The Same

"The Same"

Coloured pencil and ink on paper. 

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I moved a while ago and I had to throw a big pile of magazines. But before I did, I checked every page for the images I'd like to keep for reference or ideas. The ideas are endless,  I can daydream about it all day long, can't wait to start. 

But first I'm finishing some mannequin torso's for the Esprit store in Amsterdam.

Mannequin torso's.

Acrylic and oil on linen.

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Mannequin torso's.   

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Here a sneak preview of the 5 mannequin torso's I'm painting for the Esprit store in Amsterdam.

ESPRIT painting #3 Gent, Belgium

Red pencils and black ballpoint on paper. 

Sketches for the painting.

 ESPRIT. Acrylics and oilpaint on canvas, 170 x 230 cm, 66,9" x 90,6", 2012.

 Close-up hummingbird, acrylics and oilpaint on canvas.
Hummingbirds are my favorite birds, they are so elegant. 

 Close-up hummingbird.

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I will post some photo's soon of the environment in the Esprit store.
They did a great job with the new look. Totally love it.

ESPRIT painting #2 Gent, Belgium

 ESPRIT Gent #2. Acrylics, oilpaint and Posca-marker on canvas, 170 x 170 cm, 66,9" x 66,9", 2012.
This is the second painting I made for the ESPRIT store in Gent. It's going to hang in a big wallcloset next to the escalators.  I wanted to give everything a sweet, comfortable feeling with loose lines and transparent butterflies.

 Close-up. Acrylics and oilpaint  on canvas.
I worked with a lot of thin  Liquitex acrylic paint layers. It gives everything more depth I think.

 Close-up. Acrylics, oilpaint and Posca-marker on canvas.
I just wanted to give it a graphic touch by putting some graphic straight lines here and there.

 Close-up. Acrylics and oilpaint on canvas.
On top of the acrylic paint I smoothen everything out with oilpaint. I only did this with the first 2 paintings because it dries quicker and I freestyled the sketch right onto the canvas. So if I wanted to change things I could do that easily. 

Close-up. Acrylics and oilpaint on canvas.
The white outline are drawn with a posca marker. 

Here you can see a little bit of the process of ESPRIT #2.
This painting was a real challenge, because I had chosen for a light brown/beige background colour and little flowers, but it just didn't look how I wanted it to be. It wasn't as fresh as the first one, so I decided to change almost everything! They say "sometimes you have to kill your darlings" but this wasn't my darling...at all.

I changed the background with a minty green colour, but it was still too strong compared to the colours of the ESPRIT store in Gent, so it lighter again.