This piece was made in celebration of Bad Bunny headlining Coachella in 2023, making him the first latino musician to do so in the festival! I used two bunnies dancing to represent his namesake and the floral used here is the flor de maga which is Puerto Rico’s national flower. I wanted to capture the melancholy vibe of Un Verano Sin Ti by making the background feel like a setting sun - the threshold between day and night. The material on his shirt was challenging to render, but it was a good exercise in abstracting detail to capture the essence of what I’m painting. This just means that I wasn’t aiming for photo-realism, but I wanted his shirt to feel woven like how it did in the reference image!
BENITO

Who is Nashid Chroma?
Nashid Chroma is a Toronto-Based Digital Pop Artist and his work explores the threshold between the Iconic and the Anonymous.
The compositions and visual motifs are inspired by each icon’s upbringing, influences, or the emotions that they evoke from their performances. Floral and geometric adornments are loaded with meaning to humanize the person in question, but they also visually abstract the portraits to feel disconnected and object-like.
Finally, Nashid uses bright saturated colour as an aesthetic anchor to bind his body of work into a cohesive collection. Chroma refers to the colourfulness of something and he continuously explores new ways to push the boundaries of colour in every new work he produces