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This fashion painting was created on canvas in oil paint by modern portrait artist RKHercules. The photograph used as a reference was shot by Daniel Scheel, and was created for a Chanel spread. The model in the painting is fashion model Estella Boersma. Oil painting on canvas, with a touch of gesso and chalk Ready to hang Signed at bottom right Artwork comes framed. Frame is made from wood and painted black Size artwork: 50x50cm Size artwork + frame: 53x53cm About my paintings My work is inspired by beautiful models from the fashion industry that I combine with inspiring interiors My favorite subject is the female face. Most portraits that I create are built of 5-7 layers of oil paint with a foundation of gesso mixed with chalk. This is a technique that i taught myself. Back in the days I was drawing and painting ever since I was little and taught myself to paint just like the old masters. I spent days recreating an reference image but when I was finished, I wasn’t satisfied at all. Why? Because it looked just like the photograph. It was too perfect, boring, and didn’t add anything to the experience compared to looking at the photograph. This needed to change and I started experimenting. In this process I learned to let go more and more. While still using the multilayer process like the old masters, I gave my own twist to it creating scratches, paint blobs, splatters, thick and thing brushstrokes. Not only did my painting process become more fun, my artworks also started to become more and more interesting. Most interesting of all is that my beautiful models still were as beautiful. Looking at them from a distance you still see a beautiful woman, but coming closer it gets more and more interesting, symbolizing real life as well. This is what I want to achieve with my paintings as well. I want to inspire the viewer to get closer to anything; people, nature, the world. You have a first impression of everything, but it gets more interesting when you dive a bit deeper. Get closer, appreciate the details and most of all appreciate and enjoy the full picture. Enjoy! About the artist Born in 1989, RKH is a self-taught Dutch contemporary artist from Amsterdam. Her work is known for its striking female portraits, a subject that is inspired by her time studying the oil paintings of old masters. In her lifelong pursuit of art, Hercules developed her characteristic style that blends the old and the new; by drawing from the image of modern women today through Instagram models and the fashion industry, she joins these often contradictory depictions of women together, creating a timeless vignette of the modern woman.
This fashion painting was created on canvas in oil paint by modern portrait artist RKHercules. The photograph used as a reference was shot by Daniel Scheel, and was created for a Chanel spread. The model in the painting is fashion model Estella Boersma. Oil painting on canvas, with a touch of gesso and chalk Ready to hang Signed at bottom right Artwork comes framed. Frame is made from wood and painted black Size artwork: 50x50cm Size artwork + frame: 53x53cm About my paintings My work is inspired by beautiful models from the fashion industry that I combine with inspiring interiors My favorite subject is the female face. Most portraits that I create are built of 5-7 layers of oil paint with a foundation of gesso mixed with chalk. This is a technique that i taught myself. Back in the days I was drawing and painting ever since I was little and taught myself to paint just like the old masters. I spent days recreating an reference image but when I was finished, I wasn’t satisfied at all. Why? Because it looked just like the photograph. It was too perfect, boring, and didn’t add anything to the experience compared to looking at the photograph. This needed to change and I started experimenting. In this process I learned to let go more and more. While still using the multilayer process like the old masters, I gave my own twist to it creating scratches, paint blobs, splatters, thick and thing brushstrokes. Not only did my painting process become more fun, my artworks also started to become more and more interesting. Most interesting of all is that my beautiful models still were as beautiful. Looking at them from a distance you still see a beautiful woman, but coming closer it gets more and more interesting, symbolizing real life as well. This is what I want to achieve with my paintings as well. I want to inspire the viewer to get closer to anything; people, nature, the world. You have a first impression of everything, but it gets more interesting when you dive a bit deeper. Get closer, appreciate the details and most of all appreciate and enjoy the full picture. Enjoy! About the artist Born in 1989, RKH is a self-taught Dutch contemporary artist from Amsterdam. Her work is known for its striking female portraits, a subject that is inspired by her time studying the oil paintings of old masters. In her lifelong pursuit of art, Hercules developed her characteristic style that blends the old and the new; by drawing from the image of modern women today through Instagram models and the fashion industry, she joins these often contradictory depictions of women together, creating a timeless vignette of the modern woman.
This fashion painting was created on canvas in oil paint by modern portrait artist RKHercules. The photograph used as a reference was shot by Daniel Scheel, and was created for a Chanel spread. The model in the painting is fashion model Estella Boersma. Oil painting on canvas, with a touch of gesso and chalk Ready to hang Signed at bottom right Artwork comes framed. Frame is made from wood and painted black Size artwork: 50x50cm Size artwork + frame: 53x53cm About my paintings My work is inspired by beautiful models from the fashion industry that I combine with inspiring interiors My favorite subject is the female face. Most portraits that I create are built of 5-7 layers of oil paint with a foundation of gesso mixed with chalk. This is a technique that i taught myself. Back in the days I was drawing and painting ever since I was little and taught myself to paint just like the old masters. I spent days recreating an reference image but when I was finished, I wasn’t satisfied at all. Why? Because it looked just like the photograph. It was too perfect, boring, and didn’t add anything to the experience compared to looking at the photograph. This needed to change and I started experimenting. In this process I learned to let go more and more. While still using the multilayer process like the old masters, I gave my own twist to it creating scratches, paint blobs, splatters, thick and thing brushstrokes. Not only did my painting process become more fun, my artworks also started to become more and more interesting. Most interesting of all is that my beautiful models still were as beautiful. Looking at them from a distance you still see a beautiful woman, but coming closer it gets more and more interesting, symbolizing real life as well. This is what I want to achieve with my paintings as well. I want to inspire the viewer to get closer to anything; people, nature, the world. You have a first impression of everything, but it gets more interesting when you dive a bit deeper. Get closer, appreciate the details and most of all appreciate and enjoy the full picture. Enjoy! About the artist Born in 1989, RKH is a self-taught Dutch contemporary artist from Amsterdam. Her work is known for its striking female portraits, a subject that is inspired by her time studying the oil paintings of old masters. In her lifelong pursuit of art, Hercules developed her characteristic style that blends the old and the new; by drawing from the image of modern women today through Instagram models and the fashion industry, she joins these often contradictory depictions of women together, creating a timeless vignette of the modern woman.
This fashion painting was created on canvas in oil paint by modern portrait artist RKHercules. The photograph used as a reference was shot by Daniel Scheel, and was created for a Chanel spread. The model in the painting is fashion model Estella Boersma. Oil painting on canvas, with a touch of gesso and chalk Ready to hang Signed at bottom right Artwork comes framed. Frame is made from wood and painted black Size artwork: 50x50cm Size artwork + frame: 53x53cm About my paintings My work is inspired by beautiful models from the fashion industry that I combine with inspiring interiors My favorite subject is the female face. Most portraits that I create are built of 5-7 layers of oil paint with a foundation of gesso mixed with chalk. This is a technique that i taught myself. Back in the days I was drawing and painting ever since I was little and taught myself to paint just like the old masters. I spent days recreating an reference image but when I was finished, I wasn’t satisfied at all. Why? Because it looked just like the photograph. It was too perfect, boring, and didn’t add anything to the experience compared to looking at the photograph. This needed to change and I started experimenting. In this process I learned to let go more and more. While still using the multilayer process like the old masters, I gave my own twist to it creating scratches, paint blobs, splatters, thick and thing brushstrokes. Not only did my painting process become more fun, my artworks also started to become more and more interesting. Most interesting of all is that my beautiful models still were as beautiful. Looking at them from a distance you still see a beautiful woman, but coming closer it gets more and more interesting, symbolizing real life as well. This is what I want to achieve with my paintings as well. I want to inspire the viewer to get closer to anything; people, nature, the world. You have a first impression of everything, but it gets more interesting when you dive a bit deeper. Get closer, appreciate the details and most of all appreciate and enjoy the full picture. Enjoy! About the artist Born in 1989, RKH is a self-taught Dutch contemporary artist from Amsterdam. Her work is known for its striking female portraits, a subject that is inspired by her time studying the oil paintings of old masters. In her lifelong pursuit of art, Hercules developed her characteristic style that blends the old and the new; by drawing from the image of modern women today through Instagram models and the fashion industry, she joins these often contradictory depictions of women together, creating a timeless vignette of the modern woman.

