Kamar de los Reyes
Kamar de los Reyes is an American actor known for his work in theater, TV, and films. I became a fan of his work on the ABC soap opera, One Life to Live. He played the character Antonio Vega with passion and conviction. It was an exciting time as a soap opera viewer because the show started to hire actors of diversity. A combination of various skin tones, great actors, and exciting story plots, the show became hot! Yes, more or less of the storylines at times were stereotypical, but you have to start from somewhere. Besides soap operas in general are stereotypical! The difference was that they mixed the veteran workers with new blood actors and combine with over the top storylines with flava!
Anyway, Kamar de los Reyes portrayal as Antonio Vega added the letter d to the word, drama! The soap opera decided to add to the storyline a musical performance of Kamar and his family. He grew up watching them, then eventually joining his Cuban born musician father in the percussion band. Kamar, his brothers and their father gave an electrifying and outstanding performance on this soap opera! No matter if he was acting or play a musical instrument, he performed with such passion as if he was on fire 🔥
Kamar, was born in Puerto Rico of Cuban and Puerto Rican (Mother) descent, is not only multi-talented he is handsome as well. I decided to paint a portrait of him. I read in one of his interviews that he learned to play the trumpet at an early age. Mr. De los Reyes came from a musical family so in his portrait, the actor’s face is the foreground while an image of him as a boy playing his trumpet in the background.
The palette knife technique with acrylic paint was applied thought out the painting.
It’s amazing how watching the works of a talented individual can be inspiring to someone else. It can spark creativity. That’s what happened to me! I wanted to express my gratitude by creating this portrait and it was mailed to him.
Thank you, Mr. De los Reyes, for sharing your incredible talents with long time soap opera viewers.
My mom
My sister
And me!
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| 11"x 14" Acrylics on board |
