Painting of fashionista Mayo Mellowness + Making of video

 

"Mellowness" Acrylic and oilpaint on woodpanel. 30 x 40 cm.
I've made a painting of Mayo Mellowness, I love her style, all the cute details she wears. She just had to painted! Here is her blog: http://www.fashionsalade.com/mellowmayoness/
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I've made a making of video with my new camera Canon 5D MK2. I'm going to make more video's of my new paintings.  I often get questions about my painting process and video's are a nice way to show that.

Hand close-up. The lines are drawn with a colourpencil.

Flower close-up. The white lines are drawn with a uni-ball SignoMitsubishi pencil. It's hard to find a nice white ink pencil.

 Layers and lines.

Shoes. 

Little owl. In the video you can see that I'm making a necklace of this little owl. (0:46)

She always wears the prettiest dresses. Wish I had a wardrobe like that.  The rough strokes look a little bit like a light flares from a distance.
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 Close-up of her shoes.

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"Care" sketch

"Care." Pencil, red pencil, acrylics and ink on Moleskine paper.

 If I'm going to paint this sketch, which I probably will, I want the blocks to be more transparent.
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 The focus is more on the eyes than on her mouth now, but when I'm going to paint it the mouth is going to get that attention.
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Ever since I was young I loved technical drawings, map and geometrical shapes. I'm going to combine it.

Never Neverland. New painting

Acrylics, oilpaint and ink on wood. 30 x 40 cm. 2012.
This painting is available as a print.
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 I painted everyting in transparent layers. I like paintings with different textures.
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 I added some thick paint to give some contrast to the painting.
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 The white outlines of the leaves are made with ink.
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Close-up of her mouth.
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I drew everything with pencil and painted the first layers in black and white. 

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"Cocoon" painting

 Oil and white ink on wood. 

40 x 50 cm. 

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Close-up
The model had a little gap between her teeth. I think that looks kind of cute.

Close-up of the branches.
This took me some time to paint. Because I drew everything directly on the woodpanel. It's easier the work from the back to the front but I painted the back,  painted the branches, painted the back again, painted the branches again. And oilpaint takes a few days to dry....So I'm using acrylics for the first layers of my next paintings.
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 I don't like to wear red. I don't like it in my house. But somehow I like it in my paintings.
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 I saw a picture of a moth with a skull on the back of the body. I thought it was nice to add this to the painting.
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New painting "Vibe" available as a print.

Oilpaint on wood. 40 cm x 50 cm. 

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I started with a serie of personal paintings on wood and this is the first one. I worked from a sketch from my sketchbook. The layers of red and dark interested me. I've drawn the figure with red and addes dark lines on top. 

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 Her hair looks like some kind of jelly, different than the sketch I've made. But I have to say that I like both versions now.

Poses like this always interest me when the head is a little upwards, but the most challenging one for me.

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