Expressive Mixed-Media Portrait with Newspaper & Paint

A vibrant, expressive portrait of a man gazing upward with a sense of awe and childlike wonder. He wears oversized, bright orange-red glasses with fully tinted lenses that softly diffuse light. His face is rendered using bold, dynamic black sketch strokes—loose yet intentional—capturing raw emotion and character. The background is composed of layered, textured newspaper pages, clearly visible yet organically integrated. Energetic splashes of vivid blue and warm orange paint burst across the composition, adding motion and contrast. The artwork seamlessly blends realism with abstract expressionism, evoking themes of innocence, hope, imagination, and creative freedom. Painterly textures, high contrast, and an editorial fine-art aesthetic.