Open Minded Painting

"Open Minded" is a small hand painted canvas out of my on going series of abstract figurative female portraits (read more about the concept behind this style in my bio). I love how the painting evolves when being build up by so many layers, that also sometimes disappear again in the process. The base of the painting is build up by a mix of abstract painting and graffiti flavoured forms, put on with paint knives, brushes, markers and spray cans. Linking back to my creative past and influences like graffiti, graphic design, abstract art, street art and fine art. this canvas is one of the smallest pieces in this series I ever done, It was for a special exhibition where all the works where 40x50cm. For fun I also made a super small version of this canvas that is only 7x7cm This little canvas (including the mini easel) comes for FREE with the purchase of this canvas. These line driven abstract figurative portraits are all hand painted with me trying to paint the black and white parts and line work as tight and clean as I can. I like to challenge myself when I'm creating these pieces, trying to outdo myself. I’m actually editing curves and lines by scratching off paint with a surgical knife up to ten’s of a millimeter, basically trying to create a graphic image as clean and tight as a computer would. But all with paint and by hand. As I feel that art has a lot to do with artistry and skill next to creativity and originality. When working on top of a full color background as I like to do, it takes a lot of paint layers to cover it correctly and let it come out to the front of the canvas. All the white lines need to be precisely painted over 3 times to get a line as white and clean as you see in these pieces. It’s very time consuming but it definitely shows. The whole process of creating a canvas this size can easily take up to 2 weeks. It almost speaks for it self that you can only really experience a canvas like this in real life. Still I hope my pretty accurate photos and close ups can give you a good idea about this original one off canvas. This canvas comes with a black box frame around the painting. A black frame for me is almost part of the painting, as it communicates and continues all the black shapes/lines leaving or coming into the canvas. All canvasses are signed and finished with the same high quality satin gloss varnish that I have been using for the last 15 years. official signed COA is included.