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.
Amazing, It looks gorgeous
ReplyDeleteSooo beautiful,, amazing art !!
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