There is no whole face in this picture. No eyes looking back at you, no room around it, nothing to tell you where she is going.
Just a mouth, a set of lashes, and a pink so hot it stops being makeup and starts being a lamp.
The trick is that the lipstick is the light
Look at how everything else in the frame sits. The pinks and pastels around that slash of neon all look like they are catching it, the way a colour that loud actually behaves in a bathroom mirror at nine at night. Luna built the whole picture out of four to seven flat colours with hard black outlines, so there is no shading doing the work. The brightness is a decision, not an effect.
That is the Neon Havana thing she does. Comic-panel shapes, halftone dots you can pick out up close, screen-print registration left visible on purpose. Electric, warm, and completely unapologetic about it. As one critic put it, “a vibrant, seamless pop art statement that animates any space.”
What happens once it is up
It reads from the far side of the room, which matters. You see it from the doorway, from the hallway, from the couch. Friends do not ask about it politely. They walk straight over.
Good above a dresser, in a hallway, or anywhere you get ready.
Sizes and the price
A high quality print of a digital artwork on heavyweight satin paper. Satin because matte paper would swallow a neon like this and hand you back something flat; the soft sheen keeps the pink lit. Printed edge to edge with no white border, so nothing crops or dilutes it.
Portrait, and it arrives rolled in a tube, ready for a frame you already own or fine pinned up bare. 11×14 in (28 x 36 cm) is $49. 16×20 in (41 x 51 cm) is $79 and is the one most people choose. 18×24 in (46 x 61 cm) is $109. Made to order, up to ten business days plus delivery, free shipping in the continental US – and nobody else on your street will have it.
One honest thing
It is loud. If your walls are all soft greys and you like it that way, this will fight them and win. If your place is meant to say you are not boring, this says it before you open your mouth.
Take it home, or go see the rest of what Luna has made on printasso.com. Following her is the cheapest option – you just see the next one before everyone else does.
One is a piece. Two is a set. Three is a collection.
Almost nobody stops at one. A second work by the same hand turns a wall into a pairing. A third turns it into something you chose rather than something you bought. There are 3 other works by Luna Vasquez available.
