Willem Den Herder

After a long time of free drawing and paint in watercolors I was searching for a new challenge suitable to my ideas of creating realistic images in big format.

Because of this I discovered the Dry-brush methodology giving me the possibility to give my works the illusion of a perfect monochrome image.

Current there are 3 different projects on going:

• Sculptures of the Greek mythology because I’m interested in.
• Images of young people from social engagement.
• Modern images based on collages made from ceramic sculptures made by Nicole De Pril.
Dry brush can be applied as well with oil paint as acrylic. In fact it is painting with a dry brush (Brush in paint, rub the brush on kitchen paper until almost clean and paint).
This process takes of course a long time.
The modern images are a combination of collages and painting with oil paint to become a coherent well-balanced image.

Some of the images are treated with Epoxy to give more dept and change the focus to the background.

5 Years academie Aalst

Kunst onder de Toren (18/9 until 2/10 2022)
Group exhibition with local artists in Haaltert



Artbox project Zurich (24/8 until 28/8 2022)
On screen show of “Medusa” and “Portrait of Rose”