Showing posts with label 2018. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2018. Show all posts
Still life with Belgian andives: my first oil paintings in 1997.
In 1997 in the class of Marc Maet I started as a first year student at KASK. After an introduction Marc announced: you can start now. I had almost nothing: some cheap paint, cardboard and a still life that was also going to be dinner. During the afternoon I made two little paintings, after I finished the first I just started all over again.
I have a theory about how the first paintings made by an artist already contain the later style, at that time I was looking at these paintings and wondered what my later style would be. I assumed something with enlarged scale, a three part composition, light reflections... and what I didn't know yet: repetition.
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| Robbie Snelders 40x30cm oil on canvas 2018 |
I'm working on a series about Robbie Snelders, and the series starts with a very gentle portrait, only soft edges and warm colours. This little portrait is about holding on to who you love and care for. Not from photos or a live sitting model, I painted these from memory and this is how I would like to remember him.
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| Robbie Snelders - lemon yellow 40x30cm oil on canvas 2018 |
The very difficult part of painting, for me, is to be accurate and give a precise shape, line or colour.
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| Robbie Snelders Naples yellow 40x30cm oil on canvas 2018 |
portrait of a tree series
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| portrait of a tree 1, 40x30 cm 2018 oil on canvas |
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| portrait of a tree 2, 40x30 cm 2018 oil on canvas |
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| portrait of a tree 3, 40x30 cm 2018 oil on canvas |
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| portrait of a tree 4, 40x30 cm 2018 oil on canvas |
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| portrait of a tree 5, 40x30 cm 2018 oil on canvas |
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| portrait of a tree 6, 40x30 cm 2018 oil on canvas |
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| portrait of a tree 7, 40x30 cm 2018 oil on canvas |
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| portrait of a tree 8, 40x30 cm 2018 oil on canvas |
tapestry series, or how to paint the same portrait over and over again.
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| tapestry 1, 40x30 cm 2018 oil on canvas |
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| tapestry 2, 40x30 cm 2018 oil on canvas |
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| tapestry 3, 40x30 cm 2018 oil on canvas |
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| tapestry 4, 40x30 cm 2018 oil on canvas |
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| tapestry 5, 40x30 cm 2018 oil on canvas |
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| tapestry 6, 40x30 cm 2018 oil on canvas |
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| tapestry 7, 40x30 cm 2018 oil on canvas |
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| tapestry 8, 40x30 cm 2018 oil on canvas |
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| tapestry 9, 40x30 cm 2018 oil on canvas |
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| tapestry 10, 40x30 cm 2018 oil on canvas |
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| tapestry 11, 40x30 cm 2018 oil on canvas |
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| tapestry 12, 40x30 cm 2018 oil on canvas |
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| tapestry 13, 40x30 cm 2018 oil on canvas |
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| tapestry series, 40x30 cm 2018 oil on canvas |
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