🎨 Dark Flower III - original painting + process
Memory's truth, because memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality, its heterogeneous but usually coherent version of events; and no sane human being ever trusts someone else's version more than his own.
-- Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
Dark Flower III, 2013
Acrylic on fiberboard
40 x 32 cm
15.75 x 12.6 in
Details:
Process:
Click here to see a slideshow of the process!
www.gric.at
It looks familiar - I thought it was older than that!
I love the process, working with a textural background that shimmers through the layers - something I myself prefer also, as opposed to the practice of the "purists" of mische technique who go to extreme lengths of hiding their brush strokes and flattening out layers with razor blades! (I had some heated discussions about this almost "religious" approach with Brigid Marlin).
This is a excellent tutorial! Pay attention, kids!
Interesting you quoted Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children. I did also about one of my drawings, quoting Snakes and Ladders - a very wise man ... and no wonder the Ayatollahs wanted him dead.
I try hard to think of other adjectives, but I just have to say "Wow, Your work is fucking amazing!"; excuse my French.
Thank you @twirble! :-)
That slideshow shows your process really well! I recognized a sort of 'vignette' effect at the end, really makes the subject pop! Gorgeous work @gric, there are loads of details to admire in the work.
Thank you @soyrosa!
Very beautiful~ Love the textures so much <3 The process step by step is very nicely presented, as usual, also !! <3
Thank you @veryspider!
Somehow I missed this one. Fucking amazing :D
Thank you @trumpman! :-)
extraordinary art.
I love this! The texture on the board worked perfectly with it too. But the futuristic component and the 'red eye' are so cool! Love it :)
Thank you @lynncoyle1!
You're welcome @gric 😅
This is fabulous! Thank you for sharing the process. It's illuminating. ^__^
Thanks @ariansilverwheel!
Love it!
Glad to hear that! Thanks @coquiunlimited!
Superb!
Thanks!