Blue Velvet - 09-07-22 Print

Love for Fabrics Blue Velvet is my next one after the more comprehensive work on Geesje Kwak. Time for an elaboration of a previous drawing Solarised Roundism – 01-07-22. Not named after the movie but rather a reason to unleash my satin fetish. Not entirely coincidental I happen to have some of that fabric in my studio. It suits my regular model’s skin complexion quite nicely. You certainly agree with me that all things blue complement her orange ocres in a most smashing way. This is not my first project concerning solarisation in oil. Last one was Solarized Roundism – 07-03-22. It sort of kept lingering on in the back of my head I had to do another one. Not a cubist one or in my roundism style. As to fabrics in general, I share my love to depict them with people like Gabriël Metsu and Jan van Eyck. Accidental Solarisation This time I wanted to sort of have the process of solarization take over. Let its styling create the magic on my behalf. We artists often are faced with artistic challenges. What to do next? How to come to an attractive idea to put on linen? I guess the whole world is looking for a great idea or to steal it from those who found one. That is why I turn to accidentalism regularly. This time I simply let my image editor GIMP fool around with the curves in some of the session pictures I have of her. Surely such satin fabric when solarised would deliver me incredible bling-bling effects. So it did and I started from there. Furthermore I abstracted the folds just the level of recognizability. There are elements of roundism to be found but this time assisted by computerized algorithms.

Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper

Size:8 W x 12 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:13.25 W x 17.25 H x 1.2 D in

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