a limited edition of 6 copies
• Format: XL – 46 × 66 cm
• Border: Additional white border of 3 cm included
• Support: High-definition Fine Art printing on premium canvas – no print on paper
• Technique: Digital creation combining AI, digital painting, drawing, and manual retouching under Adobe Photoshop with a graphics tablet
• Condition: New
• Authenticity: Certificate of authenticity provided exclusively by email
• Framing: Artwork sold unframed and without a frame
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A digital artisan’s craft
The construction of Scarlet Gaze rests on a digital creation process that combines the use of AI as a creation tool with extensive manual painting and digital retouching by the artist.
AI contributes to shaping the visual base of the work. From this base, La Mama personally continues the creation in Adobe Photoshop, using a graphics tablet, for several hours.
The composition then relies on a meticulous layering of visual textures, lines, and fragmented zones. The black lines evoke charcoal and preparatory drawing, while the broad red interventions recall more spontaneous painting gestures.
Some parts of the face are deliberately preserved, while others are covered, reworked, or partially erased to create a tension between precision and freedom.
La Mama works directly on the graphics tablet like a painter before a canvas. She manually adjusts volumes, lights, textures, contours, and painterly gestures, layer after layer, until the sought balance is reached.
The process notably includes digital painting, correction and reconstruction of certain areas, work on the face and hand, modification of materials, textures, light, colors and contrasts, as well as overall finishes of the composition.
AI is thus one of the tools used in the creative process, while the final appearance of the work also results from many hours of manual intervention and artistic choices made by La Mama.
In Scarlet Gaze, red acts as a true visual signature. It runs across the forehead, eyes, and lips before dispersing through the work as traces, tensions, and bursts.
The deliberately limited palette to red, black, white, and gray further enhances its graphic impact and gives the whole piece a strong, instantly recognizable identity.
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About the edition
This exemplar constitutes the unique Artist’s Proof (EA) 1/1, associated with a limited edition of only six copies.
This distinction specifically identifies the copy kept within La Mama’s artistic process and gives it a special place within the edition.
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Delivery and presentation
The work is printed on premium canvas, delivering precise reproduction of contrasts, deep blacks, intense reds, and graphic textures. It is not a paper print.
It is carefully rolled and protected before being shipped in a reinforced protective tube to ensure it arrives in perfect condition.
The additional 3 cm white border allows future mounting on a frame while preserving the entire composition.
The certificate of authenticity is provided exclusively by email.
⸻
About the artist – La Mama
La Mama develops a universe where portraiture becomes a true field of experimentation.
Her works combine references to classical art, contemporary culture, AI used as a creation tool, digital painting, drawing, and manual interventions with a graphics tablet. Some pieces play on anachronism and humor; others, like Scarlet Gaze, favor a more direct writing in which matter, gaze, and color become the main vectors of emotion.
Each composition is reworked individually to develop a strong image that is immediately identifiable, while giving the viewer the freedom to project their own interpretation onto it.
Scarlet Gaze by La Mama – A unique original artwork 1/1 XL – Artist’s Proof (EA)
A single glance is enough. Everything else seems to have been painted around it.
In Scarlet Gaze, La Mama deliberately moves away from the traditional portrait universe toward a more contemporary, nerve-wracking, and graphic form of writing. The female face appears through a succession of black lines, erased areas, and broad red interventions, as if several layers of the same image had been revealed and then covered again.
Yet the gaze remains perfectly legible. Intense, frontal, almost magnetic, it cuts through the apparent chaos of the composition and becomes its true anchor point. The hand resting against the face adds a more intimate dimension, while the red lips extend the work’s chromatic language.
Scarlet Gaze thus explores the boundary between portrait, drawing, and abstraction. A work built on the tension between control and spontaneity, where the image seems to appear and disappear under the traces of creation.
⸻
About the work
• Title: Scarlet Gaze
• Artist: La Mama
• Edition: Unique original artwork 1/1 – Artist’s Proof (EA), part of a limited edition of 6 copies
• Format: XL – 46 × 66 cm
• Border: Additional white border of 3 cm included
• Support: High-definition Fine Art printing on premium canvas – no print on paper
• Technique: Digital creation combining AI, digital painting, drawing, and manual retouching under Adobe Photoshop with a graphics tablet
• Condition: New
• Authenticity: Certificate of authenticity provided exclusively by email
• Framing: Artwork sold unframed and without a frame
⸻
A digital artisan’s craft
The construction of Scarlet Gaze rests on a digital creation process that combines the use of AI as a creation tool with extensive manual painting and digital retouching by the artist.
AI contributes to shaping the visual base of the work. From this base, La Mama personally continues the creation in Adobe Photoshop, using a graphics tablet, for several hours.
The composition then relies on a meticulous layering of visual textures, lines, and fragmented zones. The black lines evoke charcoal and preparatory drawing, while the broad red interventions recall more spontaneous painting gestures.
Some parts of the face are deliberately preserved, while others are covered, reworked, or partially erased to create a tension between precision and freedom.
La Mama works directly on the graphics tablet like a painter before a canvas. She manually adjusts volumes, lights, textures, contours, and painterly gestures, layer after layer, until the sought balance is reached.
The process notably includes digital painting, correction and reconstruction of certain areas, work on the face and hand, modification of materials, textures, light, colors and contrasts, as well as overall finishes of the composition.
AI is thus one of the tools used in the creative process, while the final appearance of the work also results from many hours of manual intervention and artistic choices made by La Mama.
In Scarlet Gaze, red acts as a true visual signature. It runs across the forehead, eyes, and lips before dispersing through the work as traces, tensions, and bursts.
The deliberately limited palette to red, black, white, and gray further enhances its graphic impact and gives the whole piece a strong, instantly recognizable identity.
⸻
About the edition
This exemplar constitutes the unique Artist’s Proof (EA) 1/1, associated with a limited edition of only six copies.
This distinction specifically identifies the copy kept within La Mama’s artistic process and gives it a special place within the edition.
⸻
Delivery and presentation
The work is printed on premium canvas, delivering precise reproduction of contrasts, deep blacks, intense reds, and graphic textures. It is not a paper print.
It is carefully rolled and protected before being shipped in a reinforced protective tube to ensure it arrives in perfect condition.
The additional 3 cm white border allows future mounting on a frame while preserving the entire composition.
The certificate of authenticity is provided exclusively by email.
⸻
About the artist – La Mama
La Mama develops a universe where portraiture becomes a true field of experimentation.
Her works combine references to classical art, contemporary culture, AI used as a creation tool, digital painting, drawing, and manual interventions with a graphics tablet. Some pieces play on anachronism and humor; others, like Scarlet Gaze, favor a more direct writing in which matter, gaze, and color become the main vectors of emotion.
Each composition is reworked individually to develop a strong image that is immediately identifiable, while giving the viewer the freedom to project their own interpretation onto it.
Details
Artist
La Mama
Sold by
Direct from the artist
Edition
Original
Title of artwork
Scarlet Gaze - XL - 1/1
Technique
AI, Giclée, Mixed technique
Signature
Hand signed
Country of origin
France
Condition
Excellent condition
Height
66 cm
Width
46 cm
Style
Conceptual art
Period
2020+
Sold with frame
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