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Estella | fashion painting modern wall art on canvas oil painting by RKHercules (2020) Painting

Art by Hercules

Netherlands

Painting, Oil on Canvas

Size: 19.7 W x 19.7 H x 1.2 D in

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This fashion painting was created on canvas in oil paint by modern portrait artist RKHercules. The photograph used as a reference was shot by Daniel Scheel, and was created for a Chanel spread. The model in the painting is fashion model Estella Boersma. Oil painting on canvas, with a touch of gess...

Year Created:

2020

Subject:

Portrait

Styles:

Portraiture

, 

Fine Art

, 

Expressionism

, 

Figurative

, 

Modern

 

Mediums:

Oil

, 

Gesso

, 

Chalk

, 

Canvas

 

Medium:

Painting, Oil on Canvas

Rarity:

One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:

19.7 W x 19.7 H x 1.2 D in

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Not Applicable

Frame:

Black

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Renske Karlien Hercules (1989) is a contemporary painter based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Renske is a prolific portraitist who is fascinated by the beauty of women and female faces. She used oil paints and hardware tools to paint abruptly and spontaneously in the beginning of her painting process and more traditional techniques to finish the paintings. Her approach relies on dripping, splashing and swooshing paint, revealing the physicality of the painting process in the final piece. Read more about Renske Karlien Hercules on her website.

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