| Model in red dress, crayon drawing |
Oilpastel at de Kunstlinie |
Hair fashion model, aquarelle
At an Aquarelmere painting evening 8 December 2011 I had decided to paint an aquarelle from a photo in a magazine about hair fashion. It was Hilde who brought this photo. The light in the photo was so interesting that I asked her if I could get it and also try to paint it too.
In many many paintings at some point I decide that “it is what it is” and it is a really good thing to stop messing around with a painting at some point. Here in this case I never got that feeling. I got many not so flattering comments about the painting already so I suppose publishing it in my blog is a daring act.
When I came home from the Aquarelmere evening I flushed off the painting with running water and started to put on a second layer of paint. It was not successful, at least not more successful than the first layer.
It is as if portrait and paintings of models are done right from a start or they are not done at all. I am not finished with this photo. At some point I will paint this again, from scratch.
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Jens Malmgren, A Swede in the Netherlands.
Software engineer, tinkerer, gardener, violinist, painter. Producer, DJ, parent, cat and sheep owner.
I write this weekly personal blog about life in the Netherlands and at the cottage in Sweden.
I create.